Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2015

Next year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (March 23–25, 2016) will be in our own backyard — San Jose — so TechSoup will be there with bells on!*. E-Learning and Webinars — Tapping into Online Tools for Powerful Nonprofit Program Delivery — Becky Wiegand, webinar manager.

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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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Care2

MARCH 17, 2016

Another awesome 16NTC conference starts next week in San Jose. Every year we go through the program to help you focus on the top 10 sessions to attend. There's going to be some terrific panels aimed at nonprofit advocacy, fundraising, tech, and leadership teams. Digital Outlook: Ready, Set, Go… Wait, Where Are We Going?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

This year's #16NTC Nonprofit Technology Conference is in San Jose, right around the corner from TechSoup's San Francisco office. at our donor partner Adobe's San Jose office. Activating the Advocates at Adobe's San Jose office. And we can't wait to see you there! – 5:00 p.m.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2015

It's that time again to start the process of gathering session proposals from the NTEN Community to help inform the program for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC) in San Jose, California on March 23-25. We look forward to their contributions and insights throughout this process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This year I facilitated several labs, including several for the Knight Foundation Arts Program to learn about the local arts ecosystem in four cities, including Philadelphia, San Jose, Charlotte, and Macon.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

This is a great question and one that is always at the forefront of our minds as we put the overall program together. Members of our Community participating in the CFRE program received access to 102 Approved credits and 93 NFR-only credits at no additional charge at the 15NTC. You can find more details here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

We're also seeing more nonprofits take this approach for fundraising, program development, and social change. Envision San Jose 2040 (There's even a platform to support the virtual charrette called " wiki planning ". I just wanted to capture a couple of examples that came to me this week, well, through crowdsourcing.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

Panelists included: Danielle Siembieda, former community engagement and special projects manager for ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network in San Jose, CA. Maura Lafferty, an independent communications consultant working with classical musicians and performing arts organizations in San Francisco, CA.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

This San Jose, CA-based organization provides technology and services to agencies that work directly with the homeless in their community. While such a program currently exists as a government benefit, Lifeline, many homeless or severely low-income people haven't heard of it or aren't using it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

And, then they asked me to design something … I agreed as long as we all went into it with the mantra – it’s an experiment, not every social media experiment (and capacity building program for that matter) is a success for all participants – some might bomb. They agreed. Program funders watching the presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

For example, the City of San Jose is trying to save money by turning off the street lights in the city. Carson talked about the impact of government cuts in California – and that it is going beyond effecting those in lower income neighborhoods and reaching a broader swath of individuals.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Adobe’s software donation programs through TechSoup help organizations design powerful print collateral, create video accounts of their successes, build their web presence, and more. Grant Programs from the Adobe Foundation. The Foundation's community grants program has two focus areas: Arts and Creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Photo from San Jose Library. Many corporations like Target or AMEX have well-established programs for engaging their employees with local nonprofits. This week (April 18th to 25th) is National Volunteer Week in the US. Chances are if you work or volunteer for a nonprofit you already know that. right where you work.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2015

TechSoup and its members have been central to the launch of BetterWorld Wireless and subsequently our ramping and scaling up of Mobile4All — a partnership with San Jose-based Community Technology Alliance, Downtown Streets, and a host of other corporate and nonprofit partners. Thanks to TechSoup Members for Driving Our Success.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2017

So our whole staff went to visit another public market the developer had started: San Pedro Square Market in San Jose. In the plaza and the museum, we're working with diverse partners, on diverse programs, to welcome diverse visitors who like to connect through creativity and culture. The food was mid-range in price.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This concept can be applied to effective social media — having social media be both strategic, laddering up to your program or communication goals as well as using the tools effectively. These incremental chunks that can be laddered up to program or communications goals. Examples: Wildlife Direct and Brooklyn Museum.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

DonorsChoose has launched a new program called BloggersChoose which allows bloggers to search through mini-grant proposals that school teachers have submitted to DonorsChoose, and ask their readers to fund them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2006

Courtney Macavinta, coauthor of RESPECT: A Girl's Guide to Getting Respect & Dealing When Your Line is Crossed , talks about her experience as a GFC mentor on her blog : One of the most amazing experiences I get to have week after week is coaching Girls For A Change Team 13 at Overfelt High School in San Jose.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Guest Post from Debbie McKenzie, Development Manager for Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. . If all of your membership levels are in one membership program, the discount ($21 in our case) code can be applied to any level – a few clever folks will figure this out.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Of course, the MacArthur people make a big deal out of the lack of obligation or reporting ("you'll never have to talk to us again," said Daniel Socolow, the head of the program). These awards are based not so much on past achievements, as an expectation that you will do something exciting in the future. But, I don't feel that way!

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The team is also building modules on top of this core platform that will compress data into text messages to send electronic medical records, create real-time maps to visualize health programs, and connect clinics to a revolutionary mobile phone-based diagnostic tool. At clinics that serve about 1.2 The Process.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 14, 2006

Kellogg Foundation Sponsors Attendees SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- TechSoup, the nonprofit technology Web site, today announced that the Philanthropy and Volunteerism Program of the W.K.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Consider the Victoria and Albert Museum's "rapid response collecting" program , which started in 2013. "Now" comes off as disingenuous and irrelevant if done wrong. And now is not tomorrow. It is not the long term. It is just now. This was impossible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

In 2001, I started at the Digital Media Studies Masters program at the University of Denver. When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

Both in attendee feedback and in our own debriefs, we''ve identified a number of points that we want to formally share back out here to gather additional feedback and share some of our thoughts as we look ahead to 2016 (in San Jose, March 23-25). We are proud to have a program that is filled with great sessions and speakers ( WIN ).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up a few times a year and host excellent programs on a variety of topics. I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). Not all viruses go viral.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. I'm planning a full slate of programming, from museum tours to build classes to design reviews with the pros.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

This week, thoughts on Chapter 12 of Elaine Gurian’s book Civilizing the Museum , "Threshold Fear: Architecture program planning." The San Jose Museum of Art has drastically changed its approach to security, replacing guards with visitor services staff who provide interpretation and monitor visitor actions in a less threatening manner.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 22, 2012

Kelli Lee I recently graduated from Foothill College with an Associated Arts degree in Business Administration and will be attending San Jose State University in the fall. As I am disabled, I have used several programs that Bookshare/Benetech provides for their consumers.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

However, the San Jose-based nonprofit, Community Technology Alliance (CTA), had a hunch that cellphones might be a surprisingly good place to start getting employment and becoming self-sufficient. If all goes well, Mobile4All would like to scale the program to more communities in California and across the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

The San Jose Mercury News just published my op-ed today entitled Build great companies, then help build a great world. Bill Coleman, founder and chairman of BEA Systems of San Jose, and his wife Claudia, have backed the University of Colorado Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities.

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John Kenyon

JUNE 26, 2017

It involved four domestic violence service providers near San Jose, California. Each organization has its unique cultural norms, history, assets, weaknesses, programs, people, politics, leadership, networks, etc. This was the project the developed the SafeChat Silicon Valley crisis counseling service.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2010

The occasion for getting to know Adobe better came with the launch of Adobe's new wind turbines at their headquarters building in San Jose. At last count TechSoup now has 41 donation or discounted product donors for nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

NTEN / San Jose, CA / $650. The annual SPECTRUM Conference features programs by top professionals on all facets of nonprofit communications and development. Join us at the 2016 Washington State Nonprofit Conference to explore ways human centered design can connect people, transform programs and advance causes. CSPRC / St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

This week, as BlogHer , launched a special campaign with GlobalGiving to raise money for lifesaving programs for women around the world, here is an interview with Donna Callejon who is the Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving. Tell me about you - how did you end up working in global philanthropy?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

A few highlights: Cecelia Garibay talked about audience development at the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum. Basically, the idea is that most organizations learn in a single loop that connects programs to results. Now, when you look at results, you see if you need to change not just the program but the beliefs behind them.

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