NTEN

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

If you haven't heard, the 2012 NTC will be held in April 3-5 in San Francisco. Some projects will have a technology focus while others will offer an opportunity to support the good work of local nonprofits. The 2012 Day of Service has been made possible by the support and commitment of Event 360.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 21, 2018

The 2012 State of the Work Report shows that “people of color make up 37 percent of program offices at foundations…21 percent of U.S. managerial/professional workforce, but only 10-17 percent of CEO and board leadership at foundations” (Ryan, 2012, p. Eventually, their protest worked and a deaf candidate was hired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’ve been a huge fan of GivingTuesday since I first heard about it back in September, 2012 during a conference at Stanford. GivingTuesday is done it again with its K-12 Philanthropy Curriculum , a set of lesson plans that teachers can use to help their students participate in GivingTuesday by raising money for a local nonprofit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Benetech looks forward to working with all these groups to provide the latest books, especially textbooks (primarily in English). ?These Our Bookshare team has also been working on a special project with Qatar’s Mada Assistive Technology Center to add Arabic-language books to the collection.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2012

As students return to school this and next month and buy their required reading books, principals, instructional coaches, department chairs, lead teachers, and teachers hopefully will have read this summer as their required reading Paul Bambrick-Santoyo’s new book, Leverage Leadership – A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools. “As

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Unions bring their connections to working people, their wide membership base, and their organizing expertise, while newer social justice-oriented nonprofits bring new innovative ideas and connections to populations not included in the traditional labor movement.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

But a shifting communications environment and changing donor demographics could render those best practices ineffective at best, and obsolete at worst, as early as 2012. Raising money in 2012 will require creativity and foresight. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Four years ago, web 2.0

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. While these types of enterprises have profit-making as their highest motivation, we also see them working actively for the betterment of society. Karina Lungo is a graduate student in the MNpS program at Arizona State University.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

Between 2012 and 2020, the Fellowship supported 90 leaders working across 40 U.S. Leaders like Oluwatoyin Ayanfodun (Toyin) , founder of Tomorrow’s Leaders NYC (TLNYC) which has supported 2,000 over-age middle school students across New York to defy the statistics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 23, 2021

The book (co-authored by Dick Weiss ) chronicles Michael’s story of going from an underdog athlete to a turnaround CEO, and how he took his student-athlete experience and translated those learned lessons to successes in his career. It’s not easy or without obstacles, and sometimes it even takes more than hard work, maybe even a bit of luck.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But as I tell my students and clients regularly, writing to raise money is a learnable skill that you can master. In today’s article I wanted to share a bit about my writing process when I work on fundraising emails for clients in the hopes that it helps you master your process and write great copy. I do not and neither will you.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

It unites diverse advocates, allies, and inspires philanthropists to work together to build a better California. Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign in 2012? Although we didn’t reach our fundraising goal in 2012, we were really inspired by the potential of this new vehicle to raise funds and what we learned.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By this point, suicide was a global health issue, and the United Nations and World Health Organization had worked to establish guidelines for suicide prevention strategies. It was updated in 2012, and the Office of the U.S. However, the U.S. had yet to establish their own guidelines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

The Family Independence Initiative ’s last 10 years of working with low-income families, has repeatedly evidenced the power of information sharing. For one nonprofit, the programmatic feedback of reviews on GreatNonprofits.org helped them better serve their students. Please join us for the conversation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

In 2012, 25 percent of Americans had more credit card debt than they had in their emergency savings. There are no courses in our public school systems that teach students how to use a. If it passes, our students could become the most financially savvy high school graduates in the country. Kristen Coco , Program Developer.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day. Earlier this year, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) received 4,600 responses to our annual 2012 State of the Sector Survey. So what happened in 2011, and what are respondents planning for 2012?

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. In December 2012 Charity Navigator released the concept note for CN 3.0 – their next version of Charity Navigator. In addition to financial measures, charities will now be rated on the results of their work. As part of a.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

" NDHC requested a donation of Esri ArcGIS for Desktop Basic software from TechSoup in 2012 and found it so beneficial that the nonprofit requested another donation in 2014. NDHC employs these materials to train architecture graduate students.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

" NDHC requested a donation of Esri ArcGIS for Desktop Basic software from TechSoup in 2012 and found it so beneficial that the nonprofit requested another donation in 2014. NDHC employs these materials to train architecture graduate students.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. students) with a collection of 220,000+ (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest library of its kind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Dubbed "Model B+," it's the third model the organization has released to the public since Model A went on sale in 2012. The Raspberry Pi was designed to help educators and students understand technology better. Specifically, it's a tool to help students explore how hardware works, try Linux, and learn to program.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s report follows on the heels of Giving USA’s 2012 report for 2011 giving, where the total current individual giving was reported to be $217.79 Sources: [1] Giving USA Foundation, Giving USA 2012, pg.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 5, 2019

When I became the first employee of She’s the First in 2012, I faced the daunting task of figuring out how to be a CEO and also fundraise. My first year on staff, I nearly quadrupled our growth, going from $64,000 in annual revenue in 2011 to $244,000 in 2012. I didn’t follow a traditional path into a nonprofit career. Register today

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 10, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. We routinely work with nonprofits that are struggling to determine if it’s financially possible to make a much-needed new hire, even on a part-time or contractor basis. Angela Francis , Senior Associate. Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

This post focuses on the work of several NGOs, most importantly, the Sharing Foundation , that cares for children in Cambodia. Beth Kanter (@kanter) August 4, 2012. We also got to meet Keo Savon , the second college student that our family is supporting through the Sharing Foundation’s college sponsorship program.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. The good news is that digital literacy is becoming part of lesson plans for K-12 students in public schools. The Role of Schools.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

A survey of their clients indicates that nonprofits are going to focus on social media and mobile strategies in 2012. The CTK Foundation is asking you to nominate a “Hero with a Heart,” and give them a chance to win $5,000 – a simple thanks for the hard work that they do. Nominate your hero with a heart today !

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Shim shared a case study at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference on how his organization uses social media to communicate with youth participants in the Pathways to Education program. Pathways to Education serves over 600 students. Of course, not all experiments work out immediately (or at all). The program was a success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I think Adora Svitak, a 16 year-old education activist, whose 2012 Ted Talk, “ What Adults Can Learn from Kids , has almost 4 million views said it best when describing the impact that these “kids” will have and why we should pay attention to them: “New generations grow and develop and become better than the previous ones.

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Tech Soup

JULY 22, 2011

The new program is now accepting applications and students can take the courses from anywhere. Students who complete the program will receive a joint certificate from both universities. The certificate program introduces students to the concept of sustainability in the context of Green IT. Why a Green IT Certification Program?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. But when summer vacation starts, the school meals end. That's 3.9 MILLION U.S.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

Fast Forward to 2012. Several models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus 2012 with system restore capabilities. Computers For Youth will supply educational resources for low-income students. The program is scheduled to launch in late 2012 or early 2013. to scale up RCI in California. Using the U.S.

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