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Power of Storytelling | Harmony for Change: The Global Impact of Playing For Change

Pamela Grow

Mayer, reflecting on his song in 2007, expressed the need to start a debate about our tendency to passively await change. Playing For Change leverages this by directly impacting over 50,000 students through on-site teachers. Playing For Change aims to provide arts education to marginalized youth in 17 countries.

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2007 Global Social Venture Competition

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Global Social Venture Competition is a great event: bringing the talents of business school students from around the world to bear on society's pressing problems. I just found out about a matching making blog for the 2007 GSVC, where social groups can link up with students who want to work on a business plan.

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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

sgEngage

My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.” Generative AIs went from entertaining but ultimately not very useful to possessing, and the change happened overnight. 

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[PODCAST] INSPIRE with Jeff Nelson

NonProfit Hub

He has led OneGoal since March 2007, overseeing vast programmatic expansion and guiding strategic planning efforts. Jeff graduated from the University of Michigan and earned his MA in Teaching from Dominican University. He received his MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

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What are learning platforms?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Most proprietary LMS are geared specifically toward the college/university or corporate training markets, and are thus quite expensive. There are open source LMS, some of which are quite well developed, and some also geared toward (or developed by) colleges and universities. Moodle – probably the best known open source LMS.

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This summer, we will have three students working on Bookshare software for our users underwritten by Google’s Summer of Code program. Our vision is to provide equal opportunities for students with disabilities and help them overcome a major barrier to accessing to the most valuable prize in society: a great education.

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Day 12: Let’s Help Send Some Cambodian Kids To College – #12days of giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Keo Savon graduated from the local high school, steadily holding #3 and #5 in her class of 65 students. She is studying chemistry, math, physics, biology, and Khmer literature at the University where she hopes to major in architecture. I was lucky enough to meet Leng Sopharath when I traveled to Cambodia in 2007.