EveryAction

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Children's Literacy Initiative. The Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) began as a way to provide collections of excellent children’s books & trainings in reading-aloud to teachers in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Star Wars: Force for Change. Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. We use technology today to help hundreds of thousands of students with disabilities succeed in school, as well as help human rights activists around the world document abuses and seek justice.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Areas served: Worldwide. Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Kresge Foundation.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Byte Back is a nonprofit computer skills and career training center located in Washington, D.C. In the mid-1990s, Glenn met with his friend Barbara Altman to share his idea of opening a computer and career training center in Honduras. Students build a solid foundation to learn more in a professional track. DC needs you and this.

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

A few months ago, I attended Microsoft Citizenship's YouthSpark Connection event and heard first-hand from recent high school graduates about how dire the need for digital literacy is. Defining Digital Literacy. But first, what exactly is digital literacy? Additionally, some students don't have digital access at home.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. This is one reason why our Human Rights Field Team is supporting LGBTI rights groups from the Caribbean to the African regions with targeted Martus and capacity building trainings. But what about everybody else?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

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. Most people never receive any formal financial training. There are no courses in our public school systems that teach students how to use a. We need to find a way to.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

On August 2-3, I attended the 5th biennial Money for Our Movements (MFOM) social justice fundraising conference in Baltimore, Maryland, convened by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. Special thanks to the mighty team at the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training! Here''s what they said.

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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. Students develop and run a business, gain confidence, academic support, and mentorship. " Program is creating new distribution channels for affordable produce to low-income people. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

The study reveals that current leaders in the local nonprofit sector believe the skills most needed in the nonprofit workforce are financial literacy, communication (verbal and writing skills), knowledge of laws pertaining to the nonprofit sector, information technology, volunteer management, and donor cultivation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

New Heights, by promoting literacy through a wide range of programs, has produced radical results. Not every student can be reached in person. For New Heights to realize its dream of fair and equal education, it must use remote work tools to connect with students directly in their homes. Inspiring Optimism Through Results.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2016

Kris Rutledge is the Editor, a contributor and a content manager for CausePlanet.org , a thriving professional development website for nonprofit executives, featuring Page to Practice™ book summaries, articles and training.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. First of all, they provide training for school staff and teachers on using the computers in education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may remember that my family and I sponsor a college student, Leng Sopharath, with the help of many of you. The programs include an orphanage, a pre-school, college and high school sponsorship, vocational training (sewing and computer school), and more. It's a route out of poverty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

We have an opportunity to receive a couple of OLPCs for our literacy program at our farming project (we school the kids of farmers who we train to farm the land, sell vegetables, proceeds go into micro loan fund.).

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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. Join us at ILA to learn how to break through the challenges of shifting practices, advocate for all students, and make a difference in and out of the classroom. Feb 21 - 24. Oct 10 - 13.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

" Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. For example, in post-earthquake Haiti, Dd trained and empowered local women to track and document incidents of gender-based violence.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Jarvis (2010) claims that volunteer programs have the capacity to save corporations $500 per employee in training, recruitment and turnover expenses. Annette is a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at ASU. She previously served a term for AmeriCorps with an adult literacy program in Flagstaff.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

And, organizations that provide workforce and job skills training can share easyLearning courses with constituents. The National Commission on writing stated that 80 percent of grade school students are not proficient at writing. Check out guides to available online tools for training staff. Don't forget!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Veterans Organic Garden is a visionary job training and rehabilitation program for disabled veterans developed by Lovay Wallace-Singleton. The project provides paid internships and organic gardening job skills training for unemployed and low-income veterans, as well as rehabilitation therapy through gardening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. Looking at how to be less of training but more on learning. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Funded the infrastructure, and less well on content. Interested in games for learning and social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. enhanced cultural and technical literacy, not just an ability to reuse materials, but a willingness to do so.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing. Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories about how this work has impacted individual students' lives?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served. “We are serving X number of students right now.” And for a good reason.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training. If you’re looking for a good place to start, set up a series of leadership workshops geared towards high school students with an interest in fostering positive change.

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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. While the US is 24th worldwide in broadband adoption, the real gap is found in low-income urban households and rural areas in the US.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

The amazing thing about serving 100,000 students right now is that our commitment to the U.S. Department of Education was to serve 100,000 students by the end of our five-year contract in late 2012. Men being trained to use Martus to enter testimonies.Our human rights team is active all over the world.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

For All. -- is all about digital inclusion, digital literacy, and working to close the many digital divides we face in our global society. In Los Angeles, they"re hosting an event called "Access to Teknowledgy" for parents, teachers, students and staff at a local school. This year's theme -- One Web.

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