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Everything You Need to Know About Data You Learned in Kindergarten

NTEN

One of the most important social skills they work on in my daughter's classroom? Sharing is important because a) it's just the nice thing to do and b) sharing helps build the classroom community. Sharing the book or toy gives both children the common experience that forms the classroom culture. She offered to share.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. An increasing number of public libraries are discovering TechSoup donations, but few are maxing them out like Waukesha Public Library in Wisconsin. " Legacy of Hope Austin.

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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

Network for Good put together a slideshow of the home pages of 10 nonprofits that are hitting it out of the ball park by being clear in their message and making it easy for a visitor to engage further or donate. Learn more about our flipped classroom model, what you can look forward to learning when you''re there, and register!

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Blog Action Day: Can One Person Make A Difference? Challenging Poverty With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.  In the classroom, I got to hear a lot of theories as to why poverty exists - but that actually made things seem more confusing. I'm loosing weight to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank in Austin

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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and a sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

Network for Good put together a slideshow of the home pages of 10 nonprofits that are hitting it out of the ball park by being clear in their message and making it easy for a visitor to engage further or donate. Learn more about our flipped classroom model, what you can look forward to learning when you''re there, and register!

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iCared with lots of others for Convio Cares Week

Connection Cafe

The project that I volunteered at with fifteen other Convio employees was a classroom makeover for a local Austin school, Gus Garcia Middle School. As students passed by our classroom throughout the day while we were working I came to understand how important Communities in Schools is to each of them.

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Guest Post by Michaela Hackner: Community Matters Even At SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our communities vet good ideas, apply the "trust" layer, and motivate us to take real action — from donating to becoming an advocate. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.