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If you are a TechSoup By the Cup subscriber and work for a 501(c)3 organization or library, enter our monthly drawing for an hour of tech time by phone with a TechSoup employee, during which you can find resources to help your organization improve its technology infrastructure.

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Up to two people on a call; offer is non-transferable. Winner will be announced the second week of June.

Good deeds do get rewarded! If you know someone who’s been toiling in the open-source vineyards, developing software that’s really helping a nonprofit succeed, check out the Tides Foundation Pizzigati Prize, a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest. The application deadline for this year’s prize: September 1, 2008 (5 p.m. PST). Find out more — and apply online — at www.pizzigatiprize.org.

Looking for some hands-on training in how to use the Web for social change?

TechSoup's NetSquared project is proud to sponsor the upcoming Social Tech Training, which will take place June 22 through 24 in Toronto, Ontario. Presented by Web of Change and MaRS, this practical, comprehensive workshop is designed to help you build a solid Web 2.0 plan from the ground up while aligning your organization's culture to support it.

Find additional tools and tips for greening your nonprofit through TechSoup's GreenTech Initiative, where social benefit organizations can share and learn more about technology choices that can help to reduce our overall impact on the environment.

Are you harming vital organs while saving the world? It's possible if you are working on environmentally unfriendly computer equipment.

Fortunately, a new online tool can help ensure that your next computer is less toxic for you and the environment.

If you're headed to the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week, be sure to stop by TechSoup's NetSquared tabletop exhibit at Moscone West, where you can learn more about NetSquared's mashup challenges and upcoming conference.

Exhibit hours:

• Thursday, April 23: 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Friday, April 24: 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Learn more about the San Francisco Web 2.0 Expo.

NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, helps nonprofits remix the Web for social change.

How would you mash up the Network for Good donation processing service with other services to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money online?

NetSquared, Network for Good, and the Case Foundation invite you to help them enhance Network for Good's online donation process. Submit your ideas in one of two categories:

TechSoup’s new GreenTech initiative promotes and supports environmental responsibility in the nonprofit community by providing green-related technology articles, resources, and opportunities for community discussion on the TechSoup online forums.

By helping nonprofits "go green," we hope to reduce the sector’s carbon footprint and contribute to the responsible stewardship of the Earth’s environment. Visit our GreenTech page to learn more!

While it's nice to have a great mission statement and a lot of earnest copy and graphics on your nonprofit Web site, there's nothing like a clever or fun hook to get people to engage with your cause in a creative way.

Last month, we wrote about the NetSquared Mashup Challenge, asking people to vote on their favorite mashup ideas from a pool of 122 submitted projects that outlined plans to "mash up" online data for social change. The 21 finalists are in, and will be showcased at the upcoming NetSquared Conference, where the teams behind the projects will take home a share of $100,000 in prizes.