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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above. Ready to enter?

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New at TechSoup: Online Courses from Atomic Training

Tech Soup

Job training for at-risk youth, veterans re-entering the workforce, or even homeless or transitional populations. Eligible organizations can request up to 100 user licenses per year. Watch more than 70 free webinars on everything from social media, to marketing and outreach, to technology planning at TechSoup webinar archives.

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Going Against the Fundraising Grain: Three Unconventional Fundraising Tactics

NonProfit Hub

This idea can be expanded to include whatever crazy act you want: Hot Tamales for the Homeless, Cartwheels for Cancer, Trampoline Jumping for Toddlers—or any alliteration campaign fits your cause. Feel free to choose a different artist that might help you raise funds. no city license for a food festival).

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our free events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Decatur, Illinois: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Nonprofit Software. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. Getting the software set up is easy and it is free, using blogger. Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. Another example.

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Choosing the Right Free Technology in 5 Easy Steps

Tech Soup

A huge amount of that technology is available to you for free. But should you pursue every free solution just because it's free? Actually, no — successful organizations spend the time understanding the problem they are trying to solve and exactly how the free solution can (or in some cases cannot) help.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. I was like, "It's cool doing it," but I recognize that regardless of how hard I worked in the homeless shelter, that every day there were more and more people, who were forced to come to the shelter because they had nowhere else to go.

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