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Ayesha Barenblat, founder of Remake, wants you to think before you buy your next article of clothing. Equipped with professional digital tools from Adobe for Nonprofits, Remake is amplifying the conversation about the true cost of the clothing industry using digital storytelling.

Start-Up! Kid's Club is an Austin, Texas–based nonprofit aimed at teaching kids aged 5 to 17 entrepreneurial skills as a form of alternative learning. Find out how its staff successfully used Intuit QuickBooks Online to cut in half the time allocated to bookkeeping.

Find out how a small nonprofit from Philadelphia is using QuickBooks Online Plus, acquired through the Intuit Donation Program at TechSoup. Urbanstead utilizes QuickBooks to keep track of its finances and fulfill its mission of empowering youth and communities through the practice of urban farming.

Washington Water Trust is a nonprofit dedicated to protecting water flows across Washington state. Data security is a top priority for the organization. Find out how data backups with Veritas System Recovery software help it to protect water.

As an organization that deals with thousands of students each year, the Science Fair Foundation BC collects a great deal of personal data that needs to be protected. The nonprofit found its solution for data protection in Symantec Endpoint Protection, acquired through TechSoup Canada. Read more!

SKJAJA Fund provides youth with scholarships to extracurricular activities they can't afford. Recipients give back to their community in the form of volunteer work. See how SKJAJA harnessed the power of QuickBooks Online to give more scholarships and keep its board members instantly apprised.

An efficient IT infrastructure is necessary for an organization to run smoothly. Find out how End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin, a nonprofit, received up to 45 percent discounts on hardware through the TechSoup Dell Discount Program and has made progress in ending domestic abuse.

To improve their accounting capabilities, Brian and his FEJ team members made the switch to QuickBooks Online in 2016 by way of the Intuit Donation Program for nonprofits at TechSoup. Learn more.

Working with young people means collecting a lot of sensitive information that needs to be safeguarded, says the nonprofit Boomerang. At the recommendation of its IT professional, it began using Veritas System Recovery, Server Edition, for data security for nonprofits, acquired through TechSoup.

The AUD Social Cooperative is working to support communication and social participation for people who are deaf and hard of hearing in South Korea. The organization has created an app called Sharetyping using Microsoft Azure, which they accessed through TechSoup Korea. Learn more about it here.

Fundación Cristo Rey serves 3,000 students and 50 nonprofit organizations, so it has assumed stewardship of sensitive personal data. The nonprofit decided to use Symantec and requested it from DONO, a program of ILUNION, which is TechSoup's partner organization in Spain.

TechSoup's Refurbished Hardware Program has been going strong since 2006. Because refurbishing extends the life of IT equipment, it is one of the most environmentally beneficial things any of us can do. Discover the environmental impact of the Refurbished Hardware Program.