Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

And they will find the reviews of others helpful and empowering for their program and service decisions. We know that when low-income families can access other people’s consumer feedback it is both extremely useful and a source of empowerment. Nonprofits will benefit from detailed information about program strengths and shortcomings.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean. Hadley-China students, support staff from Hadley-China, and native English speakers log onto a website at the same time.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The students are generally post-high school, but have no access to further education or training. The organization focuses particularly on women and students in rural areas. Saint Anthony's Education Centre empowers underserved students with education and job training. Environment. Poverty Relief and Social Services.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. The iPad app provides free videos to K-12 students on various topics, including math, science, finance, and history. iStudiez Pro.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. either in their own home.

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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. This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

I spoke with them recently about how they've used the software donations received through TechSoup to help run their programs. How IT Donations Help Meet Their Mission. Helping Native Kids, Using Tech. Most Native American students do not go to college, so many Educational Talent Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2010

Last week’s case study about how the Students for Free Tibet vets participation generated some great responses and advice in the comments from Wendy Harman , Red Cross and Stacey Monk , Epic Change, both veterans of online fundraising and voting contests. Will the contest provide a meaningful opportunity for stakeholder empowerment?

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MAY 14, 2024

and how they impact students, families, and public funding in general. The state’s income-based EdChoice Expansion Scholarship program awarded each K–8 student up to $6,166, while high school students received up to $8,408. ESA funds stay with the state until a student’s parent or guardian approves payment to the school.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Be Helpful. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup. Their business intelligence products let organizations create interactive reports and presentations, while their cloud-based tools help enable group decision making. Making Social Investments.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D. Welcome to Research Friday ! He established Twin Cities Rise! , welfare).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students. He strategically includes images of students from Pajaro Valley High, so when he asks, “See anyone you know on here?” Hanging out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Caitlin tells it like it is--the nitty gritty of starting up an NGO, and why she believes it is important to help the people you are serving to create the change they want to see, not to create the change for them. As a result, it is hard to convince people that we are about helping them lead their own projects using existing resources.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse. We also hope that this look into the world of upcoming games is helpful to potential funders out there. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. They can create the change makers.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. One of our first programs is our culinary school in Port-Au-Prince, which helps train aspiring chefs from Haiti and give them the skills they need to obtain jobs in Haiti’s growing tourism industry. It was from that experience that World Central Kitchen was born.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

After a decade of steady development, Cloud for Good sought to continue to give back to the amazing communities that helped us get to where we are today. Cloud for Good has helped thousands of organizations create transformational value through the Salesforce platform. I can’t say enough about the help we received, pro bono.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. Second, Empowerment.

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JUNE 12, 2023

leadership, collaboration, empowerment). Scott served as the Director of the Longhorn Band at The University of Texas, where he discovered his love of fundraising while raising $25M in support for his students and the program. About The Root Agency The Root Agency helps philanthropy take root and grow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It was my birthday and the culmination of a campaign to raise money for Cambodian children that I used an action learning project for the students. We actually eat chocolate in class as part of the exercise! So Bhatia’s business partner, Robert Chatwani , used social media tools to implement a Help Sameer campaign. Tell your story.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Defining the connection between IT and your mission will help your organization thrive and fulfill its mission more efficiently, allowing you, in turn, to create more impact in the world. Why are we running our own help desks? Why do Imagine Cup students develop more field-based IT innovation in 9 months than nonprofits in 5 years?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

It could be chosen for reasons related to the institution''s mission (for example, a focus on youth empowerment) or for reasons related to the market demographics (for example, a growing number of Latinos). This helps us with program planning: we know who we are "under-engaging" and can work to involve them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Because it was my first time meeting the students, part of the half hour was spent getting to know each other. I highly recommend volunteering with young people, whether they are as little as a kindergartner, or as old as a college student. I find it helps keep life in perspective. Be flexible.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 23, 2023

For example, if your nonprofit focuses on youth empowerment, platforms like Instagram and Snapchat might be more effective than LinkedIn. This will help you make informed decisions on where to invest your time and resources for maximum impact. Do your research and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each platform.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. American Nicaraguan Foundation :: @ ANF.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Virtual Parent/Family Education - Richard Wollenberger This tool will provide video chat help for parents with children aged P-5/6; Trained parent educators will provide research-based support for specific early childhood issues via video chat. Solution: Guidance to help nonprofits connect the dots among their initiatives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community. Do not isolate.

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