TechImpact

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Tech Impact’s ITWorks is a free and demanding 16-week IT training program that is working to permanently change the lives of young adults. We depend on support from the commnity to keep this program going. Of the students that are accepted into the ITWorks program: 100% of students work an internship upon graduation.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Our students are unemployed or underemployed. They emerge from the program with industry-recognized certifications, hands-on experience, and the professional skills and network they need to compete for jobs in the technology workforce. 160 ensures one student can complete the A+ certification. He has since been promoted.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

We found out about them through our Show Your Impact Program in which nonprofits describe how they’re using technology to support and further their work. They’ve made good use of TechSoup’s donation programs. Finally, I liked the story of Candlelighters' Childhood Cancer Support Program in Ottawa, Canada.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. Dear Ellen, Your gift could not have come at a better time to guarantee a seat in our program to a deserving student! Photo or video of how their gift is being used.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

A lengthy article in the Wall Street Journal highlights the effect that the One Laptop per Child Initiative has had on the pc industry. The result is that low-cost laptops are being sold to schools in many developing countries today, but surprisingly few are OLPC units.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

For example, you might explain that a $100 gift can purchase five new coding workbooks for your after-school program, and a $500 gift can buy a new laptop for a student. This is an effective strategy to use on your online donation form. Ask based on a range of giving related to their current giving level.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." the laptop]. A Sickening Discovery.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." the laptop]. A Sickening Discovery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

I met Dan when I was 20 and running a program for immigrant families. Broke and living in community housing, I came home one evening to find my room burgled, my laptop and cash savings gone. When I graduated, I was shocked to find out that Dan had forgiven all my school loans. That’s the what Dan taught me, at least.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

From accountants to college students, from administrators working in construction offices to legal professionals, many are considering new career directions to gain more meaningful work and to serve the greater good in their communities. When I look back, this was one of the most sophisticated fundraising programs in Texas!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." the laptop]. A Sickening Discovery.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The Santa Barbara Independent Tech Mogul Brings Laptops to Kellogg Kids: "D.J. Perry’s third-grade class at Kellogg Elementary School in Goleta buzzed with excitement on Friday, December 5, as students clicked away on their new XO-brand laptops.

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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. There's no real money involved, nor is it a real lemonade stand.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For example, if your photo and accompanying story show a young person in your program delivering groceries to an older person, go with, “Older people count on our students to bring their groceries.” Mary fell in love with Nancy Drew books as a child and is excited to see her students improve their reading skills. I sure don’t!)

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We need hands on deck, so having to close our volunteer program was a challenge for us—emotionally, losing such a large part of our community—but we also had to find a way to keep them connected so that they would come back when our doors reopened. “I Volunteer programs are some of the most front-facing operations of nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors. I met Dina Masri, a talented engineering student and change maker at the University in Jordan. Rami Al-Karmi, N2V Lab.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Through the acclaimed Stock Market Game (SMG) program, a program of the SIFMA Foundation, schools, and after-school programs grades 4 – 12 learn about investing through a virtual, state-of-the-art capital markets simulation.? There are i ndividual and corporate programs available to participate! . SeenIt Build?the?most?powerful?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

When all was said and done, we received a 2005 seed-funding grant from Full Circle Fund and launched the Refurbished Computer Initiative program. At the time, we had a very limited selection of offers, comprised only of desktops and laptops, most of which had Pentium III processors (you get the idea). to scale up RCI in California.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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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. Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about education programs in Second Life. Teams of Harvard Law students enrolled in Evidence will serve as the lawyers. I learned a lot.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Digital Education: With 91% of students around the world and 32 million in the US alone currently out of school, companies are stepping up to address the learning gap that is intensified by the inequities of the digital divide. Many companies are addressing the lack of internet and computer access through their CSR responses.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

Get mobile broadband access for your organization with a donated fourth-generation (4G) modem or wireless hotspot from the Mobile Beacon Donation Program. Organizations eligible for the Mobile Beacon Donation Program can request one of the four devices (admin fee: $15) per TechSoup fiscal year. Choose from One of Four Devices.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Once you’ve mastered this part of the process, you can expand your search outwards and evaluate donors who tend to support specific programs. In order to see success with your major gifts program, you need to appoint a leader. Without a leader for your major gift fundraising efforts, your program will flounder. Why Implement It?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

I’m going to give you all the same facts, and I want each of you to write the ‘lede’ of the story if it was going to appear in the student paper.”. In this case, students care far more about getting a day off school than a teaching conference. A ‘lede’ is the first sentence of a new story. Put their needs front and center.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Students are among the most technology savvy people I know. And increasingly this includes High School students down the street. 7) Partner with a corporation to get their laptops and other equipment coming off lease. Many corporations lease their PCs and laptops, often over two years with a $1 buy-out.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Assistant director John Klima explained: "We get a ton of usage on our public PCs, and the RCI program is going to help us continue to provide this valuable service to our community." The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Hey, this is our yearly fundraiser, won’t you gives us money to help current students have a great experience at our university? Valencia College Foundation fine-tuned their ask down to a fund that would provide scholarships to first generation students. Looking to make peer-to-peer fundraising a part of your giving program?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

Yes, I hope they will contribute the $10 so we can win the $50,000 (which will certainly help us make improvements to our computer school and the Sharing Foundation's many other programs), but I am also want feedback about how to improve a computer program in a rural village in a developing country with really slow Internet.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” With this in mind, and my trusty laptop timer working as a moderator, I will now begin. Instead of struggling to get your program off and running. .” The final two topics will be focused on “Securing your LMS with emphasis on data security and establishing proper permissions.”

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

Now is the ideal time to take advantage of our programs so you can start fresh and get even more donations and discounts when July arrives. If you haven’t been taking part in TechSoup’s programs over the last 12 months, you might be surprised at all of the new offers! TechSoup’s fiscal year is about to end in June.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

PC Rebuilders and Recyclers (PCRR) is our newest RCI refurbishment partner and is now providing enhanced tech support to our program. I'll explain more on that below, but here's some background on the RCI program. Arrow Value Recovery has been with us since the beginning of the RCI program when they were called Redemtech.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Here’s how it works: Let’s say you urgently need to replace six laptop computers for students in your program. You mention to one of your best donors about the laptops and that replacing them isn’t in the budget but it really needs to be done so the students can continue learning. Of course, they say “Yes!”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Launched with a few thousand dollars and a couple friends around her kitchen table, the Sharing Foundation's programs include education, health care, clean water, vocational training, and support of an orphanage. ???When The Sharing Foundation employs Cambodians to run its programs in country. s education programs. Thank you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Each funder gave an overview gave an overview of their program. Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. Partners in Learning program -- gave stats.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Recruiting applicants to a fellowship program. org, and five Unity College students embarked on a bio-diesel powered road trip to encourage President Obama to restore solar paneling to the White House roof. Another alternative is to ask people to fund your hotel stays or donate their points in various hotel reward programs.

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