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3 Nonprofits Doing Cool Things With Tech

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Walden Woods Project uses Skype to reach classrooms. Teachers are connecting speakers from across the globe to their classrooms, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports. The supporters were automatically directed to their state legislator when they responded so they could voice their opinion.

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Salesforce.org CEO Rob Acker’s Year-End Reflections

Saleforce Nonprofit

We partnered with organizations like UNICEF in their critical work to prevent depression and anxiety in children. And we helped equip educators to better engage with thousands of students when classrooms had to become virtual. It has been a year of challenge and change. How can I connect with them? How can I lift their spirits?

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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

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and her children into an apartment, provide furnishings in partnership with our local furniture bank, and enroll her in a certification program so she can increase her income. “I Use my Kitchen Table Exercise to develop your conversational writing voice. You can do a voice over and subtitle the video to provide context.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. People may use an alternative keyboard or keyboard emulator, a Braille input device, a mouse emulator, optical character recognition, or voice recognition software like Dragon software.

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Creating Positive Change through Music: Interview with Christina Murray

Have Fun - Do Good

For the last several years, Symphony Nova Scotia has been changing children’s lives with music. Through its Education and Community Outreach programs, the Symphony helps bring music into the lives of over 14,000 school children each year - students who may not otherwise have access to a symphony.

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Part Ex-Con, Part Farmer, Part Queen

Museum 2.0

Today, there are thirty kids fidgeting in a classroom, talking to their friends, messing with their phones. After offering up these four keys, Doron energizes the classroom with a challenge. Before their teen years, children are sponges. It is the internal voice suggesting what they might and might not want to do.

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Creating Auction Marketing Materials: 5 Storytelling Tips

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Additionally, you might highlight some reading-themed gift baskets among your auction items that might appeal to parents who want to encourage their children to read more. Let’s say your last school auction earned enough revenue to purchase interactive whiteboards for all of your classrooms. Incorporate compelling visuals.