Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. Route 66 Route 66, our online platform for teaching reading, has officially launched thanks to support from the Peery Foundation. and James L.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

The answer lies in education. For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. credit card or budget their money. Get another!

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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. Born to a dysfunctional family, Pamela was raised by her grandmother, who taught her that "no time spent on a child is ever wasted." Inspiring Optimism Through Results.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2012

Pacific time to find out more. 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. Learn more about e-reader teaching tips during TechSoup's free 30-minute webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As we spring further into a new year, it’s time for your fundraising efforts to pick up speed! Yard sale Spring is often associated with cleaning and decluttering your home, making it the perfect time of year to host a yard sale. Spring fundraisers are a great way to bring your community together while gaining support for your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

And, while the hike was steep, it was not as steep as the Stanford Dish where I walk all the time, but at high altitude is was a workout. They teach local families healthy llama breeding practices, tourism services and environmental literacy. The scenery on the trek was some of the most breathtaking beautiful I have ever seen.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Emily at Emily's World offers her thoughts about "Integrating Web Sites into Teaching." " She asks: "As a web designer, I am very interested in the future of educational websites. However, I would not want to create an educational website unless I knew it would be helpful. At least for artists/arts educators.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We like to think that most nonprofits are concerned about their reach toward individuals who might struggle to connect with their offerings, at least in the best of times. If the pandemic forced us onto new and unfamiliar ground, now is the time to assess and balance how technologies have affected our reach, for better and for worse.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2016

A close examination of these tactics reveals several strategies that other nonprofits can use to monetize the work they do every day and add value to their time and output in corporate terms. For example, while many businesses have resisted building more energy efficient buildings, it's now clear that doing so reduces their costs over time.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

During this time of year, when the news media is dominated by stories of pepper spray attacks over video game consoles and hoards of shoppers stampeding stores at 4 a.m., Love Without Boundaries addres ses this growing need by providing educational support, medical care , and foster homes for neglected children.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

No one likes a dull board meeting, or a long one, or one that doesn’t start on time. Chances are, they share these traits: Convenient, agreed-upon meeting time and location. Prompt start and end times. Consider including time estimates next to each subsequent item. Yet, it’s one worth investing some time.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This took a month and two staff members’ time to complete altogether. This was initially a struggle, as the lack of face-to-face interaction makes it much harder to teach concepts and learn about a new role. Allow employees to go through the process on their own time and at their own pace.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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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

JUNE 22, 2015

Full-time volunteer and board member Mercedes Pellet told us, "We could not have afforded the Desktop Office Suite for 50 employees — Office 365 is a real blessing. " New Heights Educational Group. " Inward Bound Mindfulness Education. Image 8: New Heights Educational Group. Image 7: St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

Making media together is another way to teach your children about various causes. This ended up being a collaboration because Harry had to go to bed and I didn't want him to miss story time -- so I finished the narration. Her family has been willing let her pursue her education instead of working in the fields.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

The past five years I have been teaching Spanish at an Elementary School and serve as the school???s I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. Since then Langwitches Blog has turned into a Professional Development tool for me as well as for other foreign language educators. s webmaster.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Remember the last time someone said to you, "this is entirely your choice?" Each time the students decide what to do, the young Reagan picks up a red phone and presses either A or B. Each time they choose to do what he did, a bell goes off like they've won a tropical vacation to Grenada, instead of an invasion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. local time). Media isn't just happening to kids.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

Issues of poverty, socially responsible investing, human rights, education and health were an integral part of the conversation. And that is only part of the meetings and conversations I personally had: just imagine what the more than 50 social entrepreneurs were each able to accomplish in this short time. Thoughtful and engaged.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2006

The REAL hot 100 will compile a list of young women who are REALLY hot, and publish it, in magazine format, timed to coincide with Maxim’s release next year. Rachel can teach you how to make biodiesel, how to convert your car to run on straight vegetable oil, and how to fix your car too.

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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. The possibilities are endless!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

" There was an acknowledgment from a panelist about the tensions between the need to look at results and the need for experimentation and pressures of timing. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. Emphasis is on digital literacy. This is a time pressure question! MacArthur Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

At the time we applied for our much more narrowly drawn trademarks, we and our attorneys thought it inconceivable that anyone could try to baldly own the name of our entire industry. Social enterprise is wide use in classes covering computer software and services.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. Our political education starts on a very basic level by identifying the systems of oppression that we live under here in the United States. How did you get involved with this kind of work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. They understand why organic farming is important or why school gardens, why they should be a part of education.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

You should have it by dinner time, that’s my promise to you. We’re going to try to save a little bit of time for Q&A at the end, but don’t be shy about that. We love doing them, bring on great guest, speakers, totally free, totally educational. There’s a chat box and a questions box.

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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! Britt Bravo: Are there any young people that you've worked with who were super-challenging in the class, either academically or behaviorally, and you saw that arts education made a difference to them?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Silent: Silent auctions take the anxiety out of participating for some by allowing them to write their bids down on their own time. Virtual events are much easier to run as they create a complete digital footprint in real-time. Casino Nights Most nonprofits have considered a casino night for an event at one time or another.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness. Areas served: Santa Clara or San Mateo counties of the San Francisco bay area.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness. Areas served: Santa Clara or San Mateo counties of the San Francisco bay area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

At Common Sense Media , we believe that treating others’ information carefully, and teaching others to do the same, is a key factor in building and maintaining trust. We guide parents through raising kids in this digital age, and provide digital literacy curriculum to educators at no cost. Follow Taryn on Twitter.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

A month after the story was published, an email arrived from a writer at the New York Times who had discovered our feature and wanted to write it up. Take the time to package the story as best you can: add photos, video, audio, pull quotes, infographics. Put the time and the resources in to bring the story to life.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2012

I choose nonprofits that in my mind have excelled at social media throughout the previous year and represent causes that I feel are timely for the coming year. Hold corporate-owned media accountable to its democratic purpose to educate (not manipulate) the masses: @ AccuracyInMedia , @ NPR. The selection process is a personal one.

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