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Corporate Citizenship and Digital Inclusion: Empowering Communities, Nonprofits, and Public Libraries

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Since 2007, San Francisco has been striving toward becoming a digitally inclusive city. For example, summer camps or after-school programs located in these parks can take advantage of the free Wi-Fi to teach computer classes or stream educational movies. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy' century jobs.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

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2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. We too dersire more instruction on financial literacy. Pollak, T. & Blackwood, A. Washington, D.

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

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Since May 2007, he and his crew have aided thousands of victims at 15 sites across the United States -- free of charge." Viola Vaughn "A group of failing schoolchildren in Kaolack, Senegal, once asked Viola Vaughn to help them pass their classes. Maria Da Silva "Has lost 14 family members to AIDS.

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Riffing on David Armano's Listen, Learn, and Adapt: Need Your Organization's Adaption Stories!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director.

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Writing to Change the World

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Clearly, not all writers are cut out to do the kind of work Power does, but if you want your writing to have a larger purpose, here are a few resources for you: August 23-25th is the Writing for Change 2007 conference in San Francisco. It was co-founded by two literary agents, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. The Corte Madera School now uses Bookshare.org books in a range of classes for disabled students. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding. The feedback has been amazing.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community. They talked about the economic value of housework, and the importance of education and literacy in gaining economic independence." Kennedy New Frontier Award in 2007. She received the John F.

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