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6 Ways to Keep Corporate Partners Engaged During COVID-19

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Your nonprofit may have previously organized in-person group volunteering events for your corporate partner’s employees, such as meal prep for your emergency shelter residents or reading books to children in your after school program. Together, Little Kids Rock and JBL distributed free headphones to kids in schools across eight cities.

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How to Keep Donors Engaged Using Emerging Technologies

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Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. Founder Adam Braun started the organization with a dream of creating educational infrastructure in the communities that need it most and a deposit of just $25.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

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Apple calls this program “one to one” learning, meaning not one instructor but one computer per child. I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

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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? Learning is happening outside of school and it needs to be understood better.

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Can Dr. Seuss Help Your School Drive Admissions?

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Your conflict is the decision families are faced with when looking for a new school for their children. Your resolution is the experience and learning environment you can provide students and their families. Perhaps your audience is looking for smaller class sizes or specialized learning.

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Where I'm Coming From

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Unschooling" is an an educational theory that argues that people of all ages (including children) learn best when their work is self-directed--and that children are better at determining what and how they should learn than any accredited school or instructor. As John Holt wrote, "Learning is not the product of teaching.

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