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Unlocking the Power of APIs: The SKY is the Limit!

sgEngage

But your teachers, students, and families are pleased with it, you signed that multi-year contract, and changing to a different SIS/LMS is basically as strenuous and labor intensive as building a new house by yourself (assuming you aren’t a contractor and, if you are, thanks for reading this very non-contractor-focused post). It wasn’t great.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also want to them to discover and follow their own sense of social activism and philanthropy and become Philanthroteens , teens with a passion for social change who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or not to be connected to Facebook. I recently keynoted the Social Good Brazil Conference in November.

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5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I know that might seem old fashioned, but being a trainer and facilitator and in the room with social change leaders is what inspires and energizes me. This year, I will do master classes in London, Croatia, and Poland. Resilience is what allows you to recover from change or hardship, whether in the workplace or life in general.

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Learning in the White Space: 5 Unintended Lessons from a Marketing Class

NTEN

A couple of weeks ago, I stepped into my first marketing class excited to learn and meet some new people in my still-smells-like-new home base in New Jersey. I discovered there were rich lessons in the "white space" of class. It's a class about marketing, right? By Lindsay Bealko, Principal, Toolkit Consulting.

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E-Readers for Everyone: Teaching Tips Webinar

Tech Soup

Librarian Brenda Hough will discuss how library instructors are successfully navigating this sea of change. Many libraries offer tutorials, in-person classes, and drop-in labs on how to use e-books. Learn more about e-reader teaching tips during TechSoup's free 30-minute webinar.

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Doing Your Appeal In-house? 5 Tips to Save Time & Money

Get Fully Funded

But for now, you’ll do your appeal in-house and use the first-class Forever Stamp. First-class stamps. And there are plenty of online resources that can teach you the basics. Then reimport the list to your system to save those changes for good! Of course, USPS makes you jump through hoops for that discount.

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Changing lives through financial empowerment

ASU Lodestar Center

For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. One of the first classes I organized at the YW was for a group of young teenage mothers.