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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

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If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. You answered our call for donations so students could move off our waiting list and into classrooms. In Haiti, a typical adult has just five years of schooling, and the literacy rate is just 53 percent.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

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We wanted to know how technology use has changed in volunteer management, especially through the pandemic. As one CVA with a medical nonprofit explained: Our volunteer workforce demographic is changing. The changes in technology are more difficult for some of our older volunteers.”. and Canada about their technology use.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. Interested in games for learning and social change. Emphasis is on digital literacy. How do you measure the change?

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags. While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences.

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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. MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications? He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. It starts in the home.

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