Technology for non-profit organizations

Many of our programs and events at Handy Circle Resource Society depend on technology beyond the planning and community awareness stages. Similarly, if your non-profit is not ‘online’, or active with some kind of technology as basic as email, it likely is struggling to exist or move forward. You have to admit that it has helped nonprofit organizations, students and home workers since the mid-1990s, and more every year since 2000. Programs are so important; society and community awareness are needed before those succeed. Ask any educator or non-profit professional. Websites are the simplest way for a future client to learn about your services and how to contact you about programs. Put a website on your business cards, on a car, brochure, or create a scannable barcode to place anywhere with a catchy website name to hook a viewer. It begins with technology from computer desktops and laptops to smartphones c/w apps.

Perhaps you are upgrading the system due to tax returns larger than you expected. put your child through college and yeah, the child needs top-of-the-line new equipment. Your old systems should go back to that recycling system you’ll find out about later in this post. What happens to those systems when returned properly? How can low-income families, non-profit organizations, and perhaps even you get computer systems for your home, and students? Read on. Possibly all the students will need is their rent, maybe food, to worry about, A computer can make education easier. If you get a printer, buy a shredder too. But what about Software? A computer system is just a paperweight without an operating system and productivity software. But commercially in places like London Drugs or Staples, and elsewhere even online, the cost is prohibitive to many budget-minded organizations and family groups. Like we said, read on…

Over the years, dba Handy Circle, we have updated our Community Access Program (CAP) with technology from various provincial resources. One such resource is BC Technology for Learning Society has been delivering the Government of Canada’s Computers for Schools Plus program for 30 years. Originally, computers were only provided to schools. Today, they have CFS+ program also provides computers and other digital devices to assist libraries, not-for-profit organizations, Indigenous communities and eligible low-income Canadians They provide refurbished technology for use in the classroom, library, or computer lab so students may develop the necessary skills for participating in today’s knowledge-based, global economy. With the help of BC Technology for learning Society, the CAP program is available to access internet mail and spending time online at the Handy Circle Resource Society’s Resource Center. Handy Circle has a comfortable setting to teach diverse subjects to our community now, empowering them with help to access programs for themselves. Presently the Prince George Public Library has systems for persons without home access in a CAP type program limited by membership. Donating to one of several recycling centers found in Prince George when they died, saved electronic waste from common dumping, with outdated technology. Handy Circle Resource Society has always recycled our electronic waste sustainably at recycling places to restore workable systems and other electronic devices. The computers, monitors, and parts are then shipped to a Centre in Burnaby, BC. The computers are refurbished and distributed to provincial recipients like students of all ages and non-profit societies like ours when requested. Software is necessary. The refurbished computers and laptops come basic with an operating system, usually Windows 11, in 2024, but extra software can be purchased from supply places like BC Technology. Another sponsor is TechSoup by helping organizations, schools and libraries by selling educational versions of popular productivity software at a discounted price. TechSoup also has donations of full-version software and programs when the software companies have promotions.