Setting up a fresh Windows machine for development tends to follow the same order. Start with the PowerShell one-liner to install Chocolatey, then pull the rest of your toolchain through choco install. A short list of tools worth knowing if you want an agentic workflow without a subscription: the Qwen Code CLI, which came out of the Qwen team and is tuned for the qwen coder models, and a local runner for open-weight models to host them. Both are open source and move quickly, so check the release notes before pinning a version..
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Dawn Franks

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Dawn Franks, President and CEO of Your Philanthropy, a coaching and consulting firm, works with donors, private foundations, and the nonprofit community. She has 38 years of experience working with nonprofits and donors across the country. She oversees grant-making activities for five family foundations and consults with them on a range of issues.

In her early nonprofit career, she co-founded the East Texas Crisis Center, serving as the Executive Director for 15 years, and later served as CEO of the United Way of Smith County. Dawn spent 13 years with the Fourth Partner Foundation, a giving intermediary.

Dawn is the author of Giving Fingerprints, an e-book that’s available at her site www.your-philanthropy.com

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