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August Awareness: National Back to School Month

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With more families living in urban and suburban areas, some schools have shifted to a year-round or alternative academic calendar, but the majority of schools still keep a start date sometime in August, making it the perfect awareness month for back-to-school preparations. How to celebrate National Back to School Month. Junior Achievement.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Second, we are stepping up our efforts to increase the awareness of this critical issue and practical actions that can be taken. But what about everybody else?

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

The purpose of the conference is to expose future social sector leaders to a vibrant learning experience that promotes best practices, innovative thinking and awareness of the full scope of the sector. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. Nonprofit Management. 10/10/2019.

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MCON13: Working with Millennials

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In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management. It gives employees entry into a cause they might not be aware of. Fifth Third Foundation provides quarterly opportunities at work for staff to volunteer, often organized philanthropy efforts.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects. It starts in the home.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

The kids were everywhere, they're running around, they're cursing, they're throwing things, they're angry, they're upset, just everything coming out, and we would go out into the garden, and you would just see them relax, like just being outdoors, instead of in the classroom. Britt Bravo: What does a typical class day look like?

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52 Nonprofit Event Ideas That People Will Love

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By coming up with an unconventional—and difficult or trying—way for participants to show their support, your nonprofit can raise a lot of awareness and dollars for your cause. In this image, a group of adults sit in a classroom watching a teacher’s presentation.

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