Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. A few months ago, I attended Microsoft Citizenship's YouthSpark Connection event and heard first-hand from recent high school graduates about how dire the need for digital literacy is.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They achieve this through transformative digital advocacy, digital literacy, and tech certification training. They expanded classes to Baltimore in 2019 after winning CAD $1 million in the TD Ready Challenge. area and interested in applying for classes at Byte Back, head to their site to begin the application process.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

Taking Education to New Heights. Pamela Clark began New Heights Educational Group in 2006, as part of a lifelong commitment to education. Pamela, inspired by her grandmother, saw an obligation to fight against these problems through education. It just clicked to me that I knew I could make this better."

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Sell tickets to your tax tips event to raise money for your cause while helping your community stay educated on important financial strategies. Reading challenge Issue a community-wide reading challenge this spring to encourage literacy in your community. For more peer-to-peer fundraising ideas, check out this list of fundraisers!

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NTEN

JULY 3, 2014

Free Geek is a technology reuse, recycle, and education nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. In addition to recycling and refurbishing technology, Free Geek provides a wealth of classes that are free and open to the public. Last week, during the quarterly staff retreat, NTEN staff toured Free Geek. Lego Robotics!)

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Effectively engage adult learners and utilize basic adult education methods. American Library Association's Learning Round Table is the group for library trainers and continuing education coordinators. Replicate the Denver Public Library's excellent technology classes at your own library! Digital Literacy Resources.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Hydra Mendoza, the San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner and the Mayor's Education and Family Services Advisor, provided some sobering statistics about the opportunity gap in San Francisco and worldwide unemployment. "There's a need to grow a highly educated workforce from within," Mendoza said.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

we at Benetech were concerned that the Authors Guild’s arguments in their appeal would remove the legal authorization for the services that we provide, relegating people with disabilities to second-class status.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Fort Meyers, FL/ $445. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / TBD. Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Indianapolis, IN / $695. Nonprofit Management / #AMI2019 / @NPL_Alliance. Nonprofit Management. Jan 24 - 25.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

For example, summer camps or after-school programs located in these parks can take advantage of the free Wi-Fi to teach computer classes or stream educational movies. project is focused on teaching digital literacy to young people so they can be prepared for 21 st. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

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. As the MathAndCoding founders refined their processes and logistics, Bricker grew more confident in letting them move on to offer more advanced classes.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

Pew reports that the groups least likely to want to use the Internet are senior citizens, disabled people, monolingual Spanish speakers, adults with less than a high school education, and those living in households earning less than $30,000 per year. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries'

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For them it’s really easy to take a class on Zoom, shut that window down, open up another Zoom link, and volunteer. As a volunteer administrator at an educational nonprofit in Oregon explained: Our volunteer opportunities are usually during the school day, so we have a lot of retired people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. All students around the world have access to rich and varied educational content. • I believe in the power of books to change the world.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

By providing students with funds for school supplies, coats, eye care, class trips, test fees, and athletic gear, InvestED has encouraged over 16,500 youngsters to stay in school in the state of Washington. Every year, birth defect rates and the percentage of children with special needs entering institutional care in China has increased.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

In response to the growing needs of professional nonprofit managers, numerous university-based nonprofit management education programs have emerged, but few offer continuing education for nonprofit professionals. We too dersire more instruction on financial literacy. We welcome your input and feedback. ^ [1] Wing, K. Pollak, T.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. They are very focused on education linked to vocational outcomes: the goal is to help these children move up the economic ladder with real job skills. The school is in its third year of the DE program.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

" New Heights Educational Group. New Heights Educational Group is an educational support and literacy center for families with children who are struggling in school. New Heights provides families with tutoring services , a library with more than 3,000 books, field trips, and online classes. Image 7: St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

educational technology and the adult learner." It is part creative zone, part class note record and part review space. Another point about goals: Community Literacies esp. How to engage people more deeply and deepen some of the community learning literacies? For the past two weeks, he has been teaching ???

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2012

She has worked in training and education for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WebJunction, the Public Library Association, the Northeast Kansas Library System, and more. Many libraries offer tutorials, in-person classes, and drop-in labs on how to use e-books. Keeping up with e-reader technology can feel overwhelming.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. GLIDE is a faith-based homeless services program in San Francisco that supplies hot meals, violence prevention, and education services in one of worst neighborhoods. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Exercise Class You can hold a regular exercise class with a volunteer instructor—like a boot camp-style fitness program—for long-term fundraising. You can also offer this as a standing class instead of a one-time workshop. Regardless of the organization they support, they focus on education and the academic community.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The DIY nature of these classes will help keep costs down, especially if you find projects where you can reasonably ask participants to bring their own craft supplies. Offer Classes Host workshops or classes in various skills, charging an admission fee for participation. Why would we lie about that?)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Our goal is to make four critical supporting points: • The term “Social enterprise” is descriptive. • “Social enterprise” is generic. • “Social enterprise” is in wide use in Trademark classes covering computer software and services to business and society. • Social enterprise is wide use in classes covering computer software and services.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

HECUA (Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs) in Minnesota has a Writing for Social Change Program. Kristi Gee describes the program in her post, " Everyone is a teacher and a learner ": We take classes all day Tuesdays and Thursdays. On the opposite days, we work for a non-profit related to our study.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

They grow food themselves that they can eat and share, and it's part of the Science and the PE classes so they are learning about environmental science. Britt Bravo: What does a typical class day look like? They understand why organic farming is important or why school gardens, why they should be a part of education.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Streetside Stories is a San Francisco based arts education nonprofit that actually just started a blog , so give them a little link love! I work with a co-facilitator and we visit sixth grade language arts and social studies classes for two-week writing workshops. women education youth diversity Viet-Ly: I have no idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

for Educators. Will work with the instructors or lab volunteers on these areas: Step 1: Identify Useful, High Quality Internet Resources Tech Skills: Internet Search Skills, Information Literacy. Just found blogbinders.com -- which may help with turning the student blog into a hard copy class poetry book. There are twenty books.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2022

Forum One received 10 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for Canopus (platinum), Centauri (gold), and Arcturus (rose gold) across the categories of government, health care services, diversity & inclusion, art, nonprofit, education, and financial services. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Canopus – Website for Government.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. The Corte Madera School now uses Bookshare.org books in a range of classes for disabled students. We want to ensure that every student with a disability no longer has the handicap of lacking textbooks or other important educational material.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We love doing them, bring on great guest, speakers, totally free, totally educational. But if not, this is a great way for us to connect in a safe and educational space. Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program. A TEALS teaching assistant for a classroom in rural Kentucky noticed the transformation of a young man involved in the program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community. They talked about the economic value of housework, and the importance of education and literacy in gaining economic independence." In small groups, the women learned basic business and marketing skills.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Libraries’ direct service programs, from voter registration to computer classes, are focused on supporting citizens’ needs broadly, whereas museums’ direct services (programs, outreach) are focused on spreading museum content. Both libraries and museums are (somewhat frustratingly) lumped with the K-12 public education system.

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