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Ohio Non-profits Can JUMP Start Their Technology

The fourth annual JUMP Start Your Non-profit contest is now open, reports Dayton Daily News. The contest sponsored by Modern Office Methods is open to non-profits in Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus is open until October 11. The contest winner receives a $20,000 technology makeover.
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TeraData Works with Non-profits to Provide Data Analytics

According to Red Orbit, Teradata, a data analytics company, has partnered with DataKind. DataKind, a non-profit that matches talented data scientists with non-profit and non-governmental organizations that have huge troves of data but lack the resources to analyze them, and Teradata will combine resources to provide non-profits with data analytic solutions.
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Local Company Gives Technology Grant to Middle School

The Somerset Middle School received a donation to purchase technology, reports Herald News. The $20,000 check from the Greater Fall River Development Corp. will be used to purchase document cameras and projectors at the middle school.
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Software Company Publishes Guide to Software

According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, in order to help charities determine which software is best for them, Idealware, a nonprofit technology group, has published a new guide to the different types of software used to collect, analyze, and visualize program data.
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New Game Lab Helps Disabled Players

AbleGamers Foundation, a non-profit charity organization dedicated to bringing accessible gaming to disabled players, has opened its first AbleGamers Lab, reports Escapist Magazine. The lab, located outside of Washington, DC, will let players with special needs to find gaming setups that best suit their specific requirements.
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ConnectEDU Wins Gates Foundation Grant

According to Yahoo Finance, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has selected ConnectEDU as a recipient of its Literacy Courseware Challenge Grant. ConnectEDU, a technology company helping students make connections between education and career, will use the grant to develop a web-based teaching and learning platform that tracks student progress against literacy skills outlined in the Common Core State Standards.
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TechSoup Global and MicroSoft Partner

MicroSoft has partnered with TechSoup Global, reports the Herald Online. TechSoup Global has added a new service on its platform that will quickly and reliably verify if an organization is a registered non-governmental organization and qualified to receive donations of Microsoft Office 365 for Nonprofits. This allows MicroSoft to scale its donations of Office 365 for Nonprofits.
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Eco-friendly School Fundraising

 A new online fundraising platform, shopforstudents.com, helps schools is helping school raise much needed money and be eco-friendly, reports the Herald Online. Through the site schools can sell green products without going door-to-door.

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Rounding Up at the Checkout Works

According to The Cause Marketing Forum rounding up for charity really does work. The Forum analyzed 63 campaigns that encouraged buyers to round up at check out for a charity. The campaigns each raised more than $1 million in 2012, for a combined total of more than $358 million raised that year. The top three campaigns were run by Ebay, Walmart and McDonald’s.

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Google Grants Give Non-profits an Advertising Boost

According to Synavista,Google Grants offers qualifying non-profits a way to reach web savvy donors. The grant gives organizations up to $10,000 in free search advertising, which the non-profit can use to promote their mission and organization.

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