Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2016

Choose from desktops, laptops, tablets, servers, and accessories. Staff and volunteers at your organization or library can also purchase products through this program for their personal use and save up to 40 percent. TechSoup also provides discounted access to new hardware directly from Dell at up to 40 percent off.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A few weeks ago, the San Francisco Public Library hosted an event with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for citizen digital rights. When you have a conversation with a client, staff member, or volunteer, you want to ensure that it is completely confidential. What if it ends up in the wrong hands?

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

And they're doing this using the programming language Java on their laptops. With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. This post was originally published on the TechSoup for Libraries blog.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Would volunteering help? Q: Will it help to become a volunteer? It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. The hands-on experience of working with a nonprofit as a volunteer can also provide a valuable inside look at what fundraising entails. Many readers asked How do you become a grant writer?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Foursquare is essential for nonprofits that are location-based (such as museums, food banks, and libraries ). Foursquare does have a mobile website ( m.foursquare.com ) for laptop users, but the best way to experience Foursquare is on a smartphone. For example, here’s my first message: trottr.com/74qcww.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But then, your coworker calls and informs you that your donation page is broken, your organization's CRM just ate half of its entries, and the kitchen dishwasher is flooding… Guess you probably should pack along your laptop. Luckily, I backed it up before I left on my laptop, but I lost all the photos I took on my trip.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Store their contact info like email addresses and phone numbers and easily track donor interactions when they make a donation or volunteer for your organization. You can also log donor interactions, keeping track of when a donor makes a gift, volunteers their time, or attends an event. How does a CRM help nonprofits? Board management.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 29, 2010

As part of my holiday greetings this year, I would like to introduce you to two young people who have used Benetech’s Bookshare library to reach academic excellence and find the books that keep them engaged in their off hours. You can read our full profile of Steffon here. Cerebral palsy makes it difficult for Jessica to hold a book.

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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. Full-time volunteer and board member Mercedes Pellet told us, "We could not have afforded the Desktop Office Suite for 50 employees — Office 365 is a real blessing.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

Susan Tenby , Josephine Dorado , and I camped with our laptops, video cameras, resource guides, favorite game-building sites, and a bountiful new Nonprofit Resource Library in Second Life providing a playful space for participants to get hands-on with mixed reality technologies.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

Mobile Beacon — a nonprofit just like TechSoup — helps nonprofit organizations, schools, and public libraries that lack traditional Internet access, or have slow access or bandwidth constraints get connected both in the office and remotely. Choose from One of Four Devices. CLEAR Stick Atlas. CLEAR Spot 4G Apollo.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for seven years now. It made us think about ways we could bring good dependable low-cost computers to nonprofits and libraries. to scale up RCI in California. They’re a busy place.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

There has been some interesting mobile-related legislation news as of late that affects some nonprofits, charities, public libraries, and social sector organizations. TechSoup Global staff weighed in on what the FCC ruling means for both nonprofits and public libraries. Do you work with international constituents, volunteers, or staff?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Volunteer techies had set up an online people finder database, and relief agencies desperately needed computers so refugees in shelters could search for their loved ones. Actually the biggest need was for laptop bags to serve as suitcases for refugees. Their volunteers already do trainings in the libraries.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

On Tuesday, I'll be talking about technology planning for nonprofits and public libraries at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as a part of the Interactive Strategy Forum. Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. Includes slides.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

On Tuesday, I'll be talking about technology planning for nonprofits and public libraries at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as a part of the Interactive Strategy Forum. Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. Includes slides.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

Eligible nonprofits, charities, foundations, and libraries can now request Office Standard 2013 and Office Professional 2013 editions through the Microsoft Software Donation Program at TechSoup: Office Standard 2013 (admin fee: $24). Microsoft's Office Web Apps let your staff and volunteers create, edit, and share documents online.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for eight years now. We then pulled in the New Sector Alliance and some UC Berkeley Haas Graduate School of Business volunteers to really help us think through how to address the demand.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

On any given day, one of the organization's more than 150 volunteers will show up to the business, load the food onto a trailer attached to a bike, and then bike the fresh food to one of the 50 or so nonprofit organizations Boulder Food Rescue serves. Find our in-depth profile of Information Technology Exchange on TechSoup for Libraries.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. What this means?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2015

Cisco made $275 million in cash and in-kind contributions (like TechSoup product donations) to community organizations worldwide, and its employees volunteered 136,000 hours to support organizations in their own communities. " Why TechSoup Green Technology Product Donations Are Green. Now a bit about us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

If you look at the photo closely, you'll notice that Alex replicated her Mac sticker cover for her laptop. Next week, while in the UK and on a laptop that won't support the Second Life client (there are access problems), the Berkman Center will present a highlight of this course - a virtual trial ! Over fifty avatars attended.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2008

If you have a laptop, it may be less distracting to have your job search time at a café, or the library so that when you come home you don’t feel guilty relaxing. If you want to work at a nonprofit, check out their volunteer opportunities, or search on VolunteerMatch. Network, network, network. Make a fun to-do list.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. For instance, users can pin images for planning a conference, celebrating volunteers, or encourage their supporters to pin images related to a topic for. social change. Very, very cool, I must say. Anything I missed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I volunteered to be the Dance Cybrarian. Anyone could volunteer to aggregate links in their field on their server - and would be linked to the main library on Switzerland. We were all excited by the beginning of the Web in those days and there were communities and conversations. It was before the commercial web.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Because many of CUAV's volunteer bloggers were more knowledgeable about issues such as the trans-phobic tactics that were being used by the lawyers, they were able to address many issues that the mainstream media missed. Urban Sprouts , a school gardening program, allows volunteers, as well as staff, to post on their blog.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Start with the volunteers, start with the donors, no matter what amount they give. That’s what you need to say to somebody who is trying to give you donated Dell laptops. You’re like, “Wow, thank you for 12,000 crappy laptops, that your company no longer wants.” It’s a beautiful thing a new library.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Keep a library of training materials. We have never purchased a server and have no plans for one.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Keep a library of training materials. We have never purchased a server and have no plans for one.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

With a wireless network, your staff and volunteers can stay connected to the Internet anywhere in the office. We can work at our desks and then take our laptops to meetings without dropping our Internet connection or access to our email. These free you from having to be at home or at your desk to access information online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities. Sparked.com is an online portal of volunteers that have signed up to offer small amounts of time to complete Web-based projects requested by nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. For instance, users can pin images for planning a conference, celebrating volunteers, or encourage their supporters to pin images related to a topic for social change. Very, very cool, I must say. Anything I missed?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Their website templates are mobile-compatible, built on WordPress, and include recurring giving, event and volunteer management, email newsletter sign-up, and blogging. Ideal for staff and volunteer appreciation.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She just did a presentation to the Gates Global Libraries Working Group in November 2013 on the top tech trends for libraries. ” Khan Academy’s comprehensive library of content covers a full primary school curriculum plus classes in math, and science including biology, chemistry, and physics. John Merritt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What started as an ad hoc group of volunteers is growing into an impressive organization building out a platform that can be deployed for different purposes, from election monitoring to disaster relief. (Even in unintended and surprising ways ). Jessica Colaco places books in the iHub Community Library.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. In other words, it's the "bring-your-own-device" trend in which employees and volunteers supply their own computing devices.

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