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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The teacher introduced me as a visitor from America and asked if there the children wanted to ask me any questions. This prompted some amazing questions for children that age anywhere: How many jets did you take to get to India? I look forward to seeing how this start up transforms early childhood education in India.

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WORTH Trust Solves Tech Woes to Help More Kids in India

Tech Soup

India is home to 70 million people with different needs and abilities. WORTH, which stands for Workshop for Rehabilitation and Training of the Handicapped, aims to create opportunities for vocational training and avenues for employment for people with different needs in India.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

Global Fund For Children. Their educational focus areas include new designs to advance learning, pathways to postsecondary success, leadership and teaching to advance learning, public understanding, and integration, learning, and innovation. Global Fund For Children. Areas served: US, India, South Africa.

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UNICEF Shares How You Can Support India Today Amidst the COVID-19 Surge

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Richard Beighton, Chief of Resource Mobilization and Partnerships, UNICEF India. India has become the first country to report more than 400,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day. Although over 160 million shots have been given, almost 32 million of these were second vaccines, meaning that only 10% of India’s 1.3

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Social Media and the Bottom of the Pyramid

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I shared the story of how Pratham Books used Twitter to help get children's books to children in rural India. I also shared a brief case study of Red Cross over the past five years of integrating social media. Tags: india. Reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The recent Indian copyright amendment that creates an exception similar to Section 121 in the United States, which makes it possible for us to set up a Bookshare-style crowd-sourced library in India with local partner NGOs. Digital signatures for parents/guardians wanting to sign up their children with disabilities for Bookshare.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families.

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