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Blog Post: Webinar: How Real Nonprofits Fundraise with Microsoft

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Kyla Hunt, Webinar Program Manager, TechSoup Global Editor’s Note: On June 21, Microsoft and TechSoup Global will be hosting a free webinar for nonprofits and libraries to share how to utilize tools and resources from Microsoft to enhance your fundraising. The following is cross-posted from the TechSoup...

on19 Jun 2012
Blog Post: Fast Five Features for NGOs: Creating Better Spreadsheets

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Yesterday, Mark Liu from TechSoup and Kate Libershteyn from Microsoft as well as nonprofit Feet First talked to nonprofits and public libraries about how to get the most from Excel by using keyword shortcuts, pivot tables and other tips to keep spreadsheets running smoothly. Here is this week’s Fast...

on15 Jun 2012
Blog Post: #12NTC: Using Windows Azure to do good – and a live example

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Keith Thode, COO & CTO at AidMatrix Today was the first full day of the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) , NTEN's annual gathering that brings together nonprofit professionals from around the world to learn, share, and explore the important role of technology for social good. I had the...

on4 Apr 2012
Blog Post: Technology keeps the lights on at the American Shakespeare Center

Microsoft Citizenship Team

The downturn in the economy has heavily impacted theatres across the country, especially over the last three years. When budgets are hard hit, often one of the first things that’s impacted is echnology. “If we have to choose between hiring another actor or upgrading our software, we always pick the actor...

on6 Feb 2012
Blog Post: 21st century transformation for a 19th century vision

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Derrick McCourt, Regional Manager, Microsoft Our Citizenship work is a great way of enabling our people to work together outside their day-to-day teams. I am immensely proud of the track record the team here is building up. In Scotland one of our community partners is nonprofit Aberlour. Founded in 1875...

on14 Nov 2011
Blog Post: Getting a nonprofit up and running with free online tools

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Olivier Fontana, Marketing Director, WW Field and Partner Marketing, Windows Embedded Business; President, UFE Seattle In May 2010 I decided I wanted to involve myself more into the broader French and French speaking community of Puget Sound in Washington State. I reached out to a nonprofit called...

on18 Sep 2011
Blog Post: Even “genies” need precise record-keeping and a professional homepage

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Bernadette Szilagyi, Unlimited Program Manager, Microsoft Hungary The goal of Csodalámpa Alapítvány in Hungary is to fulfill the wishes of children suffering from serious illnesses, thus alleviating their pain and bringing some change to the routine of coping with their condition...

on1 Sep 2011
Blog Post: Ukrainian Mothers Tap Technology to Brighten their Children’s Futures

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Kirill Staroverov, a student Intern at Microsoft Ukraine April 26 th , 1986 was a dark day in the history of Ukraine. The destruction of the fourth power unit on Chernobyl atomic power station was the biggest ecological disaster known in human history. Radioactive pollution spread out across modern...

on23 Aug 2011
Blog Post: Unlocking potential in Peru with gain in technology skills

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Nancy Ferradas, Microsoft Peru Paz y Esperanza (Peace and Hope) is a nonprofit in Peru that operates in eight locations around the country, including Ayacucho, Lima, San Juan de Lurigancho, San Martin, Huanuco and Apurimac, to provide support and assistance to girls facing difficult domestic conditions...

on22 Aug 2011
Blog Post: Using Technology to Drive Development Results

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By John DaSilva, Project Development Manager, Kenan Institute Asia It’s not so easy to fit an organization like Kenan Institute Asia (K.I.Asia) into a description of your typical NGO. We’re as likely to design an intellectual property rights training curriculum for SMEs as we are to conduct...

on11 Aug 2011
Blog Post: Letting Go: Leveraging Office365 towards a Serverless NGO

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Thomas Bell, Director, Integrated Technology Initiative, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public There is a room at the Ashoka offices in Arlington, Virginia, a room that would be familiar to many IT managers, filled with servers - racks and racks of servers. These servers produce lots and lots of heat, so...

on8 Aug 2011
Blog Post: 22 Years Ago…

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Guest Post by TechSoup Global founder and co-CEO, Daniel Ben-Horin Back in 1989, TechSoup Global (then called “CompuMentor”) was two years old and pioneering our notion of matching high level tech-savvy volunteers with nonprofits. I'd neglected to invent the World Wide Web at the same time as starting...

on28 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Help your favorite nonprofit get a software donation

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Today we’re announcing updates to our nonprofit software donations program to enable more nonprofits around the world to get easier access to the technology they need, when they need it. While we currently provide software donations to over 40,000 nonprofits each year, we’re just getting...

on27 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Expanding Microsoft software donations to more nonprofits

Akhtar Badshah

Today we are making a number of updates to our global software donations program designed to give more nonprofit organizations access to the technology they need, when they need it. We’re currently reaching more than 40,000 organizations around the world each year – translating into over...

on27 Jul 2011
Blog Post: European students helping nonprofits with technology

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Sylvie Laffarge, Director Community Affairs Europe at Microsoft. Last December we announced the Tech Talent 4 Good pilot program, which offered European IT students an internship with a nonprofit, charitable organization in Europe and following a competitive selection process, ten internships were...

on22 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Social Media for Nonprofits conference tours the United States

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Effective communications most often requires an ability to tell compelling stories that resonate with your audience. Increasingly, Social media enables us to outreach to people from all around the world and engage in the type of conversation that one might normally experience at a dinner table, party...

on29 Jun 2011
Blog Post: Bringing local impact to life

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Jean-Philippe Courtois, President, Microsoft International Storytelling is a time-honored tradition in communities and cultures around the globe. However in today’s world, getting the best stories to break through the “noise” can sometimes be a challenge, considering all the digital...

on22 Jun 2011
Blog Post: How technology is helping German parents and children in need

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Nestwärme e.V. Deutschland was founded in 1999 to help the nearly one million families in Germany caring for children with disabilities or chronic illnesses. Over 1,400 volunteers and more than 80 employees help take care of the children, which gives parents much-needed time for themselves. Whether it...

on3 Jun 2011
Blog Post: Helping Sick Children Conquer Their Everest

Microsoft Citizenship Team

The staff at A Chacun Son Everest (“Each has their own Everest”) can’t move mountains, but they can give sick children the opportunity to climb and conquer them, and for more than 17 years, they’ve been doing just that. A Chacun Son Everest is a French nonprofit organization (NPO) started by doctor and...

on2 Jun 2011
Blog Post: Call for young marketing minds to create a plan for Social Good; Are you one? Win a trip to Cannes!

Microsoft Citizenship Team

So you are a rising marketing star in the corporate world; could your ideas change the lives of others? Maybe you used to rock marketing competitions in High School and college, or maybe you just love watching “The Apprentice” and wish Donald would give you the task of using your creative...

on17 Feb 2011
Blog Post: Annie Leonard on The Story of Stuff and Decentralized Ownership

Akhtar Badshah

I am here on day one of the TechSoup Global Contributors' Summit , and had the opportunity to hear Annie Leonard , the director of The Story of Stuff Project , talk to a full room of more than 200 social change makers from more than 40 countries. A dynamic and downright funny speaker, Leonard talked...

on15 Feb 2011
Blog Post: Seattle Works Redefines its Office Space with the Cloud

Akhtar Badshah

Last Friday we had the pleasure of announcing Seattle Works as one of three worthy winners of the Tech for Good Contest sponsored by Microsoft and TechSoup. With so many great entries, it was hard to pick just three winners, but Seattle Works rose to the top for their innovative use of the cloud as a...

on10 Feb 2011
Blog Post: Assistive technology provides access to jobs

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Maria Nicolacoudis, executive director at TransAccess TransAccess, a Bay Area nonprofit organization, helps youth and adults with disabilities to achieve their goals. In partnership with local schools, government agencies, and businesses, we provide individualized assessments, career and job placement...

on3 Feb 2011
Blog Post: Survey finds that consumers expect public-private partnership

Dan Bross

Things are underway here in Davos at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum and an interesting theme seems to be emerging. That theme is trust – trust in institutions – government, business, the media and NGOs. PR firm Edelman has been measuring trust for 11 years and earlier...

on27 Jan 2011
Blog Post: A Closer Look at the Nonprofit IT Pyramid: A Framework Love Story in Four Parts (Part Four)

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Pulling it All Together Not long ago , we introduced you to the Nonprofit IT Pyramid – a simple framework we use to (1) help us understand how nonprofits adopt technology, and (2) guide our own programs to ensure they are well-aligned with the needs of nonprofits. Over the last few weeks, we’ve...

on9 Sep 2010