Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2017

Thankfully, that gap is closing because of the hard work of people coming together to create a community centered around universal design. I recently attended the California State University at Northridge (CSUN) annual technology conference , put on by the campus' Center on Disabilities. Bill is also blind himself.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

You can expect original series, podcasts, and luminary speakers — all of which will be focused on helping you to learn new skills, pursue new career opportunities, and drive change in this digital-first, work-from-anywhere world. Featured customers: Gavi , Big Brothers Big Sisters , University of California, 3M. Best of all?

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn has been part of the Qgiv extended family since 2019—we proudly partner to help make a difference in our communities. Would volunteering help? CA: During both my undergraduate and graduate degrees, I held a variety of part-time jobs to help defray my college expenses. Q: Will it help to become a volunteer?

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

A Boston University student told Input that photo dumps are a “personal scrapbook,” saying, “posting what I want takes stress and pressure out of posting on social media.” The aquarium, a nonprofit based in California, uses a fun and informative voice while keeping all of its content animal- and environmental-focused.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

The event was hosted by Google on its campus in Mountain View, California, which is home to some of the most cutting edge technologists in the world. Raman of Google Research, a long-time Bookshare member and advisor, was on hand to help us celebrate last night. I can feel it all over, it’s a hit!” said Stevie. Thanks Stevie!

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Meet the folks who are here to help you and your nonprofit succeed! We're thrilled to have such accomplished faculty on board to help our nonprofit management students reach their full potential! Lili Wang Associate Professor, School of Community Resources & Development. Lili Wang, Ph.D., Meet Dr. Wang.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. 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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2006

The Global Social Venture Competition is a great event: bringing the talents of business school students from around the world to bear on society's pressing problems. I just found out about a matching making blog for the 2007 GSVC, where social groups can link up with students who want to work on a business plan.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

A student at Ochoa Elementary in Tucson proudly displays her bounty of carrots after harvest day. The idea goes back to 1995, when Alice Waters, the pioneer of the “slow food” movement and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant, created the first “edible schoolyard” in a vacant lot near the Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, California.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, California and at SXSW. I also taught a workshop for social startups at Singularity University here in Mountain, View on how to create a Happy Healthy Start Up Culture. How about you?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2012

I am a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at Arizona State University and work for the ASU Lodestar Center. To invest in a world of equal opportunities: In addition to helping meet basic needs, you may also want to invest in a better, more equitable future for all. In fact, though the U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Does the incentive of monetary support influence how people allocate their altruistic desires to help others? Piper Trust funded an expansion of the Encore Fellowships program that originated in California. Carlton Yoshioka, Ph.D.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Who would have thought that Games of Thrones and bingo, with some help from Adobe products, could go so well together? Our Silver Prize — a free one-year membership to Adobe Creative Cloud — goes to Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in San Francisco, California. But they do! Thanks to everyone who submitted. spanhidden.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 15, 2009

Wellesley College student, Catlin Powers , is the co-founder of One Earth Designs. The organization helps Himalayan communities, "achieve their unique visions of sustainable living through science/engineering education and infrastructure development." and business skills.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2015

The last time I attended a university, it was on a beautiful, old campus lined with brick buildings with white pillars. This go-around, I attended classes in my office, my living room, hotel rooms, on vacation—anywhere I was as long as I had an internet connection because my latest alma mater , California Southern University , is 100% online.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Uri Gneezy, an economist at the Rady School of Management at the University of California San Diego, conducted two studies to test the theory that more people will donate if they know their money will go directly to the cause and not overhead. Another approach is to use the funds raised by a fundraiser to meet your overhead needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, Duke University and the virtual network of HASTAC, announced its second annual open-call competition that will provide $2 million in awards to innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning. A few days ago, the John D. and Catherine T.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 28, 2021

To help us personally reflect and connect with these stories, I’ve included questions from Terri Givens’ book, Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides. We don’t talk about [cultural differences in communication],” said Grace Wang, executive vice president for research innovation and knowledge at Ohio State University. “We

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Candid

JANUARY 28, 2022

The University of Southern California and the University of California, San Diego have announced a joint gift totaling $50 million from Daniel and Phyllis Epstein and the Epstein Family Foundation in support of Alzheimer’s research. College students value free speech, question its security, study finds. California?over

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Each one of these terrific people has committed to spending anywhere from a month to a year helping Benetech with his or her skills and passion. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. He followed up by launching another company helping startups find funding, write business plans, etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

Nomad is a statewide waste reduction award winner, through the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB). PLA is derived from natural plant sugars, and helps mitigate our dependence on the fossil-fuel economy. Get help from an agency like the Oakland Business Development Corporation (OBDC). Create a business plan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 22, 2012

Volunteers have also helped us prepare for the ACB and NFB summer conferences, and contributed to our marketing, collection development, and international departments. Kelli Lee I recently graduated from Foothill College with an Associated Arts degree in Business Administration and will be attending San Jose State University in the fall.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

I told the conference co-founders, a husband and wife literary agent team, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen , that I'd help to spread the word about the conference so I interviewed Elizabeth for the Big Vision Podcast. We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be. It's to help you through.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Net Impact Conference is the premier gathering of students and professionals who are committed to making a lasting social and environmental impact now and for a lifetime. The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. State/Local.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Julie Ha Truong is joining us from beautiful California by way of South Dakota in her background. You did a webinar for us last year, had to have you back, check her out over at Leadership Savvy, does a lot of good work helping folks with strategic planning, which you’re going to talk about obviously, and just an awesome person.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

This is a question our faculty, staff, and student team asks frequently in our quest to meet our Center's mission to help build the capacity of the social sector for those who lead, manage, and support nonprofits. In this post alone I've listed 14 links to sources of potentially helpful content. How's our blogging?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Just like any single thing, mobile phones are a help, but not a cure for homelessness. The project also provides specialized customer service and case management oriented toward plenty of help in landing a job. Local university students are even working on an app to make connecting to Wi-Fi simpler. into the workplace.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

We also have a student division: STAND , which has more than 850 chapters around the world, and the students in those chapters actively organize and mobilize their communities and schools to pass legislation, to fundraise, and to really make more noise about genocide in Darfur and genocide in general. His campaign was successful.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Roughly half (47 percent) of all students in the U.S. Most colleges and universities, including community colleges, fall under the category of 501(c)(3) public charities within the U.S. They provide a gateway to four-year degrees for many, especially for historically underserved populations. Where is funding coming from?

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See3

OCTOBER 17, 2009

I have not attended services for years - this is a wonderful opportunity and a beautiful service - thank you I am in Orange County, California. This is the first time in years that, as I sat at home, I felt like I was reaching out to the Universe of which we are all a part. Thank you for this opportunity. Carolyn Lawley. Joel Meltze.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s helpful to reconnect with all the benefits giving has to offer. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.” Sometimes people have more trouble modifying bad behaviors than beginning good ones; why not help them ? Don’t be stingy when sharing opportunities to give; you’re helping, not hurting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

--Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. Art is what helps you be a critical thinker. Eventually, he helped me open my business, along with my former business partner.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

1] These suits were brought by the (ironically named) Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, and they capitalized on a line of prior cases that had already begun to erode the practice. The racial wealth gap is just one powerful example. Recommendation 4: Carry on.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy.

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