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Growing Readers: Free Webinars for Early Childhood Orgs

Tech Soup

The Early Learning Lab , Frontiers of Innovation , and New Profit , along with partners Joan Ganz Cooney Center and TechSoup, are working together to build the technology capacity of the early childhood education field. Media Mentors: Building Literacy Skills for the Digital Age. In short, young children need media mentors.

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Michelle’s RiseUP Fellowship Experience: RiseUP Fellow to Full Time Employee

Media Cause

I’ll stop hiding the recipe in the middle of my childhood stories and get to the meat that you’re scanning this blog for—at the beginning of 2021, I applied and was chosen alongside two others for the RiseUP Fellowship Program. Applying for the RiseUP Fellowship Program.

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What strategies can nonprofit leaders use to move program beneficiaries into program partners?

ASU Lodestar Center

She is a mentor coach with the Greater Phoenix Urban League Head Start, which strives to bring quality education to Phoenix’s preschool-aged children. Jennifer Kirksey is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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Research Friday: Branding in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

With the new name “New Pathways For Youth” the organization wanted to rebrand itself as a movement that gives Phoenix area youth a new opportunities by providing them with positive adult mentors. While working for Teach for America, Alex will be pursuing his master of arts degree in early childhood education at Loyola Marymount University.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

The Emeril Lagasse Foundation provides grants related to nutrition and culinary education, life skills development, childhood hunger, and arts education. The Foundation’s mission is to create opportunities to inspire, mentor, and enable youth to reach their full potential through culinary, nutrition, and arts education.

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3 Tech Hints for Stronger Peer-to-Peer Campaigns

Achieve

Better yet, returning volunteers that have already been through your onboarding process should be able to hit the ground running with their next campaign, and perhaps even mentor novice peer-to-peer fundraisers. . Volunteers may choose to return for your next peer-to-peer campaign, reducing the number of new volunteers you’ll need to recruit.

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just as media and technology have affected the nature of childhood and education, they’ve also affected the nature of parenting. Parents and other adult mentors are looking for guidance and appreciate opportunities to discuss their questions, frustrations, and hopes when it comes to their kids’ digital lives.

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