Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

It's not our first time advocating for charities and libraries in the hallowed halls of the U.S. TechSoup Global's mission is to do whatever we can to provide the IT resources and knowledge that charities, NGOs, and libraries need to operate at their full potential. Image: American Chemical Society.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2015

One is for consumers interested in donating laptops and phones. How Individuals Can Donate Laptops and Phones. InterConnection now offers a free mail-in donation program allowing anyone, anywhere in the country to donate a working laptop, smartphone, or tablet by simply mailing it in to Interconnection. Image 1: InterConnection.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2014

Our July 1 free webinar, Hidden Gems: Tech Donations for Faith-Based Organizations , is covering some of the same territory: to tell you about some lesser known donation programs available faith-based organization and some that may even extend to your parishioners.The free webinar will be on Tuesday, July 1 at 11 a.m. Mobile Beacon.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2017

Like any nonprofit, we like to take advantage of the product donations that are on offer for charities, churches, foundations, and libraries. This tag allows us to search and quickly find all images and logos we and our partners use for TechSoup product donations. Getting Control of Our Images. Image 1: Glenn Hirsch.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

From 2005 to 2012, telework growth in charities has been 87 percent. As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Image Credits: Image one: Working from the beach courtesy of Citrixonline via Flickr Creative Commons. Image two: Polar vortex courtesy of Elvir via Flickr Creative Commons.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

We put together some charity donation form best practices to help you raise more money for animals! In fact, you can easily add your logo, custom images, and videos with Qgiv’s fundraising platform. Tech Can Help You Raise More . Do you think they’ll go grab their laptop or switch to their desktop?

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

There has been some interesting mobile-related legislation news as of late that affects some nonprofits, charities, public libraries, and social sector organizations. Microsoft released its Surface Pro 3 this week, a tablet poised to "replace your laptop." Images: Microsoft News, Wikimedia Commons, Adobe. Tablet Tales.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2016

Back in 2006, we started the RCI program to supply charities and libraries with good, low-cost warrantied computers that would stand the test of time. Consumer Reports does great reliability surveys on laptop fail rates. New Apple laptops have fail rates from 7 to 9 percent each year. Image: TechSoup. Browse RCI catalog.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

Murtis Taylor Human Services System is a charity that provides health and human services support to people in need in Cleveland. It contains three things: A laptop computer. Bob Cerny buys used laptops from BBC Technology Solutions in Cincinnati for around $250 each. Images: Logo / Murtis Taylor Human Services System.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Our Refurbished Computer Initiative has provided charities and libraries with top quality refurbished desktop and laptop computers at competitive prices and with free end of life recycling for many years. Images: Greener IT Challenge. GreenTech Microsoft computer refurbisher electronics recycling greener IT challenge'

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. Here were some the baffling hot new things that charity techies and geeks for good were buzzing about: Blogging and the blogosphere. What Is Web 2.0? Google Maps.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2015

Better still, you could donate it to Goodwill or a nonprofit refurbisher , so a deserving charity or person can make use of it. Images 1 and 2: Sage Sustainable Electronics. Image 3 : Benjamin Nagel / CC BY-SA. Finding the Real-World Value for All Your Old Devices. It provides current valuations for. desktop computers.

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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. Refurbishers in emerging markets will start to see a higher supply of laptops for refurbishment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. What looks good on a mobile device often looks even better on desktop and laptop computers, and all email marketing services offer responsive email templates. The open rate for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s welcome email is 62.1%

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Images 1 and 3: Braided River. Image 2: Boulder Food Rescue. Image 4: Orangutan Outreach. Image 5: RE-volv.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. Pinterest is a social media photo-sharing website that allows users to create online image collections around specific events or subjects. The images are called pins and collections are called. social change.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

The biggest incentive for most nonprofits to accept Bitcoin is that most major payment processors, like Coinbase , don't charge any processing fees for donations to 501(c)(3) nonprofits and charities. Image : Alexander Kirch / Shutterstock. If a donor chooses to donate one bitcoin (equal to $241.59 " Early Adopters.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2011

The economic turbulence of the last few years has caused a marked increase of demand for the services of most charities and public libraries even as it has limited the ability of the donor and tax base to continue to support at normal levels. A recent survey. of nearly 2,000 nonprofit executives bears this out. A recent survey.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2015

I'm happy to announce that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Boulder Food Rescue , an organization working to eliminate food waste in its community and across the country. Images: Boulder Food Rescue. You might think you'd never do that. America: A Wasteland of Plenty.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2013

reveals a host of smart new features that our nonprofit, charity, and library members will all find more useful. Your survey resizes automatically to adjust to desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone screen dimensions. Images and video: FluidSurveys. ?. Release of FluidSurveys 5.0. Change can be good—really good.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2014

I've been warning about the end of XP for months now , urging nonprofits, charities, and libraries to upgrade as soon as possible. Images: Shutterstock. To be fair, there are some naysayers, like Larry Seltzer and his Top 10 excuses for sticking with Windows XP , but even that is a parody piece. Time to upgrade.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2016

TechSoup offers many donations and discounts for religious charities , such as churches, synagogues, and mosques. Here is our handy guide to the 10 biggest donation programs for religious charities at TechSoup, with 2 bonus less well-known programs that are very popular for religious charities. Protect Your Charity from Viruses.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Every now and then, we like to predict what's on the tech horizon. There are now lots of laptops available that are less than $200 — like HP Streams, Acer Aspires, and too many Chrome books to count. Charity Crowdfunding Will Get Crazier. What they said may surprise you. No Internet of Things (IoT) or big data.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As summer starts, we’ll report on what happened to Facebook Causes, some big developments in cloud computing including the launch of Salesforce1, a big partnership between Salesforce and Microsoft that bodes well for charities, and the launch of Box.org, free cloud storage for nonprofits. The BRIDGE to the 21 st Century.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Even if it’s something as simple as holding a local 5k charity run, asking your supporters to conquer some kind of physical or mental challenge to raise money can yield great results. Include Compelling Images Including compelling images that evoke emotion is a simple but effective way to make your forms more impactful.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy new infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends for the sector. They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

Citizenship licensing offers $6 Windows 7 and Office Basic 2007 for computers that go to schools, nonprofits and charities, libraries, and low-income families anywhere in the world (although Office can’t go to schools). Using Old Laptops As Client Devices With Windows MultiPoint Server. Image: Courtesy of Microsoft.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech for Good 2.0 A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Share As Image :: shareasimage.com. e-Newsletter [see right column]. Zeen :: zeen.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

List compiled by Heather Mansfield , Editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good and creator of the 101 Digital Marketing and Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits blog and webinar series. Storrito enables users to create Instagram and Facebook Stories on desktop/laptop computers. Storrito :: storrito.com. See also Asana.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It's fun to compare against TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions from the start of the year and Capterra's Biggest Nonprofit Technology Trends of 2015 from March. Facebook, still the world's number one social media site, made available a "Donate Now" call-to-action button for all charities. " Mobile.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014. Nicole Wallace.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Create Amazing fundraising thermometer blends in perfectly with their minimalist black and white site theme, as well: The website also conveys a sense of community and stewardship with its donor call-out section By adding filters to each image, Create Amazing stayed on brand, highlighting their attention to detail and strategic design approach.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

I've picked out a few mobile trends that nonprofits, charities, and libraries should keep an eye on in 2014. This column, by the way, will be a monthly feature on mobile technology for nonprofits and charities. The Galaxy Note Pro seems to make good use of the laptop-sized display with enhanced multitasking and remote PC access.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

His big prediction was that 2012 would be a breakout year for mobile computing in nonprofit tech. Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers. Andrew Cohen of Forum One did one called 12 Big Trends in Nonprofit Technology for 2012.

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