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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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Emily Goligoski, The SanFranista: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

and teaches yoga in San Francisco. When I moved to San Francisco five years ago, I couldn't have known how important yoga would become to me. I had gone to classes on and off before coming to California but regularly left before savasana, the rest period at the end of class where the mind is invited to be still.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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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. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. IMLS Building Digital Communities.

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

Tech Soup

It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. Students bring their own laptops to a public library, and receive instruction from high school-aged instructors. The Power of Kids Teaching Kids. He saw the potential of Java as a language and tried to expose Vineet to it.

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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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Women Who Tech Around the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. The program includes an IT program where women receive weekly instruction in using Microsoft Office and navigating the Internet. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A.

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