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Pride is a Protest, Not a Parade: How Education Can Help Fight Hate Against the LGBTQ+ Community

Saleforce Nonprofit

Every June, the LGBTQ+ community and allies come together to celebrate love and friendship, to show how far the equality movement has come, and how much more work there is to do. Progress is never linear with hate crimes and discrimination against the community rising. Whether you are part of the LGBTQ+ community or an ally.

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From Prospective Student to Active Alum—Engagement Fosters Lifelong Support

sgEngage

Faculty engaged her both inside and outside the classroom by providing feedback on assignments, encouraging her to step outside her comfort zone to acquire new skills, recommending extracurricular activities, and checking in on the progress she’s making towards her goals. Does engagement end with a donation? But that isn’t the lesson here.

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Salesforce.org CEO Rob Acker’s Year-End Reflections

Saleforce Nonprofit

And we helped equip educators to better engage with thousands of students when classrooms had to become virtual. But if any community can continuously find ways around, over, and through these hurdles, it’s this one. Salesforce.org focuses on delivering world-class technology to nonprofits and higher education customers.

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MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

Tech Soup

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. As the MathAndCoding founders refined their processes and logistics, Bricker grew more confident in letting them move on to offer more advanced classes.

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How Malala Fund’s Innovative Grantmaking is Revolutionizing Education for Girls

Saleforce Nonprofit

From creating digital learning opportunities and initiatives to protect girls’ mental well-being to securing national funding for education — the Champions we support are driving solutions to girls’ education challenges in their communities. . The game-changing part of Nayla’s platform? It doesn’t require internet access.

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Last-Minute Gift Guide for Social Impact

Amy Sample Ward

This means that products had less transportation costs and are tied to sustaining the community’s economy. Etsy certainly makes it easy to find those crafters that make my homemade soap look like a class experiment! I know I said that I’ve taken my turn a few times with DIY projects, but I’m just a casual crafter.

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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. I was just meeting some of these students, I was just setting the tone for class. We weren’t sure. It didn’t matter!

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