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Youth Programs Featured in TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map

Tech Soup

It’s a place that provides educational and recreational services for autistic kids and also some adults. Places like ACA are pretty important. Because computers in classrooms are so important for disabled children, they make optimum use of the accessibility features in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.

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Youth Programs Featured in TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map

Tech Soup

It’s a place that provides educational and recreational services for autistic kids and also some adults. Places like ACA are pretty important. Because computers in classrooms are so important for disabled children, they make optimum use of the accessibility features in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. And they are already blowing us away.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. Kickstarter is a perfect place for nonprofits to appeal to small-time donors.

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Augmented Reality and Social Good: The Art of Creating Meaningful AR

Connection Cafe

You hear the buzz all over the place: augmented reality this, augmented reality that. Markerless: Markerless or location-based augmented reality relies on pegging the AR object to a specific place using GPS or digital compass. Imagine a scientist being able to work on the cure for cancer in 3D in the air around them.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. And they are already blowing us away.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?