Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The Macbook Air has been around since early 2008, and frankly struggled in its first years with poor sales and technical problems. Are you buying them or planning them into your tech budget? Ultrabooks are light, thin, laptop computers with long battery life and that cost under $1,000. Photo: kenworker.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

When I left, SDFF had a staff of 36 and a budget of $4.5 In 2008, with support from the California Emerging Technology Fund , we established a formal digital divide program and, with the help of our community partners, connected more than 10,000 previously disconnected homes to broadband Internet.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

In 2008, volunteer Casey Sorensen became PCs for People's first executive director. "As a nonprofit, we understand budgets are always tight, so we're thrilled be part of a new refurbishment partnership with TechSoup. Going National. He introduced significant innovations.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

For instance, 2006 saw a surge in corporate giving , while the recession year of 2008 had a gloomy giving outlook. Since 2008 corporate philanthropy has either been flat with no increase in giving or modestly increased, almost exactly corresponding to the growth patterns of the U.S. The forecast for 2013 is for giving to slow down.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2015

It was involved in an episode of the PBS cooking show "Edible Connections" with Chef Beni Velazquez on how to cook healthy foods while on a budget. More than half of Clark County's schoolchildren are poor enough to be enrolled in free or reduced-price meal programs. People there are still recovering. Tony Caufield sums it up.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

She explained that the publishing industry changed drastically around 2008 during the economic recession. "We do as much as possible on the smallest budget possible. We work really hard with a very little budget to have the highest impact possible." I think that we will make it because of that.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

Using an event such as the 2008 financial crisis as a backdrop, he hopes to be able to back-test his hypothesis against the volumes of data generated around the same time. In addition, while security is a higher concern for users of technology than other groups, there has yet to be a nimble solution to address the numerous attack vectors.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. I didn’t expect to be hired so quickly, and in February, I started working as a Development Director with an organization with an operating budget of over $1 million dollars.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Joy was previously the librarian in a large, five-county district library system and when she took the La Conner position, she found that she had no IT support on site and a limited budget. For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Joy was previously the librarian in a large, five-county district library system and when she took the La Conner position, she found that she had no IT support on site and a limited budget. For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system.

Software 40

Software Insurance Insurance Budget 40

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Not only must you replace staff members who leave (assuming you have budget to do so), but you also lose knowledge about your organization as staff walks out the door. About the Author Mark Becker founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

She explained that the publishing industry changed drastically around 2008 during the economic recession. "We do as much as possible on the smallest budget possible. We work really hard with a very little budget to have the highest impact possible." I think that we will make it because of that.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2016

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. We ask them to consider dedicating at least 1 percent of their grantmaking budgets to strengthening the sector.

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Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Planned giving isnt subject to the volatility of government budgets or the whims of political tides. The Data Speaks for Itself During the 2008 financial crisis, bequests and other forms of planned giving remained relatively stable compared to annual donations. And being secure includes your job. Build stability. Gain donor confidence.

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Tom Ahern

AUGUST 7, 2023

Anecdote: With other tax-payers, Simone and I dutifully attended town budget meetings in the early 2000s where one persistent question was: "Given the rise of the internet, do we really need to fund all these little libraries?" But, like many charities, they don't emphasize their NEED; they want to talk about achievements instead!!

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

JANUARY 29, 2025

This should not be a surpriseas President Obama famously stated in 2008: elections have consequences. Most nonprofits are engaged in human service delivery; grants for such purposes are not in the bullseye and are unlikely to become a budget target. ” when distressed. I doubt this will happen. [see

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The most recent election that seemed historically consequential was 2008, but I’m old enough to remember 1980, which was a true watershed. We sat in stunned silence as this dude ticked off the many proposed budget cuts to federal discretionary grant programs (our “mother’s milk”). Boy was I wrong.

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