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Tech Soup Blog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
Did you know that September is National Preparedness Month? Photo: Robert Thomson , CC license. . . Agility Recovery Solutions, a disaster recovery specialist , together with FEMA, is hosting a series of weekly webinars this month.
Amy Sample Ward
MARCH 30, 2012
The company stated that they will not be selling the dolls at stores, but instead will donate them to children's hospitals and other hospitals, as well as the National Alopecia Areata Foundation." " roundup best bookmarks casestudies decisionmaking facebook global howto license list lists metrics ngos nonprofits photos postalicious resources socialchange socialmedia strategy tools wireframe
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Tech Soup Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
Jason Samuels is the director of innovation and technology at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Minneapolis. His budget projection showed that moving NFCR's Exchange and SharePoint servers to Office 365 would save several thousand dollars compared to the costs of software licenses and consulting help to implement platform upgrades. NCFR is a nonprofit professional association for the multidisciplinary understanding of families.
EveryAction
AUGUST 21, 2018
Many major nonprofits, like Planned Parenthood, the National Audubon Society, and the United Nations Foundation, have “made the switch” to EveryAction, driving our company’s 2018 nonprofit license revenue to increase by 85% over the same period last year. I have great news to share. Many of you know that 2018 has already been a landmark year for EveryAction, our team, and our clients.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 18, 2022
In 2001, the National Association of State Charity Officials (NASCO) released a set of recommendations called the Charleston Principles to supplement fundraising laws that had not kept pace with technology.
Cloud 4 Good
JUNE 22, 2022
Cloud for Good is seeking an Information Technology Lead to build the internal technology department within the organization. The IT Lead will be responsible for overseeing and managing Cloud for Good’s internal technology infrastructure and IT Security. This role will report to the VP, People + Operations. It will develop an IT department leadership, vision, and direction to support the growth and scaling of business priorities, objectives, and security requirements.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. So, in the meanwhile, we will need to rely on licenses: permissions agreements. I’ve been to national meetings in the U.S.
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
APRIL 29, 2008
Pipes (1) Mobile , nptech New report on wireless technology for nonprofits released 04.29.08 | 3402 5 Comments [link] New+report+on+wireless+technology+for+nonprofits+released 2008-04-29+18%3A01%3A10 Allan+Benamer A new report called Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use , was released today by the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation. Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation.
VisionLink
APRIL 9, 2020
Visionlink is providing pro bono licenses for COVID-19 response to each state and territory, access to agencies and state governments, as well as training and technical support for response.
Non Profit Quarterly
MARCH 2, 2022
But unions have had difficulty organizing platform economy employees because of their classification as independent contractors, which excludes them from protections under the National Labor Relations Act. Photo by Frederik Trovatten.com on Unsplash.
Givinga
MAY 25, 2021
According to the National Philanthropic Trust, Americans donated nearly $450 billion in 2019 , a 5.1% Our Philantech cloud is available to partners through a SaaS licensing structure. Fintech solution provides partners with technology-fueled charitable giving capabilities, unleashing the power of modern philanthropic giving.
gokubi.com
JANUARY 30, 2008
Facebook Linked In Twitter Home About Home Massive turnout on the Dem side Massive turnout on the Dem side Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 January 2008 11:50 Written by Steve Wednesday, 30 January 2008 11:50 Matt Stoller has a fascinating article in the Nation about how the massive turnout in this Democratic primary season is aided by new organizing techniques and technologies. WordPress is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License
Cloud 4 Good
MARCH 25, 2022
Monitor Cloud for Good technology inventory and related supplies; assist with technology, licenses or supply procurement as needed? Cloud for Good is looking for a dynamic Operations Coordinator for our growing People and Operations Team. The Operations Coordinator will work directly with the Finance Manager to support or own daily tasks as well as special projects.
gokubi.com
MARCH 18, 2008
Facebook Linked In Twitter Home About Home Obama on race in America Obama on race in America Last Updated on Friday, 25 December 2009 09:50 Written by Steve Tuesday, 18 March 2008 08:51 Barack Obama commented on the state of race relations in America today, delivering a compelling narrative of where we are as a nation, and a clarion call to action to take a major step toward achieving the vision of the enlightenment–equality of all people on earth. That is true genius of this nation.
Robert Weiner
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
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Saleforce Nonprofit
OCTOBER 7, 2021
One of these nonprofits is Bipolar UK, the only national charity in the U.K. Like all nonprofits, we were able to use the 10 free licenses that Salesforce.org donates to eligible organisations, which is a huge help.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 22, 2013
It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture. When I ask the owners of intellectual property to license their creations to my nonprofit, for free, for these markets where they have already decided that they can’t make money, they say yes: 80% of the time!
Cloud 4 Good
JANUARY 5, 2022
We raised our investments in materials and resources, improving access to licenses like Gearset, LucidChart, and Slack that help increase collaboration in a distributed workforce. 91% of Goodies are actively engaged, compared to a 39% national average, per Gallup.
Saleforce Nonprofit
JULY 2, 2021
Perhaps not as well known as Yellowstone or Yosemite, public lands like the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Jefferson National Forest, and the Clinch River State Park sit within a globally significant biodiversity hotspot, home to more than 100 species of Greatest Conservation Need.
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
JULY 14, 2020
Establishing a business of a national scale is quite a task. Licensing of various types is another job in the hand. New businessmen dream about operating with great volume and make a name for the businesses.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2010
o We’d love to serve the community of people with print disabilities in your country, with English and Spanish today and we hope your national languages in the future o We’re planning on launching an Arabic language service later this year • As wonderful as these permissions are, several years of work has led to less than 100 publishers making these agreements.
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
JANUARY 28, 2018
The plan is to make the recommendations that came out of the final dialogue publicly available online, to provide a starting point for a regional or even national conversation about data and evaluation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 18, 2015
RollBack Rx Professional, 5 User Licenses (Donated). RollBack Rx Professional, 10 Additional User Licenses (Discounted). Drive Vaccine, 5 User Licenses (Donated). Drive Vaccine, 10 Additional User Licenses (Discounted). Image 4 : The National Guard / CC BY. The Rock isn't going to save San Francisco after a cargo ship-moving, bridge-splitting, tsunami-causing earthquake … but cutting-edge technology might.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 16, 2011
For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries. Wonderful as our licensing partnerships with publishers are, they are not enough to make accessible most of the books that people with disabilities need to have equal access to education, employment and social inclusion. •
Tech Soup Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2015
Flickr is one of our go-to places for Creative Commons- licensed images. It allows you to search for photos with a Creative Commons license for noncommercial use and images that you can modify, adapt, or build upon. You can search by topic, location, type, author, license, and source. Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is nothing less than the portal for all public domain and open-licensed digital content. Image 7 : Pennsylvania National Guard / CC BY-NC-ND.
Bloomerang
MAY 6, 2021
“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. California became the first state in the nation to have a law go into effect concerning privacy. .
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 30, 2010
James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community. Since I’ve been working on IP policy and licensing on Bookshare, I was quite interested and had ideas of how to work with companies to apply their IP to social needs. I also got to talk to Pablos because he knew Brian, and ask about ideas that might be worth licensing for social purposes.
Tech Soup Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
The new lending library project is funded by the National Science Foundation. Applications will be made available on a one-user-per-license at a time basis, just as they are on public access computers in the library. The Kansas City Public Library. has devised something new in the world of digital inclusion. They have developed a way for anyone with a Kansas City public library card to use expensive professional applications like those from Adobe and Microsoft without owning them.
Tech Soup Blog
NOVEMBER 25, 2014
My 12-person nonprofit, National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Minneapolis, began work on a Office 365 implementation in mid-April last year, and by late-May our email migration was complete. Licensing. I found out at the NTC Conference that nonprofits can mix and match Office 365 E1 and E3 licensing. E3 licensing is $4.50 per user per month, whereas the simpler E1 licensing is free for qualified organizations. We decided to go with E1 licenses.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 1, 2010
that makes Bookshare possible) and open licensing terms, so that people who the market will fail to address get the benefits of our incredibly rich and expanding knowledge base. One famous example of this approach is the affordable licensing and thus wider availability of drugs to combat HIV/AIDS in the developing world, which has literally saved the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. I’m on the plane heading back to the U.S.
Tech Soup Blog
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
TechSoup also offers an FAQ with information about downloading, installation, licensing, and more. Build Change designs disaster-resistant houses and schools in emerging nations and trains builders, homeowners, engineers, and government officials to build them. Evidence Action designs safe drinking water dispensers for developing nations. TechSoup is proud to announce our newest donor partner, Autodesk.
Tech Soup Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
As a part of the disaster campaign, we've been blogging about disaster planning and recovery over the past few weeks: Free Webinars: National Preparedness Month: Did you know that September is National Preparedness Month? Pangea Foundation's Disaster Relief Communications Hub: ReliefPoint is "a real-time communications hub for national disaster relief coordination and information dissemination." Photo: Random McRandomhead , CC license.
Tech Soup Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2017
His hundreds of covers for the Saturday Evening Post magazine alone are a national treasure. Frank says, "Most of our enterprise software is procured via TechSoup, which makes it affordable to license so many servers! Frank told me that the license he gets from TechSoup includes every option his museum needs. You don't get phone support with the charity licensing, so you need to be comfortable Googling for answers and working in the Veritas community support forum.
Connection Cafe
DECEMBER 7, 2015
Let’s look at a theoretical nonprofit IT organization: GoodHealth has a National Office and is an affiliation of 100 local nonprofits. GoodHealth (acting as the National IT Buying Office) has just secured an excellent price on a nationally respected piece of fundraising software. The negotiated price includes licensing and technology that will apparently scale with diminishing incremental costs. This means: Negotiate licensing and platform costs.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 20, 2010
Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology. National governments should encourage the creation of enterprises with explicitly social objectives. Series of TV or print articles on these social applications, or an award for the tech transfer office that made the best socially responsible licensing deal.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Bookshare is in continual contact with the Association of American Publishers to maintain the publishing industry’s input into its activities as an authorized entity, routinely submits copies of its standard user licenses, policies and conditions to AAP’s General Counsel for comment, whenever there is any significant change in them, and works closely with the publishing industry to ensure continuing compliance with Section 121 and the regulations thereunder.
Tech Soup Blog
MARCH 16, 2010
Through the Salesforce.com Foundation product donation program, qualified 501(c)(3) organizations are able to receive a donation of 10 Salesforce CRM licenses. We'll also be joined by Wen-Hua Yang of NAPAWF (the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum) who will share some best practices, tips, and success stories about how she's implemented the Salesforce donation at two small nonprofit organizations.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 30, 2009
Submitted by Robert Rosenthal, of VolunteerMatch After the President’s call to serve during National Volunteer Week, the VolunteerMatch team held lengthy discussions about how the best way for us to help engage a new generation of volunteers inspired by the new President’s words. Today we have proudly announced that we are releasing our entire database of volunteer opportunities to outside developers under a Creative Commons license to expand the non-commercial use of our free service.
Tech Soup Blog
JANUARY 14, 2015
After he requested the product renewal through TechSoup, "It was only a matter of clicking the 'Renew' link and copying and pasting the new product license number." " He said he didn't require any installation assistance as the "instructions that TechSoup provides along with the licenses are very clear and simple." This change will make the program the nation's first 24-hour drop-in program for homeless LGBTQ youth.
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