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How Malala Fund’s Innovative Grantmaking is Revolutionizing Education for Girls

Saleforce Nonprofit

Remote learning for refugee children in Lebanon: Malala Fund Education Champion Nayla Fahed created Tabshoura, an award-winning e-learning platform that helps Syrian refugees and girls in vulnerable communities in Lebanon learn for free. Malala Fund is partnering with ACE Charity in Nigeria to provide children.

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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

sgEngage

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask.

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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To communicate his thoughts, he uses an alternative augmentative communication device. According to his mom, this experience is common to children with Cerebral Palsy. Zach has Cerebral Palsy , which causes movement and coordination problems, and which keeps him from speaking and walking.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Putting this best practice into action, in 2019—two years after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico—the Amgen Foundation awarded $257,500 to the University of Puerto Rico for rebuilding efforts. . Alternatively, you can prepare your grants information using this template. With wildfires posing an increasing threat in the U.S.,

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Which of Your Fundraising Events Need Online Waivers?

Get Fully Funded

Parents of picky eaters may need to prepare back-up snacks or meals for their children. Then, they can read about what foods will be present at the event and take necessary precautions like bringing medication or alternative foods in order to safely attend. Events for first-time supporters. Events with photographers.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. According to TechCrunch , Bloglines experienced a major outage, leaving many who use bloglines taking a serious look at alternative RSS readers and exporting and backing up our OPML files.

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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

ASU Lodestar Center

I am a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at Arizona State University and work for the ASU Lodestar Center. Catholic Relief Services uses microfinancing to create alternatives to migration, and Solace International , headquartered in Tucson, invests in social entrepreneurship. In fact, though the U.S.