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The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show: Not Many New Green Gadgets Under the Sun

Tech Soup

GreenTech has covered the annual Consumer Electronics Show in the past since many nonprofits (especially smaller ones) often buy consumer-grade products rather than enterprise- or business-grade. Around the time of the show, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) released its CEA 2010 Sustainability Report. read more.

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Go Green with Software Downloads: Updated TechSoup Resource Page

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Back in April 2011, TechSoup ran an Earth Week campaign to raise awareness about the benefits of downloading a TechSoup software donation rather than having it shipped as a traditional boxed product. TechSoup has created a new short video: How To Go Green with Electronic Software Downloads. We're making good on that promise.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

Read up on "ingestible" electronic pills, cloud storage price wars, how the Star Trek Tricorder has come to life, and more. Electronic Pills: Coming Soon to a Stomach Near You. The ingestible sends an electronic signal to a band aid-like patch on the patient’s skin recording that the patient took the pill.

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Refurbishment Arrives On the Big Stage

Tech Soup

This past July the Obama Administration announced its National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship. It is the United States' first comprehensive policy that addresses the proper handling of used or discarded electronics devices. A federal Interagency Task Force on Electronics Stewardship developed the national strategy.

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

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Since 2011, more than 13 million Syrians have been displaced. telehealth and electronic cash payment systems). In the annual disaster philanthropy report, we tracked nearly $37 million in wildfire funding to date in 2020 by institutional philanthropy. Syrian refugee crisis. Millions are also internally displaced within Syria.

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How Quickbooks Helps a Nonprofit Recharge Teenagers

Tech Soup

And 60 Minutes recently did a segment on it as a technique to counterbalance our obsession with electronics devices. She told me that when the organization started in 2011, "We were doing our accounting on handwritten spreadsheets and then graduated to Excel. The organization also does lots of fundraising.

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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup

By 2011, American women surpassed men in gaining college degrees , including advanced degrees. Eva Galperin , director of cybersecurity at Electronic Frontier Foundation. In the U.S., the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) nearly passed in the late 1970s; it's been reintroduced in every session of Congress since 1982. Last year, U.S.