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What Are Social Enterprises, Anyway?

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global’s CEO Rebecca Masisak is presenting at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 this month in Minneapolis. The Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 is having some of my heroes speak at the event. That got me to wondering. What exactly is a social enterprise? The Social Enterprise Alliance Summit.

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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

Tech Soup

" This is an emerging economic paradigm that promotes systems that help eradicate waste not just from manufacturing processes, but also throughout the life cycle of products and their components. More than 580,000 phones were collected and tested in 2013. million ink cartridges were collected and recycled in 2013.

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Tech for Good at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

Four major device manufacturers (LG, ZTE, Huawei, and Alcatel) announced support for Firefox OS. For more on the latest tech for good trends, check out these blogs from the TechSoup Global Network: Nonprofit Technology News for March 2013. Tech for Good at CES 2013. Nonprofit Tech Trends from Tech Impact.

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Tips to Beat Declining Facebook Reach

Tech Soup

At the same time we saw this decline, stock prices for Facebook rose by about 35 percent between October 2013 and February 2014. The increased prices sparked a debate over whether the decline of organic reach has been manufactured to coerce businesses into using paid advertising to reach their audience.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

They manufacture big high altitude, solar-powered drones that can fly for up to five years without needing to land. I talked about Internet.org’s strategy of bridging the digital divide with smartphones and also improving the efficiency of Internet networks. TechCrunch. This 25 th.

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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

Take the manufacturing industry, for example. This isn’t surprising when you consider the recent historical trends in funding for these organizations, which have increased continuously—with a notable dip in 2013 and a peak of $49 million in 2017. The rise of “alt-labor” nonprofit organizations. As this sector declined in the U.S.,

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Mobile for Good: A Low-Key CES 2014

Tech Soup

While I don't quite understand the appeal of large-display smartphones and tablets, they must be popular since manufacturers keep coming out with them. citizens, tech privacy became a hot topic – and a major concern – in 2013. Bigger Devices, Faster Chipsets. inch display. Privacy as a Trend. 3D Printing Goes Mobile.