Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Source: Pew Internet and America Life Project: " Networked Workers " Study. Michele Martin and Tony Karer have been blogging at the Work Literacy blog for several months now. The topics they look at are what I might call social media literacy skills. Mostly they are aware, but haven't experienced it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2017

2: Give Local America Day — #GiveLocal17. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 2: World Autism Awareness Day — #WorldAustismDay. 7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 14: World Dolphin Day — #DolphinDay. September.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. Is that cool - the literacy school is green! I want to mention a few recent posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

The America's Giving Challenge will award $50,000 to the project that gets the most unique donors. Our project on Global Giving focuses on literacy which is key to education and jobs for poor children. The literacy school runs three sessions a day for 130 children of Roteang village???s It's a route out of poverty.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

A few months ago, I attended Microsoft Citizenship's YouthSpark Connection event and heard first-hand from recent high school graduates about how dire the need for digital literacy is. Defining Digital Literacy. But first, what exactly is digital literacy? " The Role of Libraries. The Role of Schools.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Keep America Beautiful. The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect natural resources, improve the production and distribution of food, and promote public health in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Areas served: Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East. PADI AWARE Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Roger Carr has said it much better than I can in his post directing his blog readers to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge fundraiser set up by Michele Martin. I've never met Kilong, but we've exchanged emails and I sent khmer alphabet flash cards for their literacy program a few years back. I met Bob through Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Luis’s family and other High Andean families have little access to education and training, dramatically limiting their job opportunities despite living in one of the fastest growing adventure tourism destinations in South America. They teach local families healthy llama breeding practices, tourism services and environmental literacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

You can read more about how this project will create lasting impact in India in a blog post by Betsy Beaumon , VP and General Manager of our Global Literacy Program. We expect to significantly improve access to books that blind people in India need for their education, employment and inclusion in society.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! We already have many exciting ideas flow into the Labs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Central and South America. TARGET END LINKS ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe and Middle East. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

of America v. The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. This ruling by the Supreme Court in Sony Corp. copyright law.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

3: Give Local America Day — #GiveLocal16. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 2: World Autism Awareness Day — #WorldAustismDay. 7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 16: World Dolphin Day — #DolphinDay. September.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

From our colleagues at the United Way of America, an update on 2009 Call Volume: 2-1-1 call centers across the country have completed their annual survey of call traffic. In 2009, these calls totaled more than 16 million calls across America. This is an increase of 13% in call volume over 2008.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM. Before joining Malala Fund, she served as the director for philanthropy at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). Malala Fund is partnering with ACE Charity in Nigeria to provide children. with radio-based education during the pandemic.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. Martus Desktop 4.5

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Central and South America. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Before using Box, it had problems providing access to shared servers and its intranet to field offices in South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Operation Hope : This financial literacy nonprofit uses Box as its primary content management system for all employees.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Year Up is just one of the five nonprofit organizations Microsoft has partnered with along with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, City Year, Junior Achievement USA (JA), and Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Currently, Mackey is working at McCann-Erickson Worldgroup as a Desktop Support Level I. More Resources.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Subscribers will also be given access to free digital literacy training. Parts of the plan were funded under the Federal stimulus package including the Connect America Fund , which was created to supply affordable broadband to underserved people and areas. Anyone interested in finding out more on this program can call 1-855-8-INTERNET.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 29, 2008

My friend Beth Kanter, of Beth's Blog , is working hard to win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation by January 31, 2008 as part of the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. The way America's Giving Challenge works is that the 8 individual online fundraisers who inspire the most people to donate, will receive $50,000 for their charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

Since her parents work in the Sharing Foundation's farm program, she attended the Foundation's Khmer Literacy School which helped her enter the local village school. Blogger Roger Carr of Everyday Giving Blog has written a beautiful post about the Khmer Literacy School ! Leda, a young child, was abandoned in a local market.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

" If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum. The Pew state of privacy in America report is a fascinating read for both individuals and organizations.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” More often than not, people who are described as “illiterate” likely have a low level of literacy. This is because literacy is not a binary descriptor, as it is often made to seem. Illiterate. For a while, the preferred term was Hispanic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

s America I Believe In campaign that seeks to restore America???s Earlier in the week, USC Institute for Media Literacy and the Seton Hall School of Law launched a "Virtual Guantanamo" to focus on public policy issues surrounding the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. namo by signing a pledge protesting the U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

" If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum. The Pew state of privacy in America report is a fascinating read for both individuals and organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

I had just read a paper about the LINCOS project in Central America, so this was fresh in my mind. Our talks covered a wide range of topics including AIF's work around helping people obtain good livelihoods in general, as well as challenges around adult literacy.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

New Heights, by promoting literacy through a wide range of programs, has produced radical results. With help from TechSoup and Citrix, New Heights is closing the education gap in America, and giving families the resources they need to provide a brighter future for their children. Inspiring Optimism Through Results.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." New Heights Educational Group is an educational support and literacy center for families with children who are struggling in school. The organization's project on Last Polar Bear reached 26.5

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

There is a surprising number of nonprofit computer refurbishers in North America that now supply accessible technology equipped computers, and lately iPads and iPods to disabled people at no or low cost. That's where nonprofit computer refurbishers come in. How Accessible Technology Computer Refurbishment Came About.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

"Affordable connections to the Internet are critical, but if we don't also address issues around affordable devices and, critically, the digital literacy and life skills to use those devices to go online, we will do nothing but change policy, and not impact the digital divide. Nice 10-year prediction, Phil.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. http ://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/world/americas/21text.html?_r= There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. She also won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Reporting for her article, " Dying in Darfur ," in The New Yorker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Jennifer Paterson Dempsy, The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada Just recently I asked for help within my social network at Twitter to spread the word about something I am very passionate about, Braille Literacy. I used a cli.gs link [link] so I could track traffic to the link. Lisa McClure The 12for12k project - [link]. -

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. It goes a long way in helping readers get to know Rani and consider donating to help kids like her. For the feature image, they used a photo of Rani looking directly at the camera. This eye-catching photo invited viewers to click to take a closer look.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First up was Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented a nifty tool for bridging the digital divide. Jason Lally presented Ohana on behalf of Code for San Francisco, Code for America, and San Francisco's Open Data Initiative. Let's dive in. Identifying Nearby Resources.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Originally from California, Harriet Chalmers Adams lived a life that saw her travel through South America, Asia, and the South Pacific.

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