You can’t just open the floodgates to everyone. Say you’re Adobe and you want to donate your software to folks doing good things. TechSoup exists because the problem of matching resources to organizations happens in both directions. TechSoup for the Soul (and Groups That Aren’t Churches, Too) Although TechSoup is a great deal and provides an extensive catalog of resources, it can be difficult to make good use of it. Thankfully, there’s an organization that acts as a clearinghouse for such things: TechSoup. But it’s worth it if, for instance, you want to get Microsoft Office for your nonprofit at a 95% discount.

Just about every major tech company advertises-sometimes loudly, sometimes selectively-that they provide free or discounted services to people doing good work, but finding and accessing those resources can be tricky. Like any good technocrat, my first instinct was to find tools to automate and streamline our management and communications infrastructure. I recently took the helm of an educational science nonprofit. #1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk.#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage.#1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.

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