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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

Similar to the funders in my previous post on education , the organizations listed below focus their efforts on activities inside and outside of the classroom. Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Lisa Libraries.

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MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

Tech Soup

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. " Library-Specific Curriculum. MathAndCoding volunteers are now doing this at more than 12 libraries in the region. But they are still kids.

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One Organization’s Quest for Good

NonProfit Hub

Katherine Stephans is the partnerships and communications manager at Library For All. She said she had one of those sparks working with Library For All, inspired by the passion of Library For All’s co-founders. “We Library For All co-founder and CEO Rebecca McDonald was living in Australia when tragedy struck Haiti in 2010. “It

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. " Waukesha Public Library. An increasing number of public libraries are discovering TechSoup donations, but few are maxing them out like Waukesha Public Library in Wisconsin.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. The software applications WordQ + SpeakQ provide writing assistance and speech recognition help for people with disabilities, new language learners, and those who are learning literacy.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications? He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. It starts in the home.

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