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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. If you’re reading this blog, it’s probably because you’re a huge fan of social media and believe that it empowers all of us to connect, create, explore, and understand our world. There’s no going back now.

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Microsoft's YouthSpark Initiative Seeks to Close the Opportunity Divide

Tech Soup

Local representatives from nonprofits, schools, and community groups convened in downtown San Francisco for Microsoft's YouthSpark Connection event. She also stated that while San Francisco is a highly educated region overall, two thirds of the city's highly educated residents are from outside of California.

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

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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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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

Prior to Inner City Advisors, Jose served as the development director for five years at the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that provides microenterprise business technical assistance and neighborhood planning services to small businesses. Someone is born with it.

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2 Youth and Tech Speaking Gigs This Spring

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Streetside uses written, oral and digital storytelling to teach young people in the most underfunded Bay Area public schools how to write autobiographical stories. Ill be teaching a blogging class and doing some mentoring. Sex :: Tech is presented by ISIS (Internet Sexuality Information Services).

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Favianna Rodriguez: Political Digital Artist and Printmaker

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I learned about artists like Yolanda Lopez from San Francisco, or Ester Hernandez, or even male artists like Malaquias Montoya, who were doing very radical work, and were getting into venues and areas that I really wanted to get into. I learned about Frida Kahlo. One kid, his name is Bunthoeun Hack, I remember meeting him. He was 15.

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Women Who Tech Around the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. They offer comprehensive high school scholarships, personalized mentoring, and leadership training. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A.

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