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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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In October 1998, the first National Suicide Prevention Conference was held in Reno, Nevada. Thanks to the Reno Conference, the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Suicide was issued in 1999 and the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention followed in 2001. Agencies from within the U.S. However, the U.S.

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Harnessing Office 365 to Send Every Child to Preschool

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OvidiuRo's story began in 2001, when Maria Gheorghiu and Leslie Hawke were helping poor women from the ghettos of Bacau, a small city in Romania. Since 2001, OvidiuRo's team has grown from 8 people to 20 staff members and 404 volunteers in local teams. How It All Began: Helping Poor Kids Attend School.

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Harnessing Office 365 to Send Every Child to Preschool

Tech Soup

OvidiuRo's story began in 2001, when Maria Gheorghiu and Leslie Hawke were helping poor women from the ghettos of Bacau, a small city in Romania. Since 2001, OvidiuRo's team has grown from 8 people to 20 staff members and 404 volunteers in local teams. How It All Began: Helping Poor Kids Attend School.

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Raise More Money This Year: Network for Good Can Help

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In 2001, tech giants AOL, Cisco, and Yahoo! In 2007, a member of our staff had the opportunity to lead a session on fundraising at a major conference. Allison Schwalm is Marketing Engagement Manager at Network for Good and a new guest blogger on the TechSoup.org blog. We're Network for Good and it's a pleasure to meet you!

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Microsoft's Ecohero: How Sean Nicholson Is Saving the Earth

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In 2001, Microsoft responded to requests by refurbishers for some remedy to this problem by creating the Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher (MAR) Program. This made the refurbishment field the belle of the ball at the latest E-Scrap Conference I attended in Orlando this fall. Microsoft piloted the program in the U.K.

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