Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. They have no infrastructure beyond that, which is why cloud computing is regarded as green IT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. So, the Sharing Foundation has continued to use our method of getting donated laptops in the US, refurbishing them, and getting them to Cambodia. DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. I blogged it and was initially very excited! Tharum was disappointed too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your numbers do not grow from month to month, then something is terribly wrong with your content strategy (posting/sharing/sending the wrong content) and fundraising campaigns (not publishing an e-newsletter or using the wrong “Donate Now” service). Online Donations. Under the green row, add your fundraising metrics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your numbers do not grow from month to month, then something is terribly wrong with your content strategy (posting/sharing/sending the wrong content) and fundraising campaigns (not publishing an e-newsletter or using the wrong “Donate Now” service). Online Donations. Under the green row, add your fundraising metrics.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

TechSoup member Braided River has used a TechSoup donation of Adobe Creative Suite to astounding effect. A grant from Lannan Foundation allowed Braided River to donate 10,000 copies of the book to libraries and indigenous communities across the country. " "We wouldn't be able do it without TechSoup donations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

TechSoup member Braided River has used a TechSoup donation of Adobe Creative Cloud to astounding effect. A grant from Lannan Foundation allowed Braided River to donate 10,000 copies of the book to libraries and indigenous communities across the country. " "We wouldn't be able do it without TechSoup donations.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 23, 2020

Email marketing can rapidly improve your nonprofits digital marketing strategy and help you gain donations. Connect With Supporters and Increase Donations. A massive 94% of internet users use email , so it’s the perfect way to reach out to your supporters and secure those donations! by Olivia Warnes. Automated emails.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

We've hit something of a benchmark in this successful program: we've distributed a little over 50,000 refurbished devices through RCI — including laptops, monitors, servers, and tablets. Don't take just any donated computer! Green IT greentech Recycled and Refurbished Computers' Learn how to avoid the junk.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

To celebrate, I've rounded up some of the latest news in green mobile technology news. 11,000 were laptops. eCycle Best concluded that American consumers seem to be getting wiser about throwing away phones, tablets, and laptops. Now you can get a new mobile plan and donated smartphones through TechSoup!

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Its staff members are intensive users of an Adobe Creative Suite TechSoup donation. We had many excellent submissions to the contest.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Places like TechSoup and the National Cristina Foundation put out the word that donated computers were badly needed in Louisiana, and they came by the truckload. Actually the biggest need was for laptop bags to serve as suitcases for refugees. All the equipment went out at no cost because of financial donations.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

For awhile now, we at TechSoup (parent organization to the MaintainIT Project ) have been working with our corporate partners to open more donation programs to public libraries. In the past year, software donations from Symantec , NOZA , and others have become available to public libraries for the first time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

For example, A Green Mountain Coffee Roasters sampler of Organic Breakfast Blend, Organic French Roast and Organic Sumatran Reserve is $26.95. Donate a Flock of Chickens, Share of Tree Seedlings, or Knitting Basket of Llamas and Sheep. Give a Child a Laptop, Get a Child a Laptop. holiday gift green donation Fair Trade

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

The study also estimated the supply of PCs coming from the noncommercial refurbishment sector and also the potential for corporate donations of PCs. Our survey of large companies found a robust interest for donating PCs. How Green Is Refurbished IT Equipment? There were no costs incurred by Microsoft for the donation.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Our product donations are well-known, as are our articles, blog posts and community organizing. We engage any and all high-tech companies that may be interested in donating or discounting their software, hardware, tech support, or cloud services. The briefing was called "Turning E-Waste into Green."

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2009

By contrast the Dell/Goodwill Reconnect partnership offers a similar service, provides donation tax credits, and does have reuse built in to it. Best Buy's Greener Together program has a $10 charge for accepting TVs 32 inches and under, computer monitors, and laptops, however, in exchange they give you a $10 Best Buy gift card.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

I'm thrilled to say that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Cary Creative Center , or "C3," an organization working to save materials from the landfill by turning them into beautiful art. She requested donations of both Microsoft Office and QuickBooks for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. An increasing number of public libraries are discovering TechSoup donations, but few are maxing them out like Waukesha Public Library in Wisconsin. HART for Animals.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In a tough economy, it also wanted to offer opportunities to get involved, participate, and donate at many different levels, but also not forget its core base of supporters. When there, volunteers set up a laptop that guests could use to make a donation via CC’s web site. In 2009, Red House 2009 generated $23,000 in donations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2015

I'm happy to announce that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Boulder Food Rescue , an organization working to eliminate food waste in its community and across the country. Now imagine, before taking a bite, you scrape nearly half that food into the trash.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

They do this work so capably that Microsoft Community Affairs has commissioned them on multiple occasions to refurbish and send their computer donations to NGOs and schools all over the world. Most of the computers that the organization works on are donated by local companies and residents. InterConnection has also worked with the U.S

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The library also offers free WiFi, a laptop checkout program, and 30 public access computers. Maggie Buckholz told us that the library is probably more restrictive than many libraries, which had an effect on the MultiPoint Server system we donated. Software Donated: Windows MultiPoint Premium 2011 with 8 Device Cals.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

How Green Is RCI? They're urging everyone to donate their discarded laptops to InterConnection as part of this work. All of our RCI-refurbished PCs come with the Windows 7 operating system, and all come with Office 2007. All models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus and also with system restore capabilities.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Joy and Lane Fernando worked to together to set up the new 5-station donation: Server Computer: a Core 2 Duo Dell Optiplex Desktop. 4 Plugable USB Docking Stations. 1 USB Hub. 5 keyboards. 5 Refurbished LCD Monitors.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Joy and Lane Fernando worked to together to set up the new 5-station donation: Server Computer: a Core 2 Duo Dell Optiplex Desktop. 4 Plugable USB Docking Stations. 1 USB Hub. 5 keyboards. 5 Refurbished LCD Monitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

I've packed everything except for my laptop, the wireless router, all seven Avett Brothers CDs, and the beloved coffeemaker. I routinely bookmark and comment on environmental news, green blogs, and stories about sustainability and alternative energy technology. s Cause and see the donation for themselves without ever leaving Facebook.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In this blog post, I'll compare costs and energy usage for a WMS setup versus a conventional setup in which every user has a laptop or desktop computer. WMS can also use legacy hardware, such as old laptops or desktop computers. These two CALs, licensed per user station, are available as a single donation through TechSoup.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 30, 2022

Green and brown are often used for wildlife and nature nonprofits. Donation Page. Donation pages are great to link to in promotional materials, social media posts and bios, and on your informational web pages on your website. Be sure to include your nonprofit’s cohesive branding and digital style on your donation page.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Windows MultiPoint Server is regarded as an energy-saving green technology. Hub devices used to connect users to a MultiPoint server can be USB hubs, traditional thin clients, multiport graphics cards, or even repurposed laptops or desktops. Windows MultiPoint Server Donations for Nonprofits and Libraries Available through TechSoup.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

Microsoft's Windows MultiPoint Server is very useful in these environments, and refurbishers now have three places to go to get donated and discounted MultiPoint Server licensing: TechSoup , The Microsoft Registered Refurbisher Program , and Microsoft in Education. TechSoup's Windows MultiPoint Server Donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

The venue, a historic theater with small table seating, made it feel more like a cafe except everyone in the audience had a laptop or hand held device for blogging, taking notes, and tweeting. Adam Zand who I first met at Boston Social Media Breakfast event last holiday season where we helped leverage a donation for the local Food Bank.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

It is also available as a donation product on TechSoup for eligible nonprofits and libraries. These two CALs, licensed per user station, are available as a single donation through TechSoup. All of them are available as donations on TechSoup for eligible nonprofits and libraries. The are: Office Pro Plus 2007.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She cites the City of Oakland California’s Open Data Platform that make over 50 datasets viewable and understandable to the public including ones on crime, city infrastructure, parks and recreation facilities, and green businesses. It is also one of Lucy Bernholz’ promising emerging technologies that failed to take off in 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

The program takes cash donations but it also links each hospital to an Amazon.com Wishlist where you can directly purchase games and hardware the staff at that hospital would like to provide to kids who are staying in the hospital. DaveTV has a campaign to support the One Laptop Per Child effort. Zonbu has announced a laptop version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Personal Fundraising and Open Source Deductions Article in the Seattle Times about personal fundraising, Hoping To Help Darfur $1 at a Time that focuses on Darfurwall.org that has successfully raiased $30,000 in very small donations - $1 per person. It's called Moulin.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

We also work with some socially responsible businesses like Green Mountain Coffee Roasters; we are working with Annie's Organic right now, and so a broad mix of people who are trying to make the world a better place. Now, we've have it all in our laptops and we can make anything we want to make. Britt: How did you get started?

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