Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 5: International Volunteer Day — #VolunteerDay. 3: World Wildlife Day — #WorldWildlifeDay. 30: Earth Hour — #EarthHour.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 5: International Volunteer Day — #VolunteerDay. September.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 3, 2014

She would bring books especially for children and women, and conduct a couple of days of workshops on wide-ranging topics about enterprise, culture, history, poetry and books. I know that she would benefit from more help: she''s asked me if I know how she could get more volunteers to assist her with her work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 5: International Volunteer Day — #VolunteerDay. 3: World Wildlife Day — #WorldWildlifeDay. September.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2017

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 5: International Volunteer Day — #VolunteerDay. 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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Qgiv

AUGUST 8, 2022

This schedule was created with the intention of allowing children in farming families to be home to help out during the planting and harvesting seasons in our primarily agricultural society. Volunteer at your local school. Since the 1960s, National Back to School Month has been observed during the month of August. Junior Achievement.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

Develop a standard Library Giving Day pitch and train your staff and volunteers to share it. Encourage staff, volunteers, and supporters to create buzz about the event. Connect the dots and remind supporters that libraries promote literacy by offering free access to literature for all community members.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Ever helpful, the team got on board to roll up their sleeves and pitch in at San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits that had big volunteer jobs. In the process, TechSoup learned just how much work goes into volunteer coordination (a lot!), They made good use of us as volunteers, in a rather spontaneous way. Recruiting in Reverse.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

In one common scenario, a parent gets their children involved in an organization and that child continues their support into the next generation. She has both donated to your annual fund and volunteered for events like galas and dinners. To see how this works in action, we can use a common scenario as an example.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

You can recruit volunteers from your community to bring in different homemade goods and sell them. Schedule groups of volunteers at different times to wash cars for a fixed donation amount and make sure signage pointing to the car wash is clearly visible from the road. Trash cleanup Spring cleaning shouldn’t be limited to homes!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 5: International Volunteer Day — #VolunteerDay. September.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Within the Family Resource Center parenting workshops, early literacy programs, Giggles, Squiggles and Squirms (G.S.S,) child watch, and community health are offered. In 2017, AZCEND provided Christmas gifts for over 480 children. I set up and coordinated parenting workshops, helped with G.S.S, and assisted with child watch.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. They’ll come to your signature event and maybe even volunteer to clean up afterward. Current volunteers. They’ll share your content. Monthly donors make this work possible! Offer a Challenge.

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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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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

If the donor’s gift was used for food for a pantry, a video of a volunteer filling bags with tomato soup, saltines, and other staples will tell the story without having to find a pantry guest willing to be filmed. While packing the box, the volunteer can tell a story of a recent exchange with a person who received groceries at the pantry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But, I expect that 75% of the job will be about analyzing the legal issues from our programs, especially in our Global Literacy Program, which includes Bookshare, the largest digital library for the blind and dyslexic in the U.S., Digital signatures for parents/guardians wanting to sign up their children with disabilities for Bookshare.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

The Northstar Digital Literacy Project has 33 questions, but only a few touch on safety and security. Learning Resources for Children and Families. also has a section especially for children and families. is a great resource by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. GCF Learn Free. Image: Shutterstock.

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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. MathAndCoding volunteers are now doing this at more than 12 libraries in the region. The concept of] family literacy is also very important in our community.

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BoardAssist

JULY 19, 2017

Maybe he is a public school teacher who develops an after-school literacy program for under-served children in his community. Someone who can gather data on best practices at the fifty other after-school literacy programs in New York? Most nonprofits are started by someone with a dream to make the world a better place.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2012

Human Rights 30% Volunteering 30% Children and Youth 26.7% Education and Literacy 23.3% The issues you're the most passionate about are (you chose your top 3): Arts and Culture 40% Women 36.7% Animals 23.3% Environment 23.3% Community Development 23.3% Economic Justice 23.3% Sustainable Food 23.3% Health and Healing 23.3%

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

And w e would like to spotlight a few in the TechSoup community who have joined us in championing this second annual national day of giving : InvestED has launched a volunteer and donation program specially designed around Giving Tuesday. M any thousands of organizations participat e in # GivingTuesday worldwide. million books per year.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Full-time volunteer and board member Mercedes Pellet told us, "We could not have afforded the Desktop Office Suite for 50 employees — Office 365 is a real blessing. 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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

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. Volunteers look at a photo of a missing person, compare it to a news image, and see if they can find a match.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

It's great when one of our team is honored for their work, and Carrie Karnos has been one of our top Bookshare.org volunteers for years, including being Volunteer of the Year. She wrote, "Carrie Karnos is a Bookshare.org volunteer who has given blind readers access to more than 2,000 books. Carrie just received the James H.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

The program helps Vietnamese nonprofits to build staff capacity, apply for grants, and recruit skilled volunteers. It also matches philanthropists with volunteer opportunities and funding recommendations. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

Those kids are the children of the poorest villagers in Roteang Village. We built a new school building for them - and the school is a literacy program. A volunteer on our board put up this profile over at Changing the Present. I love that photo. I took it during my last trip to Cambodia, almost three years ago.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec offers a generous Matching Gift Program — up to $1,000 per employee per year — and also rewards sustained volunteerism by making a contribution to organizations where employees volunteer their time through their Dollars for Doers Program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Today, the Los Angeles nanny funds a school in her native Malawi -- where half a million children have been orphaned by the disease." Carolyn LeCroy "After serving time in prison, Carolyn LeCroy started The Messages Project to help children stay connected with their incarcerated parents.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

Magic is part of the Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses , a Florida charity that visits more than 35,000 adults and children each year with its team of tiny horses. The organization visits hospitals, hospice programs, and children who have experienced traumatic events.

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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. population. Inspiring Optimism Through Results.

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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. Please do share them in the comments.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

While there, McDonald noticed that many classrooms had only a stack of books to share between hundreds of children. “It By using ICT infrastructure that is already set up in these countries, Library For All partners to ensure that quality, locally relevant reading material is available to help improve literacy and promote education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

It really should say "We" There was lots of help from the Sharing Foundation family - board members, volunteers, and supporters -- especially TSF's founder, Dr. Hendrie , whose relentess attention to campaign made it successful. I know the badge says I've Raised $49537 from 745 Donations!

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In this image, volunteers pick up trash in a forested area. Volunteer Fair Your nonprofit likely has a dedicated corp of volunteers that make your work possible. Hosting a volunteer fair will help build bridges between local nonprofits and potential volunteers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that. She had four children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

The poetry program uses poetry books recommended by ReadBoston , one of the first citywide programs designed to help children learn to read. It unites children, families and the community to help children be successful readers by third grade.

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