Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Reading Eggs is ideal for organizations that work with literacy among children and want to motivate them through games. The goal of Reading Eggs is to support each child by offering lessons tailored to each student that allow them to progress at their own rate. How Does It Work? What's Available. Testimonials. spanhidden.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For many students, these school closures could mean the end of their formal education. Content is available in Arabic, French, and English, and it adheres to Lebanese school curriculum to ensure students don’t get behind when in-person classes resume. Syrian refugees and Lebanese students learn for free. . .

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

With consumer spending fueling 70% of our nation’s economic growth, the need to consume commercial products has forever been a staple in American culture. It has been amazing to see the impact financial literacy can have on a person, and just how crucial financial literacy is on the future of our young people. Like this article?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. Consider third grade student Brennan Draves. Brennan Draves and his mother, Lindsay Draves, at school. Martus Desktop 4.5

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Students can raise money by selling products from a selected catalog that they can hand out to potential buyers. Reading challenge Issue a community-wide reading challenge this spring to encourage literacy in your community. Brochure fundraiser Brochure fundraisers are a great option for schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2007

The new media literacies web site is working to integrate new media materials into compelling activities for K-12 students for use in or out of school. Basic Production 4. From Steve Garfield's Flickr Stream. Henry Jenkins is the Team Leader. There are tons of excellent resources here! The series covers the following topics: 1.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In all seriousness, 2013 has been an incredibly busy and productive year for us. Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Round three of #CelebrateAdobeCC — our three-month contest highlighting how nonprofits use Adobe products to spotlight their work and mission — is a wrap. Who would have thought that Games of Thrones and bingo, with some help from Adobe products, could go so well together? Check out their submissions below. But they do!

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2016

He further explains commercial branding does not work for nonprofit organizations because it focuses on abstract ideals of products or services. Her career has been dedicated to helping students and professionals reach their full potential, including years of service in English and literacy at the secondary and higher education levels.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Attendees will learn how to build traffic, create brand awareness, improve customer service and develop better use of digital tools internally to drive more productive business outcomes.

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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. At the end, I would have paid any amount of money for this new product. I believe in the power of books to change the world. It was a magical hour.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

These tools can help organizations that work with individuals who have general writing concerns, English language learners, people with learning disabilities or physical handicaps in typing, people with dyslexia or recovering from strokes, and even those learning literacy and spelling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

It's great to see someone still using one of our products to access books for this length of time. The goal of this repository is to ensure that students with print disabilities have easy access to textbooks. Perhaps it's because I work in the fields of disability, literacy and human rights.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Chris Jarvis (2010) points out that volunteer programs can offer additional skill development, improved morale and productivity, as well as a more cooperative corporate culture. Annette is a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at ASU.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Benetech doesn't give technology away, but instead develops socially beneficial and affordable products and services that are not financially attractive to for-profit companies. During Arkenstone's 11 years, Benetech sold literacy products under the Arkenstone brand in more than a dozen languages to over 35,000 individuals in 60 countries.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Ken Homer is the founding partner of Collaborative Conversations - Include More Voices, Make Better Choices , a consultancy offering numerous approaches to bring people together in ways that are both productive and fulfilling. Ken is currently working as the Worldview Literacy Project Manager at The Institute of Noetic Sciences.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2016

Cultural Vistas is a nonprofit cultural exchange organization that gives young professionals and students the opportunity to work in another country and develop their skills. Benefit Cosmetics has distinctive packaging, campy names for its products, and some of the best copy out there. Nonprofit Example #1: Cultural Vistas.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. New Heights Educational Group is an educational support and literacy center for families with children who are struggling in school. HART for Animals.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec gives a lot back to the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup — See what organizations like yours are saying about their donated Symantec products. Symantec also has an abundance of other corporate social responsibility efforts going on as well.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2024

Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, legacy systems, data literacy, and access to skills. Having that same supplier relationship across all stages of the technology lifecycle ensures access to external expertise on an ongoing basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

Use of blogs for student poetry journals and for instructor "mini-lessons" 2. 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. for Educators. These can be easily blogged as mini-lessons.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

One corporate chief executive offered extensive in-kind support for our digital literacy enterprises that provide the disabled access to talking books and teach reading to teenagers and adults who are not yet literate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Rheingold suggests that is an example of social media literacy: Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The great majority of social enterprises are nonprofit organizations dedicated to the social good through employing disadvantaged people, educating students, improving the environment, advancing health care, respect for human rights and so many other beneficial activities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The gift shop features wonderful products created by disadvantaged communities that PDA works with, since poverty is a huge factor in procreation and vulnerability to disease. All of the staff have name badges identifying them either as students or teachers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Most tech companies think this is the most counter-productive job and innovation killing bill they’ve seen in years.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

He spoke about FCC's expansive efforts to increase "digital literacy" for both individuals and small businesses. Simmons noted Missouri farmers would gain if they were able to offer products over the Internet through commodity trading or marketing.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The idea behind ‘passive income’ is to create a product or a lead generation tool that’s evergreen enough to attract customers (or donors) with minimal future upkeep. A high school or college student who’s looking for experience in digital marketing could be a great candidate. And most of its practices exist thanks to the Internet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2012

Create an ethical and sustainable food production and distribution system: @ SlowFoodUSA , @ FarmSanctuary. Prevent students from dropping out of high school and increase literacy: @ CISNational , @ FirstBook. Respond rapidly and efficiently to natural and humanitarian crises: @ TheIRC , @ ShelterBox.

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