Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When you work at a nonprofit or public library, it might feel like you constantly need to learn new skills to stay on top of emerging technology and adoption. Thankfully, there are many free or inexpensive training programs that can help you polish your technology skills. Digital Literacy Resources.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2011

their computer skills. How to Evaluate Your Digital Literacy Program Thursday, June 30, 11 a.m. Pacific In this free webinar , Linda Hofschire, Research. computer-related programs, those who support digital literacy programs, or BTOP. (Broadband Technology Opportunity Program) and are busy creating and updating.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We are excited to introduce a new, FREE guide to leveraging the SDG Connector for your organization. Let’s say your organization advocates for high-speed internet access in rural areas, helping students of all ages achieve digital literacy and support quality education.

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NTEN

APRIL 29, 2021

They create and implement ambitious projects to increase opportunities for adults in their communities to learn essential digital skills and receive grants to help launch their programs. Felicia Tillman, a fellow from Atlanta, formed partnerships to bring digital literacy training to uniquely sweet spaces. Learn more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

When you’re busy working towards fulfilling your nonprofit’s mission, it can be easy to forgo the time needed to invest in “auxiliary” tasks that build your skills and fuel your mission. These were skills that would have made the transition after COVID-19 began much smoother. What new skills do you want to cultivate?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

In partnership with these organizations, TechSoup will be hosting a series of webinars about technology and innovation for early childhood literacy organizations and researchers. If you work with young children at a nonprofit or library, this free webinar series is for you. Media Mentors: Building Literacy Skills for the Digital Age.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

Funders providing these types of gifts have a responsibility to trust their grantees to do what’s best for the organization while also supporting them with financial literacy. Interestingly, recommended solutions point to increasing financial literacy. Yet this will only happen if funders effectively “offer support beyond the check.”

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2016

Nurture Your Photoshop Skills. Fertilize your fundamental Adobe Photoshop skills at Wes Holing's 60-minute webinar for advanced Photoshop beginners on Thursday, March 10. Attend this webinar and help your Photoshop skills bloom this spring. Sprout Your Digital Literacy Training Program. Help Your Data Skills Flower.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

No matter where you are, there''s still a week left for you to hone your social media skills during Social Media September. TechSoup and NetSquared have put together a month of educational opportunities, from local events all over the world to day-long Twitter parties and a free webinar. Register now!

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Tech Soup

JULY 22, 2014

When you work for an active and dynamic nonprofit or charity, it might feel like you're constantly learning new skills or building knowledge in different areas. Thankfully, there are many free or inexpensive training programs that can help you polish your technology skills. Basic Computer and Digital Literacy Skills.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Byte Back is a nonprofit computer skills and career training center located in Washington, D.C. Glenn taught himself the skills needed to maintain and repair computers. They achieve this through transformative digital advocacy, digital literacy, and tech certification training. They simply had to prove they could fix a computer.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? 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. Defining Digital Literacy.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We hope to help paint a fuller picture, invite hard questions, and showcase the power of what these AIs are capable of with skillful prompting. Generative AI is more than a trend, it’s a pathway to redesign your workflows with a human-centric approach, freeing staff to take on greater challenges.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

In fact, his reading skills are above average and he is on track to be an honor roll student. To date, more than one thousand software professionals have signed up to lend their time and skills to SocialCoding4Good’s nonprofit project partners, and we are thrilled to support this growing contributor community with new leadership.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

They may also lack the support and resources they need to grow their skills and share their work with others. Solution: PowerPoetry.org is a nonprofit organization that provides a safe and supportive community where young people can share their poetry, connect with other poets, and grow their skills through free online resources and events.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

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. integrate financial literacy into our school systems, or at least make. Like this article?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every month, our meetup leaders host free in-person events in 60 cities. Toronto, Canada: Toronto Net Tuesday: Digital Literacy for Nonprofits. Baltimore, Maryland: Salesforce CRM Tutorial and Free Tech Help Session! Mukono, Uganda: Improved Skills and Competencies for Productive Web Literacy in Mayuge.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2016

But if you're not relaxing on a sandy beach, why not learn some new tech skills? Join TechSoup on August 23 for a tour of training resources available to help your nonprofit, library, church, and foundation staffers increase their technology literacy and grow their tech skills. OK, I may have exaggerated a tiny bit.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2014

Bringing mobile devices into adult library programs can be an excellent way to promote library e-media and teach digital literacy skills. Come to this free webinar to gain ideas for integrating mobile-devices into new and existing adult programs. Join us next Wednesday, July 30 at 11 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Despite the flexibility, comprehensiveness, and mainstream popularity of WordPress, it does require skill, which is fine if you're the independent type with a soft spot for customization. Still, some skill is required, and many libraries and nonprofits take this to heart, having limited capacity if something goes horribly wrong.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Although the challenges differ by region, the outcome is the same everywhere: young people are simply not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's workforce. Through the program, the native San Franciscan learned valuable business skills, received tech training, and made job connections. More Resources.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

Some Lifeline phone service providers also offer free mobile phones and minutes to low-income families. But now, some Lifeline telecom providers have begun offering free smartphones to Lifeline Program participants. They will create and promote digital literacy programs. The new NTEN fellows have just started their training.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] One 21st century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. Better yet, this professional development is a self-directed activity – and it’s free!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. Listening Literacy Skills Whether your nonprofit is using listening tools that are free or a professional tool to take a deeper dive, after you figure out who will do the listening and how to make it actionable , it's time to address the nitty gritty of what and how. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Last month I wrote a guest post for Brian Solis titled " Listening Literacy for Nonprofits " which outlines some of the basic how-tos. There's a new free listening tool in the tool box section ! Our session covered: Why listening offers value. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Six Ways To Make Listening A Practice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. They are very focused on education linked to vocational outcomes: the goal is to help these children move up the economic ladder with real job skills. Students get at least two computer sessions a week.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. Mission Assets Fund is scaling up its unique Lending Circles program, a social loan program that enables low-income people who are outside the banking system to lend and borrow with each other with interest-free social loans.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, education is essential to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Specifically the 1989 flame-red Ferrarri Trapper Keeper I walked into fourth grade with. --> While TechSoup may not have Trapper Keepers, we have tons of free and donated resources to keep any busy adult up to speed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Since May 2007, he and his crew have aided thousands of victims at 15 sites across the United States -- free of charge." Today, she offers hundreds of children who work in Phnom Penh's trash dump a way out through free schooling and job training." Maria Da Silva "Has lost 14 family members to AIDS.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

The program helps Vietnamese nonprofits to build staff capacity, apply for grants, and recruit skilled volunteers. The LIN mission is to foster a culture of philanthropy and social responsibility by providing support services to local nonprofits, skilled volunteers, and donors who are committed to building strong communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Social Listening Literacy Skills. Sign up for a free account and fill out your profile by adding an image and one-line bio and include a link to your site. How will you share the results of what you heard? Are you currently using RSS Reader? If so, what reader? How many feeds? Are you currently on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Because of the volume and using free tools, Wendy had to do a lot of heavy cut and paste to analyze, summarize, and distribute the information. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Drawing from my " Information Coping Skills for Humans " workshop circa 1999. I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I hope this sets me free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

The interplay between the rules and free play. Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Subvert the rules explore the limits of system propose alternate responses Great skills for social change. Subvert the rules explore the limits of system propose alternate responses Great skills for social change. Gaming is literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

Will work with the instructors or lab volunteers on these areas: Step 1: Identify Useful, High Quality Internet Resources Tech Skills: Internet Search Skills, Information Literacy. Step 3: Discovering additional resources through the social tagging experience Skills: How to find other related resources.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

"Affordable connections to the Internet are critical, but if we don't also address issues around affordable devices and, critically, the digital literacy and life skills to use those devices to go online, we will do nothing but change policy, and not impact the digital divide. "The rise of mobile.

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