NTEN

JULY 22, 2021

Last year, as jobs, schools, government services, social gatherings, and everyday tasks moved online, there blossomed a growing recognition that digital access and skills are critical in our society and should be a universal human right.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2024

Example: “To raise critical funds through a community gala to support our after-school literacy program for underprivileged children.” This succinctly expresses the purpose of your event and aligns with your organization’s overall mission. These goals should be both financial (e.g., increasing donor base by 20%).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising campaigns. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. September.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising campaigns. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. September.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Launching online fundraising campaigns around cause awareness days is good strategy. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #IntLiteracyDay or #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. September.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. And today, braille is not being taught to most blind children.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2017

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to craft and launch online fundraising campaigns. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. September.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Launching online communications and fundraising campaigns around annual social good and cause campaign events is good strategy. 12: International Day for Street Children. 8: International Literacy Day || #IntLiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day || #ChildrensDay. 14: International Day of Action for Rivers.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Reading Eggs is an online reading education program for children aged 3 to 13. Reading Eggs is ideal for organizations that work with literacy among children and want to motivate them through games. TechSoup is proud to announce Reading Eggs, our newest donor partner. Is It Right for My Organization? How Does It Work?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

The presenters, Austin Stroud of the Monroe County Public Library and Crystal Schimpf of TechSoup for Libraries, shared resources for teaching online safety and security. I curated some of the best resources shared by Austin, webinar attendees, and from our own TechSoup collection of online safety resources. Assessments/Quizzes.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

That donor experience is all about having a strong online campaign page that encourages your supporters to set up a fundraising page quickly and easily. Host a tutorial about the campaign page for your team to prepare them to answer questions about giving online. Need inspiration? Check out what other libraries have done.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Remote learning for refugee children in Lebanon: Malala Fund Education Champion Nayla Fahed created Tabshoura, an award-winning e-learning platform that helps Syrian refugees and girls in vulnerable communities in Lebanon learn for free. The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. A few months ago, I attended Microsoft Citizenship's YouthSpark Connection event and heard first-hand from recent high school graduates about how dire the need for digital literacy is.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

In a country that generally prides itself on offering the opportunity for everyone to succeed, one in four children grow up without learning to read. Pamela began by homeschooling her own children, and then transitioning into a leadership role in the charter schools of northern Ohio. " Equal Access Through Online Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I first became interested in the topic after reading David Shenk’s “ Data Smog ” in 1998 using the metaphor of environmental problems to talk about the dangers of having too much online information, primarily email. His methods make use of some of the online software that helps you keep track of time.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 5, 2008

The article makes this sound like a new idea, but The Hunger Site (and their later projects for breast cancer, children’s health, literacy, rain forest protection, and animal rescue) has been doing this since 1999. Tags: Online Fundraising. I hope they’ll prove me wrong.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful for online fundraising. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 3: World Wildlife Day — #WorldWildlifeDay. September.

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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. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Neon CRM

MAY 3, 2023

For example, if someone gave $50 to a literacy group, the email could say, “Your donation of $50 helped us give 100 books to 50 children.” You can also invite your recurring donors to provide feedback or to participate in online discussions about the content to bring them into the community.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Comments : The link goes directly to the @SpectrumVT online donation form with zero copy on why someone ought to donate. Please donate today to raise literacy of deaf children! link] #nonprofit #literacy #deaf. Tweet : Can you help us reach our $1500 holiday gift goal??! Contact llatka@spectrumvt.org. Want to make a gift?

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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 concept of] family literacy is also very important in our community. In part 2, we offer a librarian's perspective as the host for this program. Check it out

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

This new program is rolling out this month in 39 states offering $10 per month broadband Internet program to low-income families with children who are eligible to receive free school meals. Subscribers will also be given access to free digital literacy training. One of the big pieces of digital divide news in the U.S.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2012

Let’s assume you plan to start an educational program to help children with literacy. I assume you’ll use your website to market the program, so you should include a percentage of your web hosting costs and any staff or consulting expenses you might incur to update the information online.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 29, 2008

The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Beth is on the Board of the Foundation, and she and her husband have two children, Harry and Sara, who were adopted as orphans from Cambodia.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Members of the Online Community and Social Media team also captured impressions of the day, keeping a running stream of photos and videos on Facebook and Twitter in real time. Although the community couldn't visit their usual haunts on techsoup.org, they could still keep up with TechSoup online. TechSoup Sweat Equity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Although the members of our board were impressed with all three nominees, they awarded Carrie Karnos of Palo Alto, CA, the 2006 Veale Award for her work with an accessible online library called Bookshare. She truly is one of the great, quiet humanitarians who carry on Matilda Ziegler's legacy of literacy for those of us who are blind."

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. YCAB is the abbreviation for the organization’s full name in the Indonesian language, Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa, which translates to "loving the nation’s children foundation." It is densely populated with 92 million people.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Reading challenge Issue a community-wide reading challenge this spring to encourage literacy in your community. You can also include activities for the children of the community. 49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More. Encourage participants to take advantage of your local public library and get reading!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A number of nonprofit organizations are promoting Valentine's Day giving opportunities, here's a few: A Day for Hearts is an opportunity to raise awareness about congenital heart defects, a lethal constellation of birth defects of the heart that affect millions of newborn infants and children worldwide.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2015

One of the most effective ways to gain exposure for a nonprofit is by appearing at the top of online search results. A search engine doesn't know that "high-quality, evidence-based early childhood literacy interventions" are the same thing as "helping children learn to read." spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Children love it. The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children. Privacy and Security. Another is surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

A common critic of online giving through social media is that the dollar amounts are too low per donor and donations tend to be transactional, not relationship-based or one-time donors. Get your conversations going online NOW! Find one fundraising event or idea to take online this year. The goal of our Community Philanthropy 2.0

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Over the next three years, Symantec is investing $900,000 in Room to Read , an international nonprofit dedicated to promoting literacy and gender equality in the developing world. Their support will help Room to Read extend its operations into new parts of India and reach over 20,000 children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

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? He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. It starts in the home.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in three sessions: a Pecha Kucha design blitz, a dialogue on bridging online/onsite connections, and a discussion of the IMLS 21st Century Skills report. Chuck offered a quote from an advisory psychologist who commented that "children should be the brightest thing in the space." Worth, Texas. Leary (NRG!

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