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How to create your new nonprofit’s first budget

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Mark off a couple of blocks of time on your calendar to research things like supplies, materials, and equipment online or call local vendors to find out what things cost. Licenses & permits (charitable registration fee) Miscellaneous (bank fees, etc.) Put that number in your budget.

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Windows 8.1: Bridging the Gap Between Keyboard and Touchscreen

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For example, if you're writing a grant proposal, but need to refer to the grant's Website, you can "snap" Internet Explorer 11 side-by-side with Word. Search is now universal, meaning it taps into Bing Smart Search, SkyDrive, and your local hard drive to provide you with results. does search. With Windows 8.1,

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Non-Boring #Tech4Good Meetings for Nonprofits

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"Meetings" come in diverse and innovative formats like Mississauga, Canada's Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo; Pangani, Tanzania's Social Media Surgery ; and Birmingham, United Kingdom's Summer Tech for Good Social in a local pub. Join us at your local group. It will be fun — we promise!

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Costs in the Cloud - Renting Software vs. Buying

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How Software Perpetual License Ownership Works. Most of the software that nonprofits and libraries now get from TechSoup is under a perpetual license that means the software belongs to you forever. There are many terms and conditions that each software package has that are spelled out in user license agreements.

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Calling all Faith-Based Organizations! Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

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The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). religious organizations Local impact map faith based organizations'

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NetSquared Celebrates Progress and Looks Forward to 2015

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TechSoup’s NetSquared community organizers connect nonprofits with local technology experts. October’s Safer Internet theme month inspired 22 events, helping nonprofits work more safely and securely online! Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Image Name: Author / License. HTML EXAMPLE.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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It allows charities to get to your applications and files from virtually anywhere there is Internet on many kinds of devices - PCs, Macs, and mobile devices of various kinds. Big Data and the Internet of Things. Like my colleague Jane Zhang at TechSoup Canada , I pegged the Internet of Things (IoT) as something to watch this year.

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