Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Address on receiving Caltech’s Distinguished Alumni Award May 18, 2013 Caltech was founded to give back to society through science and engineering, to discover knowledge and apply that knowledge. That’s the Caltech advantage! Richard Feynman once tried to reduce an advanced physics concept to a freshman lecture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. During the school year, federal programs like the National School Lunch Program help close this nutrition gap by providing free or reduced cost meals to low-income students. But when summer vacation starts, the school meals end. That's 3.9 MILLION U.S.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2013

He organizes and produces MCON, a national conference on Millennial engagement, and he is the coauthor of Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement (Jossey Bass, 2013).

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

While these stats show that this national day of giving has struck a chord in people internationally, it’s the stories from #GivingTuesday that truly inspire us. Camp Kesem empowers college students across the United States to create a free, life-changing one-week summer camp experience for children affected by a parent’s cancer.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

The good news is that digital literacy is becoming part of lesson plans for K-12 students in public schools. Unfortunately, like public libraries, public schools are also constrained by tightened budgets and smaller staffs and can't always provide the individual attention that some students require. Defining Digital Literacy.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. students at Stanford University. California became the first state in the nation to have a law go into effect concerning privacy. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It was the last keynote of the day and it was a long day, so I improvised a movement exercise that involved some Samba movements to keep them engaged (see my post over at the Chronicle ). Now, I can’t wait for my international projects in 2013! Teens As Free Agents.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

“Appreciate, Engage and Retain Your Supporters” TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH, 2013 at 2PM ET. Prior to joining Care2, Ashley spent 10 years at the Student Conservation Association (SCA) where she helped hundreds of young people volunteer on public lands and start careers in conservation. Fresh ideas on how to retain donors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2018

posted by Kristin Harvey ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management student. The National Council on Nonprofits points out that this could put pressure on state and local governments to make tax cuts, which could lead to less funds for programs that serve people in need. This could also lead some to decide not to itemize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also facilitated several design labs with nonprofits as part of the research for the Happy Healthy Nonprofit at the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and the National Arts Marketing Project. One happy, healthy habit I started in Oct, 2013, was to integrate more movement into my work day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

She suggested: In Uruguay: What is the poverty rate among individuals and households (using any of a number of poverty lines – absolute or relative, national or regional)? Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)? Which national-level public institutions (e.g., Which are widespread?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”). 2013: A Year in Social Media.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program. And don't forget to enter TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge with your own story by April 30 to win prizes!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The Corporation for National & Community Service has very insightful statistics on the volunteering and civic life. In 2013: 6 million of us volunteered 7.7 from transcribing historical records for the Carnamah Historical Society in Australia, to researching students in the Lodz Ghetto school for the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

National Marine Life Center :: @ MarineLifeCtr. The National Marine Life Center forcus on rehabilitating stranded sea turtles, seals, dolphins, porpoises & whales while advancing scientific knowledge and education in marine wildlife health & conservation. National MS Society :: @ MSSociety. MomsRising :: @ MomsRising.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2015

As reported by the Star Tribune local , "Spare Key [the charity] is one of the first Minnesota nonprofits to make an appeal to cryptocurrency holders, and among a tiny but growing group nationally. Online giving was up 14 percent in 2013, with monthly giving revenue up 25 percent compared to 2012. " New Opportunities.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. Students Need Your Help to Help Others. GivingTuesday: Show the Heart of UConn Nation. Back in 2011, I started collecting all the emails that nonprofits sent me during the month of December and reviewed what was in my inbox. 5 moments that inspired us in 2015.

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