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David Altshuler has taken his experience in business and IT, plus $1 million of his own money, hoping to bridge a. gap between social equality and the digital divide.
Altshuler founded TechFoundation, a Cambridge-based non-profit that is trying to close the digital divide between non-profits.
Altshuler, a self-proclaimed social entrepreneur, has spent the last six months rolling out a program to find IT equipment, skilled help, and education and networking opportunities for non-profits.
TechFoundation evolved out Telecommunications Cooperative Network (TCN), which was founded by the Carnegie Corp. and the Ford Foundation to provide non-profits with access to telecommunication services. Altshuler was executive director at TCN.
Before that, Altshuler worked for eight years as a consultant, worrying about the bottom line. But that has since changed.
"When I was in for-profit, all I thought about was market share; from the non-profit side,...