Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

Taking Education to New Heights. Pamela Clark began New Heights Educational Group in 2006, as part of a lifelong commitment to education. Pamela, inspired by her grandmother, saw an obligation to fight against these problems through education. It just clicked to me that I knew I could make this better."

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

The America's Giving Challenge will award $50,000 to the project that gets the most unique donors. Our project on Global Giving focuses on literacy which is key to education and jobs for poor children. The literacy school runs three sessions a day for 130 children of Roteang village???s It's a route out of poverty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

As I learned from Alejandro, Mr. Luis’s family and other High Andean families have little access to education and training, dramatically limiting their job opportunities despite living in one of the fastest growing adventure tourism destinations in South America. The Llama Pack Project does more than provide income.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

We expect to significantly improve access to books that blind people in India need for their education, employment and inclusion in society. You can read more about how this project will create lasting impact in India in a blog post by Betsy Beaumon , VP and General Manager of our Global Literacy Program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

of America v. The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. This ruling by the Supreme Court in Sony Corp. copyright law.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Hydra Mendoza, the San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner and the Mayor's Education and Family Services Advisor, provided some sobering statistics about the opportunity gap in San Francisco and worldwide unemployment. "There's a need to grow a highly educated workforce from within," Mendoza said.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Subscribers will also be given access to free digital literacy training. This will (hopefully) enable hundreds of thousands of low-income people to begin using free cloud services like Google Docs and Microsoft Office Web Apps, and wide array of online educational programs to name just a few examples. What Is the Digital Divide?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

Educating your staff about best security practices is also important for protecting your organization and constituents' privacy. Educate Your Constituents. " If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

Educating your staff about best security practices is also important for protecting your organization and constituents' privacy. Educate Your Constituents. " Gangadharan suggests that educators need to develop expertise to handle questions on this sensitive subject. Do you educate your constituents on privacy topics?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 29, 2008

My friend Beth Kanter, of Beth's Blog , is working hard to win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation by January 31, 2008 as part of the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

I had just read a paper about the LINCOS project in Central America, so this was fresh in my mind. This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. First of all, they provide training for school staff and teachers on using the computers in education.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." " New Heights Educational Group. New Heights Educational Group is an educational support and literacy center for families with children who are struggling in school. Image 6: Veterans Organic Garden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

Since her parents work in the Sharing Foundation's farm program, she attended the Foundation's Khmer Literacy School which helped her enter the local village school. Her family has been willing let her pursue her education instead of working in the fields. Leda, a young child, was abandoned in a local market.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

It’s similar to how calling someone “a natural” can inadvertently undermine the years of training and education people have gone through to achieve their skillset. When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” This is because literacy is not a binary descriptor, as it is often made to seem.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Now seems like a good time for nonprofits to educate their constituents about the privacy issues surrounding these and other smart objects. In just the field of journalism we now have The Intercept , Global Investigative Journalism Network , ProPublica , New America Media , Internews … need I go on? " My Final Prediction.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. HECUA (Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs) in Minnesota has a Writing for Social Change Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Jennifer Paterson Dempsy, The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada Just recently I asked for help within my social network at Twitter to spread the word about something I am very passionate about, Braille Literacy. I used a cli.gs link [link] so I could track traffic to the link. Lisa McClure The 12for12k project - [link]. -

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness. Chicago Foundation For Women.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness. Chicago Foundation For Women.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

While she may have had to lie about her age to get an education , Zora Neale Hurston went on to become one of the most prolific writers at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. Originally from California, Harriet Chalmers Adams lived a life that saw her travel through South America, Asia, and the South Pacific. Thought Leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2008

The America's Giving Challenge will be over in another ten days. s Khmer Literacy School has provided huge opportunity. Nhuong says,"I understand how difficult it is to obtain an education when you have no money and more importantly when food and clothing are scarce. Mon Chany is in the middle. Mon Chany's Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

An island-wide educational campaign in Puerto Rico to educate people on the importance of spaying and neutering and vaccinating their dogs and cats, in hopes of alleviating the drastic conditions for the 100,000+ “satos” (street dogs) that are homeless and roaming the beaches and streets of PR. We’re the Safe America Foundation.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 2, 2014

But as educators and. exclusion rise every day in terms of missed opportunities in education, healthcare and employment. relevance for everyone – for work, education, healthcare, and more. ” Another reason for low Internet adoption is a lack of digital literacy skills. We see the people who are.

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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). We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2012

Hold corporate-owned media accountable to its democratic purpose to educate (not manipulate) the masses: @ AccuracyInMedia , @ NPR. Educate about the reality of rampant childhood sexual abuse in America: @ Darkness2Light. Educate about the realities of climate change in the 21st Century: @ TckTckTck.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. I think the biggest challenge for us is trying to make hard decisions.

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