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HOW TO: Engage 5 Generations of Donors and Supporters

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Currently, more than 50 percent of children ages 0–8 spend an average of 43 minutes daily on smartphones and tablets watching videos, reading, and playing games. Milliennials also value privacy and time away from mobile and social media, reading print copies of books, and regularly visit libraries.

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Upcoming Webinar: Creating a Culture of Storytelling

Tech Soup

Enter empowerment and encouragement. of storytelling at your nonprofit, library, charity, or social benefit. Image: The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. What is needed is space to create. Pacific time for this. Our guests will speak to the importance of creating a culture. organization.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. And today, braille is not being taught to most blind children. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Spotlight on South Africa: Nonprofit Profiles from SANGONeT

Tech Soup

The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. Children and Education. Kliptown Youth Programme provides after-school activities and educational support to disadvantaged children from the Kliptown area.

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Domestic Violence Awareness Month: 5 Extraordinary Organizations

Tech Soup

TechSoup is participating by amplifying what other agencies, collaborators, and libraries in our network are doing to raise awareness on this important issue. Empowerment, Shelter, and Support. " The organization serves women, men, and children fleeing domestic violence. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM).

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

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What is your “Individual Social Responsibility (ISR)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through his nonprofit, “ Technology for People ,” he has dedicated his life to girls (and boys) empowerment through technology. He has helped developed a technology and library center in the rural school in his village and is implementing a program that is teaching kids ICT skills. The man denied it and left.

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