Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Schools are back in session, and with them millions of American children who struggle daily to learn using traditional printed books. This includes accessible educational materials, such as e-books that can be used with computers, or mobile devices that display enlarged text or read the book aloud while also highlighting text.

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JULY 3, 2023

Nonprofits to donate to Harwood Center The Harwood Center is a private nonprofit agency that provides education, therapy, and support for Mid-South families and children who have developmental disabilities. Donate to support their mission here. Donate to support their mission here.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What circumstances or situation are you trying to educate your followers about? For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. And the hero has a desire to overcome that problem.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

Hero language: When you tell a donor that your nonprofit wouldn’t exist without them, you are speaking the truth. Hero languages reinforces the idea that they made the right choice and increases the possibility that they will give again. But the rules are a bit different around IRS language. So why be shy about saying it?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

He has many years of experience in Military and Supply Chain Operations Management, with an educational background in accounting, operations management, project management and a Lean Six Sigma certification. Lead Associate, Food Security, Save the Children. VP of Operations and Logistics, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle. Rachel Machen.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Unlike the.ORG domain which can be registered by any individual or brand (but mostly registered by nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits), the new.NGO and.ONG domains can only be registered by nonprofits, charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and ONGs (non-governmental organizations in a romance-based language ).

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

In their research project “Exploring the Love Language of Fundraising,” Jen and Adrian are uncovering how often the nonprofit sector focuses on money within their messaging – “Your gift can” or “Thank you for your donation” – which establishes a transactional relationship with them. They also uncovered how “It’s not about how we talk to them.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

An example of innovative AI is The Yeshi chatbot, created by Charity, which educates people about clean water. It operates in many languages via access through the low-band internet. . The Children’s Society in the UK launched an AI-powered chatbot, which supports the underserved children in the Wales and England region.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 5, 2019

It’s why children are taught essential functions at an early age: they haven’t yet learned the wrong way to do things. Movement, language, mannerisms—it’s crucial that these fundamentals are properly taught to avoid the potentially painstaking unlearning process during adolescence. Just ask any parent.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Inclusion – Change management gives your organization a framework with the language and instructions needed to ensure all stakeholders have a chance to voice their viewpoints. Read more from Catherine Moore and Heller Consulting: 4 Steps to Better Higher Education Donor Engagement. Where to Start: First Steps of Change Management.

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MAY 11, 2011

By Andy Krackov, Assistant Vice President, Programs & Partnerships, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health At the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, we publish data on children's health and well being in California through our own www.kidsdata.org website.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

These guidelines can apply to all sectors of the nonprofit landscape: Use “person-first” language. The post Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling appeared first on Fundraising Blog for Nonprofit, Educational, and Faith-Based Organizations. Focus on the individual, not their circumstance.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Senior Humanitarian Climate Crisis Advisor, Save the Children International. Emma Visman.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too. The kind of food that nourishes the mind and body, and is foundational to growth and many other critical human needs, like education, housing, jobs, and transportation. Food insecurity. Nutrition insecurity. But technology alone isn’t the answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

Why shouldn’t visually impaired and disabled students in the United States have easy access to the study of the languages? From the week of March 30 to April 4, five Bookshare training sessions took place in four of the island’s Service Centers for Special Education. They took place in Las Piedras, Bayamon, Hormigueros, and Ponce.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

And that’s not to mention the hassle that sometimes comes with trying to get young children excited about reading. While read-a-thons are a great fundraising idea for nonprofits of all kinds, they’re the perfect fundraiser for schools, libraries, and education nonprofit organizations. Final thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Together we'll be making some awesome wine over the course of a year to benefit @ roomtoread , and with each case sold they'll be able to supply about 60 local language children's books to educate the 300 million kids around the world who can't read. Good wine has never been better!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2012

This is twice the rate of Caucasians and even within the tweeting Latino community there is a breadth of diversity in terms of race, socioeconomic background, immigration status and English-language capabilities. Our ACA story headlined Las Blogueras (hashtag #lasblogueras), a largely Spanish-language Twitter newsletter with 15,000 readers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Doare built the platform, both multi-language and multi-currency, so people can donate anywhere. The top three causes are medical expenses (31%), education costs (18%), and veterinary expenses (17%). We’re in the 2nd edition and last year we had people donate from more than 13 different countries. 47% attend fundraising events.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2020

But here are some of my reflections from this year in museum work: Camp Life: I came to camping late and through my children. By not saying what we meant or using language to mask our intentions, we’d decreased our ability to do good. Once you feel ready, you should start making not only educated guesses but also educated actions.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

I saw the look of hope on the children’s face and how they began to envision a future filled with possibility.” This in turn leads to improved education, health and economic opportunities.” They had little financial resources to provide a stable and secure home for their kids. Why should they care?

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. "The library is a place for lifelong education, and needs to resonate with the community. " Library-Specific Curriculum.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

inappropriate language, pornography, and other questionable influences. Attention: Schools, Libraries and Other Educational Institutions. Educational organizations walk a fine line: enabling student access. districts, from blocking and filtering to teaching children to be. Key Considerations for Educators.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. Curiosity got the better of me, and that’s how I met Bob Whicker, a K-12 Education Development Executive for Apple.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

The native people of Guam are called Chamorros, and the language is resurgent. We met with the special education directors and curriculum chiefs of each state. I also got to meet Gregg San Nicolas, with the Department of Defense Education Agency, who provided several of the pictures in this post (thanks, Gregg!).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Something in the photos and the language on the page pulled me in and made me care. I have given to an organization that provides education and wrap-around services to teenagers in a developing country so they can have a chance at a brighter future. For $82.50, you can provide education, room, and board for a student for one month.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. Our connection to Kenya remains strong; we are also the guardians for one of the children from that orphanage, @sammyikua , who now studies in Maine.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2012

Danielle Rodabaugh , Educational Outreach Editor. Thousands of individual surety bond types exist, each providing a specific type of financial protection that depends on the bond's purpose and its contractual language. at SuretyBonds.com. Despite their individual differences, all commercial bond types work in the same basic way.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 9, 2008

So, in Hong Kong and in Beijing we saw sensory stimulation rooms for these children. We visited the English language classroom. As we headed out to visit the vocational education building, we found Jimmy Young scrimmaging with some of the blind soccer players. The other amazing thing was how clear the weather was in Beijing.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For example, an education foundation may want to invite parents of current students to an event differently than community members who do not have children in the district. . For sponsorship requests , consider asking past sponsors using different language than you would businesses that haven’t supported your organization before.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For example, an education foundation may want to invite parents of current students to an event differently than community members who do not have children in the district. . For sponsorship requests , consider asking past sponsors using different language than you would businesses that haven’t supported your organization before.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 21, 2011

1] Education, religion, age, and income are some variables that are typically studied in relationship to formal giving and volunteering, informal or personal giving and volunteering, and secular and religious volunteering (Sundeen, Garcia, and Wang, 2007). [2] Based on past research, these findings are unexpected.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

And they're doing this using the programming language Java on their laptops. With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. He saw the potential of Java as a language and tried to expose Vineet to it.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Ditch the industry jargon and formal language when writing or speaking with your supporters. Your donors have already proven they care about your cause—take advantage of that interest and educate them about important topics! You’re talking to people who have already indicated that they care about what you do and what you have to say.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Previously, Lisa served as the founding CEO of the 1:1 Fund, a project incubated by CFED to build a broad online and high net-worth donor base for children’s savings accounts. Lisa graduated from Mount Holyoke College with degrees in philosophy and critical social thought. Dress snazzy if you like, to be red-carpet ready.

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Classy

JUNE 10, 2021

Then simply grow your message around that language. A great example was given to attendees after the session, using a higher education organization. Their supporters may refer to those same beneficiaries as “our children” or “the future of our country”. Say that organization described its beneficiaries as “young people.”

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