Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2013

As collection and processing of e-waste and discarded electronics in Africa reaches worrisome proportions, industry leaders and policymakers from all over the world are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa on June 7, 2013. Special emphasis will be placed on voluntary industry standards like Responsible Recycling (R2) in the U.S.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

But how exactly can nonprofits use it and other platforms to raise money, grow their base of supporters, change policy, and recruit volunteers and board members? Vancouver, British Columbia – March 2013 TBA. Facebook now boasts over 901 million active users, making it, by population, the world’s third largest country.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

Get your world-changing ideas together and warm up your programming fingers because the National Day of Civic Hacking is happening across America on June 1 and 2, 2013. Using publicly-released data and code, participants will be able to swap ideas, share skills, and solve challenges that affect Americans on both local and national scales.

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 22, 2017

WAA has taken steps to institute a Whistleblower's Policy to protect employees who may report illegal or dishonest business practices. WAA has a conflict of interest policy, with any Worcester-related board members recusing themselves from decisions related to the wreath procurement contract.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

American Library Association's "Digital Literacy Libraries, and Public Policy" report. Young people are not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's tech-centric workforce—and that's a huge problem. Defining Digital Literacy. But first, what exactly is digital literacy? More Resources.

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Selfish Giving

APRIL 25, 2016

Nonprofits Leverage Social Media According to The Guardian , Deborah Alisina , CEO of Bowel Cancer UK , used Twitter to organize “tweet-ups” to initiate dialogue and solicit feedback from cancer survivors on the company’s efforts, and also to rally the web community in an effort to push certain policies forward in the UK government.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

Industry and policy leaders shared information on the current state of African electronics recycling and refurbishment policy and practice. And I’m going to revise my Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013. The event has now taken place, and this post is about what happened. Those of us presenting from the U.S.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 16, 2015

It is included with Office 365, but it can also integrate with Microsoft Exchange as well as with Office 2013. Keep your email communication secure with Microsoft's Exchange Server 2013 , an email management software that runs on Windows Server. are some tips for creating a telework policy at your organization.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

The network application integrates with Active Directory to leverage the organization's existing Windows domain structure and group policies. We might even take for granted and forget about the complex electronic security that protects us from what could be costly and time-consuming disasters. Awards and Praise. More Resources.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. Foreign Policy magazine's Predators for Peace Drones is a short history of humanitarian drones. In the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Digital citizenship: In the final stage, communities can use these tools and knowledge to work with governments and affect policy. In January 2013, Dd also hosted a hackathon mainly comprised of local students and programmers, further cultivating ownership and sustainability in the process. Key Challenges in Working in Remote Areas.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

I was building social media contacts with progressive policy organizations and conducting a routine communications capacity audit. And don't forget to enter TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge with your own story by April 30 to win prizes! How have you looked for great stories?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

The session, "Turning E-Waste into Green," focused on how policy decisions handling e-waste can improve the economy. 2013 winner, Missing Treatment , is a tool through which individuals can report when vital, and government-promised medicines do not arrive in their local pharmacies. Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds. The Give App.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 21, 2024

Before 2013, federal grant requirements were located in multiple OMB circulars. Topics include handouts and resources for pre-award federal activities, grant management systems, allowability and cost principles, policies and procedures, and award closeout. Check out our website to learn more and sign up for our training newsletter.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

In 2013, the TechSoup community was surveyed. This dedicated human resources help desk can assist you with any questions you have or issues you face, from decisions on policies and procedures, to performance management and termination questions, to legal compliance and harassment issues. Nonprofits Need HR Too.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

IMPORTANT: I found out the hard way that I needed to ensure that the Outlook client on each workstation was configured to cache all mail locally, rather than 12 months, which is the default setting for profiles set up in Outlook 2013. Executing the Migration. After the workstations are prepped comes the data push.

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Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops

JULY 11, 2017

To emphasize this point, a random sampling of 600 journals from the Thomson Reuters database revealed that although nearly 2/3 had an established authorship policy, only approximately 5% of those with a policy required authors to describe the nature and extent of their contribution ( Resnik, D.B. Med Ethics, 2016). Hepatol, 2015).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Just under 200 million of them were sold worldwide in 2013. TechSoup: Telework Policies. My sense is that tablet computers, which are regarded as mobile devices, are not yet as essential to telework as smartphones, but they will be eventually. Tablet adoption is very brisk. Find their report here. Additional Resources.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

CareQuest Institute collaborates with a wide range of partners to achieve its mission of improving the oral health of all through work in grantmaking, research, health improvement programs, policy and advocacy, and education, as well as leadership in dental benefits, care delivery, and innovation advancements.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. Smartwatches. Green Technology.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Brazil is particularly active with its Brazilian Association of Electric and Electronic Recycling Companies and its emerging comprehensive e-scrap policy with a target of 17 percent by 2018. Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

As more nonprofit offices support Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, the need for hybrid systems will increase. citizens, tech privacy became a hot topic – and a major concern – in 2013. For those of us who work in tandem with our smartphones, PCs with hybrid operating systems is an exciting development.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

MAY 15, 2024

Seems odd, since Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) says there were at least 3,200,000 migrant encounters nationwide in 2023, not counting the millions of gotta-ways, compared to just 314,000 in 2013. With a 10-fold increase in only a decade, one would think S + A would be doing lots of proposals for migrant services, but this is not the case.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. TechSoup's online community manager, Michael DeLong, also predicts that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will increasingly integrate an overall mobile strategy into their work in 2013. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013.

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