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Nonprofits, Companies, and White House Unite on Tech Gap

Tech Soup

" In 2014, GigaOm found some interesting statistics on diversity in tech from company-provided data and survey results from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : 80 percent of employees were Caucasian at the tech companies it examined. Volunteer as a mentor, instructor, or support for a nonprofit (such as Year Up!)

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Research Friday: Branding in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

Alex Flores , Teach For America. 2 Nonprofits usually offer intangible services to their communities, in contrast to the tangible products and services usually offered by for-profit companies. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a. continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to.

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Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

a new company-wide initiative to create opportunities for 300 million young people around the world over the next three years. Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. A video of her story is here.

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4 Best Professional Development Practices for Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

They talk about a company working to speed up the production process of a product in order to increase profit. Therefore, they use a specific LMS system to teach and train volunteers. . Let’s say that a resource is setting up an example to illustrate principles of accounting.

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

NonProfit Hub

Tom Ahern makes his living by writing cases and direct mail … by doing audits, reviewing and recommending fixes for donor communications … and by teaching others what he’s learned during decades of trial, error and the occasional spectacular success. And hundreds of top mentors contributed to what’s rattling around in his head.

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Social Media Basic Literacy Skills In the Nonprofit Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Pew Internet and America Life Project: " Networked Workers " Study. Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work.

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Recapping the First Salesforce Nonprofit Summit Sessions

Cloud 4 Good

As AKC’s Director of Strategic Planning, Seth Fera-Schanes oversees the full technology roadmap for the company while leading, mentoring, and developing both people and products across departments. The Teach For America Story: Creating Exceptional Constituent Experiences.