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Microsoft's YouthSpark Initiative Seeks to Close the Opportunity Divide

Tech Soup

Local representatives from nonprofits, schools, and community groups convened in downtown San Francisco for Microsoft's YouthSpark Connection event. She also stated that while San Francisco is a highly educated region overall, two thirds of the city's highly educated residents are from outside of California.

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. " The Role of Libraries. Additionally, 30 million library users reported going to the library for employment-related activities.

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Bay Area Teens Share the Love of Coding (Part 1)

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With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley. Forming Stronger Support for Computer Science.

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Reliatech: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. They’re essentially running it like an Internet café, but also plan to use it for training classes. Remember we didn’t supply any instructions at all on this installation.

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Why Tech Nonprofits Are Building Digital Tools for Racial Equity and Justice

Non Profit Quarterly

At in-person sessions in New York City and San Francisco, and virtually on Youtube Live , Demo Day brought together nine social entrepreneurs to explore solutions for problems they’ve experienced. Most prisons are rurally located, limiting the opportunities for in-person instruction,” the founders say.

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The Networked Nonprofit in Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jessica Colaco places books in the iHub Community Library. Just to illustrate how spaces like iHub act as connectors, while I was setting up for the workshop, Tiffany von Emmel , a colleague from San Francisco was in the room! I need to find a space like this in Silicon Valley for 2011. Photo by Tiffany von Emmel - MissionFish.

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