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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. Nonprofit Social Enterprises. That got me to wondering. What exactly is a social enterprise? billion euros.

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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

Tech Soup

It of course provides TechSoup product donations to French nonprofits. " 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.

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Tech for Good at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

You can read about some of these apps in on our Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries page. You don't need any programming experience to build an app for your nonprofit or library, either. Firefox OS: Built by a Nonprofit. Four major device manufacturers (LG, ZTE, Huawei, and Alcatel) announced support for Firefox OS.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa.

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Tips to Beat Declining Facebook Reach

Tech Soup

This means less reach for pages operated by nonprofits and for-profits alike. At the same time we saw this decline, stock prices for Facebook rose by about 35 percent between October 2013 and February 2014. How Other Nonprofits Have Found Success. How Other Nonprofits Have Found Success.

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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

Read this blog to learn more about how these nonprofits are addressing the issues facing workers today by filling gaps left by traditional labor unions , and find out what Candid’s data says about philanthropic support for this growing movement. 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

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. As more nonprofit offices support Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, the need for hybrid systems will increase.