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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

In the last six years, Community Boost_r , ReStart Challenges , and Things Camp have used an open community challenge model. Chris Worman, senior director of alliances and community engagement at TechSoup, founded TechSoup Romania and was heavily involved in ReStart Romania and TechSoup's other open community challenges.

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The Networked NGO: Translating the Networked Nonprofit and 1-11-11 Club

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. Transparency is one of the ideas and, of course, we’ll be modeling this. This year my birthday (Jan.

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Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

Tech Soup

It refurbishes IT equipment to very high standards with a largely volunteer workforce, and it is a model program for responsible export of refurbished IT equipment in to developing countries. InterConnection is a nonprofit refurbisher that has figured out how to do two things very, very well. Global Impact of InterConnection's Programs.

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Turning City Data into Apps with Apps4Warsaw

Tech Soup

Because of TechSoup Europe's involvement in other app challenges, such as Restart Romania and Community Boost_r , the organization has experience in this work. The Apps4Warsaw team will use these learnings as they scale Apps4Warsaw and expand the competition model to other countries in central and eastern Europe.

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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

Tech Soup

Several models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus 2012 with system restore capabilities. To be specific, they are our partners in Australia , New Zealand , Germany , France , Italy , India , Poland , and Romania. Our average monthly distribution of PCs (and other IT devices) is now up to around 700 units per month.

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Birthday Campaign Reflection: Will Your Nonprofit Embrace Free Agent Fundraisers?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, some of new Romanian friends wanted to contribute, but couldn't because Romania wasn't on the list of accepted credit cards. Scott Henderson summarized the initial story as: Daniela is from Romania and has three kids, the youngest with Down’s Syndrome. In recent years her mortgage went unpaid and she’s lost her house.”