Candid

MAY 18, 2022

About a month ago, Candid was tagged in a social media post from someone who had visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The current thematic section, “ Who Pays for Education? ,” examines Americans’ debates over public and philanthropic funding for education. Can you tell us about the Foundation Directory book

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 28, 2010

Libraries :: New York Public Library. Tags: FourSquare Mobile Technology. For the 10 types of nonprofits listed below, adding your nonprofit as a venue to Foursquare needs to quickly be moved to the top of your To Do List: 1. Museums and Art Galleries :: Museum of Modern Art. Food banks and homeless shelters: St.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. We’ve been doing this for close to five years and have accumulated over 2,000 publications. Connections between the publications are more important than strict regional boundaries. Geography is fluid, though.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Public school teachers post project requests that range from a $100 classroom library, to a $600 digital projector, to a $1,000 trip to the zoo. Tags: challenge fundraising donorschoose education social media. Our website provides an easy way for everyday people to address this problem.

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CauseVox

MAY 6, 2021

When writing an automatic donation receipt for a 501c3 organization, you should include: Personalization using merge tags, which automatically pull a donor’s name, organization info, and transaction info into the receipt. Example #2: Loma Public Education Fund’s ‘KEEP! Loma Public Education Fund’s Keep!

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Some of the solutions they reviewed are available discounted our donated for nonprofits and public libraries via TechSoup Stock including: eTapestry , Telosa products, and GiftWorks. Tags: TechSoup. The guide is available for free here.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2010

Does your nonprofit or public library need better technology? This webinar is best for people brand new to TechSoup or whose organization or library may be registered but are just not sure how to get started. TechSoup's donation programs are open to eligible nonprofits and public libraries. Or sturdier hardware?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

At TechSoup for Libraries' July webinar , we featured two libraries that had wildly successful crowdfunding campaigns. The Northlake Public Library, in particular, got an incredible amount of media attention for its fundraiser. Find a News- or Viral-Worthy Angle. Connect with Neighborhood Bloggers.

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DipJar

JUNE 24, 2021

The price tag was $5,000, but with some research, Wendy learned there was a discount available to nonprofits. Similar in structure and purpose to library Friends groups, the Friends of Dallas Animal Services creates opportunities for the community to support an essential institution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Back in the early 1990's, during my "gopher mistress" days, I could use this Internet protocol to create lists of lists of public files on servers on the Internet. It made it easy for me to navigate through public files available on the Internet in a linear way. Your lists can be public. Tags: twitter.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress About a month ago, the Library of Congress put two sets of photographs (about 3000 images total) up on Flickr. In the case of this image, there are 44 user-supplied tags, 5 user-supplied notes, and 8 user-supplied comments.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Creative Commons Search is another search engine that searches multiple sites simultaneously, including Flickr, Open Clip Art Library , Pixabay , and several more. Many of them are public domain. You can also search files by tags. Most of its vast archive is public domain and well labeled. How TechSoup Uses Images.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Originally published at TechSoup for Libraries. He argues that when hiring public computing trainers, the primary criterion should be community-mindedness, not technical expertise. He argues that when hiring public computing trainers, the primary criterion should be community-mindedness, not technical expertise. read more.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

In our quest to build a solid foundation for nonprofits and libraries to understand how cloud computing is likely to affect us, we have now completed our GreenTech Initiative Green Side of Cloud Computing campaign. Our final offering of the campaign is an article entitled Cloud Basics for Nonprofits and Libraries.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

It's an exciting time for public computing access in San Francisco. Check out the Surdna tag at TechSoup for Libraries for more information.). Tags: Community Tech Centers Digital Divide News. TechSoup is currently driving a study of BTOP-funded projects.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

We've got a new Microsoft product available here at TechSoup that might be useful for libraries, organizations with computer labs, or other multi-user computing environments: Windows MultiPoint Server 2010. Nonprofits and libraries that have public computing labs, for example, may find that this is a great donated product for their purposes.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Kyle Hall is the creator of an open-source library tool, Libki Kiosk Management , which integrates with Koha to manage patron time on public access computers. Thanks again to both of the great presenters for sharing their expertise during last Thursday's webinar on open-source libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Finally, this comes from a library techie, but I'm sure that nonprofit techies might agree with the advice, " How To Keep Techies Happy " Marketing, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation Somehow there is a connection between these areas and David Wilcox puts his finger on it with his posts ( here , here , and here ).

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Create Web how-to materials for a library’s computer cluster. Teach the values of the open Web to other public benefit organizations. Tags: events mozilla mozillaserviceweek opensource service volunteering. Help install a wireless network at a school. Refurbish hardware for a local computer center.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2009

Brenda loves the Pulaski County Public Library's Literacy Bell, a simple way to celebrate children's literacy. Stephanie announces a free webinar next week, Technology Grants for Libraries 101. Tags: Web 2.0 From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Tools Using the Web and Internet.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2008

The solution is a design pattern library, a place where Yahoo! is making some of them public. You can access a limited design pattern library here. s process for creating their internal pattern library in this paper. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out design professional development. And now Yahoo!

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Forum One

MAY 5, 2010

The unconference was about connecting government managers and staff, public engagement experts, online tool developers, and citizens to encourage shared insights, decisions, and actions in government. My colleague, Andrew Cohen and I were interested in learning about the impact of the recession on public participation. Public Library.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2009

If you're a librarian or your nonprofit supports libraries, you should know about an online workshop happening tomorrow, March 3. During this seminar, you'll have the opportunity to ask questions about the 23 Things system and learn about libraries that have successfully implemented the program. Tags: Web Building Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Originally published at TechSoup for Libraries. As Sarah mentioned a few weeks ago , TechSoup is currently working on a project funded by the Surdna Foundation to survey the landscape of BTOP -funded public computing initiatives and compile resources, lessons learned, and best practices.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2010

All of the products below are available as donated or deeply discounted tools for nonprofits and/or public libraries for a small admin fee through TechSoup. A Few Tools to Help You Work from Anywhere: read more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

I would class this as TVI (nearly identical) plus additional provisions creating a similar exception for schools, libraries and archives. Right now, it’s not in great shape: • No global exception norm, but voluntary agreement by rightsholders (that’s today’s status quo), with model agreements that are terrible from the nonprofit/library side.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

Then bow your head and say a silent "tak" (that's "thank you" in Danish) to the creators of the Living Library. What is the Living Library? According to their website : The Living Library works exactly like a normal library – readers come and borrow a 'book' for a limited period of time.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2009

Elliot wonders what the end of Encarta means for libraries and education nonprofits. Elliot points out a new guide from Public Citizen about avoiding libel in your writing. Chris offers some simple, realistic ways in which libraries can save money. Tags: Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Donate Your Brain.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2009

Chris reports that TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative is now open to public libraries. Stephanie announces an upcoming webinar about TechSoup's services for libraries. Tags: Web 2.0 From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Tools Using the Web and Internet.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

12 noon Pacific, to celebrate the amazing contributions from volunteers, contributors, steering committee members, staff, and friends of the many libraries which have worked with the project since its inception three years ago. Congrats to all of the public libraries, staff, volunteers, and contributors to such a successful project!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2010

For the third consecutive year, Adobe and TechSoup Global have joined together to award three $1000 cash grants plus Adobe software to nonprofit organizations and libraries that demonstrate outstanding or innovative use of Adobe products to increase their impact and further the missions of their organizations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2010

This could be your nonprofit organization or public library. Tags: Event Multimedia & Graphics Software Web Building. Contest winners will receive a $1,000 cash grant plus their choice of one of Adobe's CS5 Premium software packages.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

In our quest to shine a light on shine a light on what's going on in green IT for nonprofits, libraries, and really anyone running or working in a small to medium sized office, we'd be remiss to not call some attention to a new book by UK-based author, Mark O'Neill called Green IT for Sustainable Business Practice. Tags: GreenTech.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Acteva might be the right event registration solution for your nonprofit or library! Through TechSoup, Acteva Plus event registration, ticketing, and payment management solutions is available for donation to nonprofit organizations and public libraries for a $50 admin fee.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2010

If you're interested in requesting Office when it's available, you might want to make sure your organization or public library is registered with TechSoup and review Microsoft's donation policies. Tags: Acquiring Technology Office & Productivity Server Applications Software Tech Planning Web Building. Watch for more to come!

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2009

In a post yesterday on our MaintainIT blog , Tena Hanson, the Director of the Milford Public Library in Milford, Iowa discussed how she and her peers used these tools in the face of decreased travel budgets and increased need for collaboration with libraries across the state. Tools Web 2.0

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