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I was pretty impressed how people are using this for donations. If only smaller nonprofits could use technology like this. Whole world could be a better place.

Earth Week"Downloading Software" - GO GREEN from TechSoup In honor of Earth Day, we encourage you to go green and download your software donations. Downloading is 90 percent greener than shipping products and it saves manufacturing and transportation resources

This article discusses how Buffalo City Mission, which helps with the needs of poor and homeless families is teaming up with SofTrek Corporation. SofTrek corporation helps many nonprofits by providing donor management software, online marketing and fundraising tools, business services, and technology solutions. It's great that there are corporations out there that work with nonprofits to help them achieve their mission.

This report from a Californian NPO resource company indictes some of the problem hindering board efficacy. Of note: Half of questioned board members are uncomfortable soliciting donations for their NPO. Can online giving help?

I did some volunteering with this organization this past weekend. A group of about 50 students from Grand Valley went and disassembled over 230 computers. CompRenew Environmental recycles old electronics (tvs, computers, microwaves….basically anything with a plug) and keeps them from going into landfills. They then refurbish the electronics and sell them, or they disassemble them and sell the parts, or just recycle them. All of the money they get from the recycled electronics goes to education in over 44 countries. CompRenew is a really neat company. Hopefully their idea will spread and more cities will be able to recycle old electronics.

Goodwill and MacMedia both have related recycling / refurbishing interests around the state: http://www.goodwillwm.org/donate/computer-recycling--reuse and http://www.macmedia.org/care.html, respectively.

Responsibly recycle your electronics.

This is a program that all NPO's should offer and take part of. Technology is a important part of the way we operate today.

Toyota wants to salute do-gooders by giving 100 cars over 100 days to organizations that could really use a new set of wheels. And voters like you decide who gets a new ride every day.

A pretty simple, straightforward way of checking out charities before you donate. Especially helpful as so many charities pop-up to help Japan.

Whats the best way to research a non-profit before donating? Guidestar! The 990 form reveals everything.

This article shows non-profits how to build a website step by step, as well as how to get donations set up.

A local non-profit awards Houston students with computers to help with education. Comp-U-Dot takes donations in the form of computers and refurbishes them, later giving them away to students. If it weren't for these refurbished computers these students would not have word processing, spreadsheet, or internet capabilities.