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Microsoft's YouthSpark Initiative Seeks to Close the Opportunity Divide

Tech Soup

Year Up is just one of the five nonprofit organizations Microsoft has partnered with along with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, City Year, Junior Achievement USA (JA), and Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. More Resources. Microsoft YouthSpark Hub. TechSoup for Libraries: Edge Benchmarks: Gadget Instruction.

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. Pay attention to what’s not there—your missing data. Why get good at Excel? My favorite housekeeping skill is freezing panes. Collecting and using data is hard work!

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An Interview with Silvia Tolisano of Langwitches Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The past five years I have been teaching Spanish at an Elementary School and serve as the school???s I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. I enjoy sitting down with my girls and teach them about the tools that I am experimenting with. s webmaster. Why did you start Langwitches blog?

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

By announcing this in many press interviews, I've managed to create lots of external pressure on myself to get this done! The great news is how much attention social entrepreneurship is getting. Route 66 Literacy Our newest project is Route 66 Literacy, and it includes a demonstration site that anyone can try out.

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New Pew Research Report: The Future of Digital Life and Well-Being

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Pew interviewed technology experts and scholars (including me) about the benefits and drawbacks of our digital lives. Attention economy and surveillance society. Schools must teach digital street smarts … from an early age, kids should learn about bots and automatically-generated content. 11, 2017, and Jan.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

I had the opportunity to interview her on March 6th for the Big Vision Podcast, and have included an edited transcript of the interview below. We have been seeing an increased attention that women's rights groups have been bringing to this whole question of globalization and migration, and how women workers are being affected by this.

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