• Share the Technology - computer recycling - Interactive website that allows you to specify your willingness to donate (or receive) computer equipment, and then matches you up with recipients (or donors).
• Tecschange -- Technology for Social Change - Boston-based organization that recycles donated computer equipment and provides computer repair classes to inner-city youth. Many of the computers are shipped overseas (Eritrea, Carribean, Central America).
• Volunteer Match/ Impact Online -  a nonprofit organization which utilizes the power of the Internet to help individuals nationwide find volunteer opportunities posted by local nonprofit and public sector organizations.
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Computer-Assisted Activism and Advocacy Examples

• Action Network -  a website that allows you to send key messages to policymakers before they make their decisions on environmental issues.
• MoveOn.org - a website for "a new kind of grassroots involvement", supporting busy but concerned citizens in finding their political voice.
• NetAction's Virtual Activist Training Guide - a training online course that helps you become an online activist.
• GroundSpring - a project providing Internet tools and training to the nonprofit sector.
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Free Internet Services

• Onebox.com | Free Voicemail, Email and Fax - a service provider that offers FREE voicemail, email and fax ‹ all in one place!
• Topica listserves - a free Internet service that allows you to easily find, manage and participate in email lists. Recommended by IGC.
• Yahoo Groups listserves - a free email group service that allows you to easily create and join email groups.
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Free, Open Source Software

• EBase - an interactive database for nonprofit organizations to keep data - memberships, donations, activist information - in one place.
• Free Software Foundation - an international organization dedicated to the development of free software, and the home of GNU Project that developed a complete Unix-like operating system.
• SEUL - Simple End User Linux - a volunteer project to help GNU/Linux become an operating system that the average user can install and operate easily.
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Grassroots Organizing and Movement Building Resources

• COMM-ORG Home - a website that connects organizers, scholars, and scholar-organizers who care about the craft of community organizing.
• Consensus Organizing Institute - a national non-profit organization that provides strategic services to local and national partners based on a nonconfrontational organizing model.
• National Organizers Alliance - a nationwide alliance that advances progressive organizing for social, economic and environmental justice and to sustain, support and nurture the people of all ages who do it.
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Non-Profit Support and Online Fundraising

• Idealist: Tools for Nonprofits - a list of resources on managing and funding a nonprofit organization, as well as for making the best use of technology in your work.
• Guidestar.org - a searchable database of more than 640,000 nonprofit organizations in the United States and free service that allows nonprofits to accept credit card donations.
• Nonprofit Internet Resources, Portals, and Support Organizations - a site that has nonprofit news, online resources, and articles about e-philanthropy to share.
• The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network - a site that promotes the use of technology to help nonprofits achieve their missions.
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Online Databases Useful for Activists

• EDF's Scorecard Toxics Database -   a website that provides the most up-to-date and extensive collection of environmental information on toxic chemicals released by manufacturing facilities and the health risks of air pollution in the USA or in your local area.
• CRP: Find Individual and Soft Money Contributors - the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington, DC based group that tracks political contributions.
• Public Information Research - an extensive database of investigative research books on US government and corporations.
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Social Implications and the Public Interest

• Center for Democracy and Technology - promotes free expression in new media technology, with a focus on law, technology, and policy.
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) - A public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society.
• Electronic Privacy Information Center - a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. that focuses public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.
• Loka Institute - a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology.
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Social Justice Portals and Sites by Issue and Constituency

• EPN | The Electronic Policy Network - a website that provides trenchant policy analysis to the general public and is a network of about 60 member organizations.
• Essential Information  a non-profit organization that provides a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities.
• EnviroLink - an organization that provides environmental and animal rights non-profit organizations with free Internet services.
• Feminist Majority - an organization that is dedicated to equality and seeks to eliminate discrimination of all kinds in view of feminism.
• LaborNET: Online communications for a democratic labor movement - a democratic communication network for the labor movement.
• Multiracial Activist - Link Directory - a website that contains relevant links to race-related, and government and politics websites.
• United for a Fair Economy - an independent, non-partisan organization dedicated to revitalizing America through a more fair distribution of wealth.
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Social Justice Sites With Online Directories

• Idealist.org (Action Without Borders) a searchable database of 23,000 organizations and home of a global coalition of individuals and organizations working to build a world where all people can live free, dignified and productive lives.
• Institute for Global Communications (IGC) -  a group advancing the work of progressive organizations and individuals for peace, justice, economic opportunity, human rights, democracy and environmental sustainability through strategic use of online technologies.
• Protest.Net - a community of activists who are working together to create their own media and a website that has a system for maintaining activist events calendar.
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Technical Assistance for Nonprofits

• Computer Res. Center for Nonprofits: Nonprofit Tech - an organization that works with the nonprofit sector to enhance organizational effectiveness and apply technology.
• Helping.ORG - an easy-to-use, one-stop online resource designed to help people find volunteer and giving opportunities in their own communities and beyond.
• LINC (Low Income Networking and Communications) Project - a project to help low income organizations integrate technology into their campaigns.
• NPower - Putting Technology Know-How in the Hands of Non-Profits - a project that helps non-profits use technology to better serve their communities.
• ONE/Northwest: Online Networking for the Environment a non-profit organization based in Seattle, providing technology assistance to conservation activists and organizations in the Northwest region.
• Progressive Technology Project (PTP) - a new collaboration that seeks to raise the scope and scale of technology resources available to grassroots organizing groups working for environmental, economic, and social justice.
• Techsoup.org - a free, comprehensive nonprofit technology Web site that features nonprofit discounts, articles, recommendations, resource lists and an online community.
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