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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

To illustrate, Cilente Skendall shared that one activity not considered “service” by most respondents was “alternative breaks”—short trips designed to provide students with “service immersion experiences.” The students also emphasized that service increased their sense of agency.

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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Having learning disabilities or various learning differences, they need alternative reading environments that rely on their strengths rather than on their weaknesses. with a collection of over 126,000 books (and counting) that currently serves more than 148,000 members, including over 143,000 students. There are some 7.5

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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

sgEngage

My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.” These technologies can do everything from poetry to code to digital art to research to essay writing.

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The Ultimate Guide to Accounting Software for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Instead of only being able to report your overall funding totals, fund accounting allows you can report the total number of students supported, the total dollars that were dispersed, average award size, and other key statistics. Some options also have features to track student information, HR functions, and payroll.

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Reframe, commit, and expand: How to meaningfully invest in Black leaders

Candid

Leaders like Oluwatoyin Ayanfodun (Toyin) , founder of Tomorrow’s Leaders NYC (TLNYC) which has supported 2,000 over-age middle school students across New York to defy the statistics. They’re dreaming and building an alternative world that commits to removing oppression—not reforming it.

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Scholarships in the Time of COVID-19: A Conversation with UW Madison

Connection Cafe

Their fundraising team got to work right away raising emergency funds to help students who were impacted financially by the pandemic. Once that money was raised, Keith and his team began making awards and disbursing the money to their students. Going virtual does bring some added work on the front end.

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8 Nonprofits Championing Environmental Sustainability on Earth Day

Classy

When our lives shifted around social distancing rules, our appreciation for the environment bloomed. Organization Mission: I Love A Clean San Diego County leads and inspires the community to conserve and enhance the environment. Kick Start Your Movement With Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. I Love a Clean San Diego County.

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