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66 Articles match "DC","Education"
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Friday, January 22, 2010
DC ( and elsewhere ) tomorrow. PROGRAM work : advocacy, education, or delivering your mission. Flickr: Cambodia4Kids (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Members are in bold. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
education and tax preparation, even special "matched" savings accounts
so just as many ways!" This is a youth-run organization that works in the DC area .
Earlier this month, I participated in a social media library giveaway organized by Steve Cunningham , who like me, loves books. He writes a blog called " Read It To Me " that summarizes business books and also hosts Webinars with authors.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Just spent a week in Washington DC doing all kinds of things, including actual lobbying (it's fun!) as well as meeting with our Bookshare funders at the Department of Education. One of the coolest meetings was with Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter, who headed our local community college here in California before getting the appointment. She and her senior policy adviser, Hal Plotkin, are huge fans of Open Educational Resources (OERs), having been involved in starting that movement in community colleges. Our new announcement about the Department granting Bookshare supplemental funding to convert open content textbooks to accessible formats went over very well.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education ( CASE ) recently released a report called "Click Here to Donate: Results of the CASE 2009 Survey of Online Fundraising." Thompson is now Director of Editorial Research for the Chronicle of Higher Education and The Chronicle of Philanthropy in Washington, DC.
The sample is slightly more skewed toward research/doctoral quot; The report was prepared by Dr. Chris Thompson, former CASE Senior Research Director, and respected nonprofit consultant Robert L.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Check it out and join us in you are interested. And of course, most important things first, we have an un-YAPpy Hour scheduled for Tuesday 9/23, 5:30 at Le Bar at the Sofitel - 806 15th Street NW (15th and H) DC for those of us who are thirsty after class... : )
...Tags: Tags: YAP Education ASA Anyone getting ready to take the CAE Immersion course at ASAE in a couple of weeks, or the exam itself in December, or either one, any other time after? (Info Info on the CAE program is here .)
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
John Kenyon , Jennie Anderson, AIDS.gov , and William Neuheisel, DC Central Kitchen
Imagine If your primary communications goal is education, do you have engaging content that's easy for visitors to locate?
In Two excellent examples of effective online communications are AIDS.gov and DC Central Kitchen. Imagine producing online communications you're proud to share with the world and that garner praise from funders, donors, and other stakeholders.
Each Each month, I look at dozens of nonprofit websites and hundreds of nonprofit emails.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
An extra year of secondary school: 15 to 25 percent. (George Psacharopoulos and Harry Anthony Patrinos, “Returns to Investment in Education: A Further Update,” Policy Research Working Paper 2881 [Washington, D.C.: Ties Boerma, “Maternal Education and Child Survival: A Comparative Study of Survey Data from 17 Countries,” Social Science and Medicine 36 (9) [May 1993]: 1207–27.) • When women and girls earn income, they reinvest 90 percent of it into their families, as compared to only 30 to 40 percent for a man. (Phil Did you know: " • An extra year of primary school boosts girls’ eventual wages by 10 to 20 percent.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
It comes soon enough " 5. @robertegger is Robert Egger and the CEO of DC Central Kitchen but identifies his Twitter profile with his personal web site . Most of the tweets are about Planned Parenthood activities. Check out this video blog of my visit with peer educators at Planned Parenthood of New Mexico! Fred Krupp is the CEO of the Environmental Defense Fund Recently, BusinessWeek published a slideshow of CEO's who use Twitter , noting the dramatic rise of CEO's who use Twitter to clue customers in on new services, help them with questions about their
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Just spent a week in Washington DC doing all kinds of things, including actual lobbying (it's fun!) as well as meeting with our Bookshare funders at the Department of Education. One of the coolest meetings was with Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter, who headed our local community college here in California before getting the appointment. She and her senior policy adviser, Hal Plotkin, are huge fans of Open Educational Resources (OERs), having been involved in starting that movement in community colleges. Our new announcement about the Department granting Bookshare supplemental funding to convert open content textbooks to accessible formats went over very well.
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Monday, September 3, 2007
BrewingGood: Face to face meetups they are piloting in Washington DC. Children's Health" or "Education"), and the duration for the grant. Razoo is a social networking platform built to, "promote social good and to inspire others to get involved by making giving and serving fun, easy, and meaningful." It's a sister company of Geneva Global: Performance Philanthropy .
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Stephen O’Keefe joins the Care2’s Washington, DC-based Nonprofit Services team in the role of Director of Client Management, after four years at software-as-a-service provider Convio , Inc., Stephen also previously worked for a Boston-based strategic consulting firm that worked with educational nonprofits, and as a field manger for several political campaigns.
"Stephen Largest Online Social Action Community of 10 Million "Do Gooders" Adds Fundraising and Advocacy Experts Allyson Kapin and Stephen O’Keefe, Who Bring Decades of Experience at Helping Nonprofits Succeed Redwood City, Calif. –
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Monday, August 17, 2009
This past weekend, I exerted some effort to get myself from Washington D.C. Last week, it was brought to my attention that Elgg–an open source Social Networking Platform–was holding a conference on Social Media for Education, and a more specific conference on Elgg. know and understand the needs of Education that the promise of Social Media can bring. The question one finds asking themselves before taking any task of considerable effort is whether they really want to do it. to Cambridge, MA to attend a conference.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
I'd worked at a DC nonprofit the summer after my junior year that focused on policy work, but that wasn't a fit for me either. educational inequity, poverty), what would they be? If you were to take more risks in your educational or professional career, what types of things would you do? My senior year of college I knew that I wanted to do work that made a difference, but I didn't know what kind of work that would be. I was a sociology major, but wasn't attracted to social work.
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