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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. It’s all about teaching digital literacy and citizenship: the knowledge and skills necessary to think critically, behave safely, and interact responsibly in a digital world. An 8-megapixel camera on your phone?

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Build a Non-profit Website that Works [Steal These Ideas!]

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You will probably need to hire a WordPress developer to build your site, but your developer can teach you how to make updates after your site goes live. Primary colors evoke childhood and optimism. Or will snapshots from cell phones work for your website to convey the grassroots nature of your work? That was a real bummer!

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How Hospital Foundations are Building a New Case for Support

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Our focus areas are: early childhood learning, behavioral health, obesity, and transportation. This entails board and committee members making phone calls to thank donors for their gifts in the past year(s). We will celebrate how far we’ve come with healthcare while also teaching them what still needs to be fixed.

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Leveraging Salesforce CRM for the University of Vermont Office of Research

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This process is a marked improvement from its predecessor that Nihart described as “diffuse and bifurcated” in how client information would flow through email, phone calls, and web inquiries. Success Story: Creating Equity in Education With Teach For America + Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

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Next-Level Fundraising with Nonprofit Psychology

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If you were looking to find the “best” teaching method, you would have had a hard time finding a definitive answer. In the last 15 years, researchers have gotten a much better understanding of how we learn, which has allowed people to apply new methods that help teach more effectively. Check them out and see what works for you.

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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

That may be why technology (for example, rapid mobile phone adoption worldwide) may be so important for realizing the new goals. The previous UN Millennium Development Goals addressed eradicating poverty and hunger, combatting diseases, promoting maternal and childhood health, increasing primary education, and sustaining the environment.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.

ASU Lodestar Center

She was an example for me throughout my childhood, bringing me along as she volunteered at soup kitchens, with the LDS cannery, and in the Scouts. My mother tried to hide her excitement as she handed me the phone, but her eyes lit up. I hope to teach my own children, someday, all that I’ve learned about service and citizenship.