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Changing lives through financial empowerment

ASU Lodestar Center

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. There are no courses in our public school systems that teach students how to use a.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

While nearly all of the volunteer managers we talked with were eager to get back to in-person work, many also recognized that the pandemic drove innovations in technology that helped them engage their volunteers in productive and exciting new ways. That was the silver lining. The [public] transit didn’t go there.”.

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Hadley China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

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. technological solution.

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American Indian Resource Center: A TechSoup Youth Organization Profile

Tech Soup

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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SAP Gives Back

Tech Soup

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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