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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s all about teaching digital literacy and citizenship: the knowledge and skills necessary to think critically, behave safely, and interact responsibly in a digital world. She lives in San Francisco and spends way too much time on Pinterest. Make it a whole-community priority. Contact Emily.

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The Art of Tech: Zero1 Festival App to Capture the Crowd

Tech Soup

Siembieda-Gribben structured the hackathon to maximize learning and shared knowledge. A Tech Advisory Committee of nine Bay Area technologists such as Kollective Mobile CEO Sian Morson mentored the teams. To have in place the starting point for an app to create a seamless visitor experience at the biennial.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching. Develop a Multilingual Online Learning Community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. We created a network map.

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Zerodivide seeks new board members

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Through mentors, professional networks and investor forums, ZeroDivide brings a deep knowledge of what makes a venture successful. Since our inception in 1998, almost $50 million has been invested through us in overcoming community-building barriers. But access to technology is just the starting point.

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Bay Area Nonprofit Collaborative Pilots High-Tech Social Service Referral System

Non Profit Quarterly

May 29, 2019; San Francisco Chronicle. Benetech, founded nearly two decades ago, has a mission to take the technology and knowledge Silicon Valley has figured out and move it into the nonprofit sector. For example, four of the agencies in the pilot had a listing for a San Francisco shelter for youths age 18 to 24.

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[VIDEO] 3 Steps To Closing $10K+ Gifts By December 31

Bloomerang

I think you’re going to want to do that after you hear her presentation because she’s just a wealth of knowledge. I get training, my employer pays for me to go to these conferences, webinars, but I prioritize that, but I really could use a mentor. And she really guided me and mentored me. Right, that was me.

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Why Tech Nonprofits Are Building Digital Tools for Racial Equity and Justice

Non Profit Quarterly

At in-person sessions in New York City and San Francisco, and virtually on Youtube Live , Demo Day brought together nine social entrepreneurs to explore solutions for problems they’ve experienced. Fast Forward, a tech nonprofit accelerator, highlighted a few such organizations during their Demo Day 2022 event.

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