Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

It often surprises people when I mention that education accounts for fully one-fifth of nonprofit activity , second only to human services. PowerMyLearning is a new, free online resource that has educational games, videos, and other activities for elementary, middle-school, and high school-aged students. Computers for Youth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. At the Sujaya School, I visited a second grade art class. I also visited the sixth grade class. www.enteef.com. How deep is the Pacific Ocean?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The weekend of September 17 th -18 th , the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Student Association (NLASA) held its annual retreat at R-C Scout Ranch in in Payson, AZ. 32 students attended to discuss and identify goals for the upcoming year, build community, and eat s’mores around the bonfire!

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. Send them home with students so parents are aware of the fundraiser and can provide support. Thank your donors and readers.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

If you loved our 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2019 calendar! We've searched far and wide for the best and brightest nonprofit conferences from all around the country! Nonprofit Management. Nonprofit Technology, and more! Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar 2019.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2016

Meet the folks who are here to help you and your nonprofit succeed! The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA) is a student association for undergraduates interested in nonprofit careers. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA) is a student association for undergraduates interested in nonprofit careers.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. ClassTalk was made through Code for America , a nonprofit that connects app developers with civic leaders to solve city problems.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Epic Change is a US nonprofit dedicated to helping social entrepreneurs harness the power of their stories to create change in their communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Epic Change is a US nonprofit dedicated to helping social entrepreneurs harness the power of their stories to create change in their communities.

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Interview Tanzania Change Africa 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

The Ordyslexie program, in combination with Les Ateliers du Bocage, has helped more than 1,500 dyslexic French students become more independent and confident in school. This program has improved academic performance and is loved by both students and parents. The copies are submitted on a USB flash drive or directly."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We like to think that most nonprofits are concerned about their reach toward individuals who might struggle to connect with their offerings, at least in the best of times. To be sure, the pandemic has thrown a wrench into ways that nonprofits have engaged their stakeholders over the past couple years. But now we are limping along.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. For example, LINGOs has a free nonprofit learning catalog. However, many of the in-depth classes cost a bundle and take a week or more of your time. 2) Partner in Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. Year in Review. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. Since 2003, the nonprofit has saved more than 6,000 animals, and the project is growing fast. As we grow, QuickBooks for Nonprofits meets our needs." HART for Animals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

The project started by a college student named Shawn whose wants to make the world a better place one small personal action at a time.     He is doing this on his own - and not as a nonprofit organization, fundraiser, or charity.      He says it better in his own words: I??? Dr. Jeffrey Sachs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Streetside Stories is a San Francisco based arts education nonprofit that actually just started a blog , so give them a little link love! I work with a co-facilitator and we visit sixth grade language arts and social studies classes for two-week writing workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many different kinds of nonprofit event ideas out there! The type of events that will work best for your nonprofit will depend on three major factors: Your organization’s mission, your available resources, and your supporter’s preferences. It’s a healthy and engaging way to support your nonprofit’s cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. Year in Review.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing. Britt Bravo: What does a typical class day look like? And some of them had gardened before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. Teams of Harvard Law students enrolled in Evidence will serve as the lawyers.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Nonprofits, schools, churches, and many other organizations were forced to get creative to come up with fundraising ideas during COVID. When the pandemic first started, who could’ve guessed that it would change the way many nonprofits fundraise forever? Virtual cooking class. Virtual talent show.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. The key to getting your nonprofit’s story in the news is building relationships with local journalists.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Her work has appeared in FundraisingRaising Success magazine, CSAE’s Association Agenda , CharityVillage , and the Wild Apricot nonprofit technology blog. That school is amazing – it’s offering students the chance to be immersed in the Mi’maq culture and language for 7 hours a day. social media. Follow her on twitter @soha.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

Kristi Gee describes the program in her post, " Everyone is a teacher and a learner ": We take classes all day Tuesdays and Thursdays. The idea is that students get to put social justice-ee ideas into practice. On the opposite days, we work for a non-profit related to our study. See how theory actually works. Engage in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Guide your students to conversations and resources. I'm nervous. Openness - ????

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Instead, you can say, “Hey, you are helping us to change the lives of kids like Sam, and I know that that’s why you give because you want to see more students have mentorship and change the trajectory of their life. You’re helping to change lives of these students.” Here’s the link for you to give.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

one of my favorite things about our guests is she’s been in her shoes, right, she’s been an ED, she’s been not just a consultant but also has worked for and with nonprofits directly, which is great, over two decades. Every business, whether it be for-profit or nonprofit business, is usually created for purpose.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2015

That organization is Learning to Give , a nonprofit that works, through K-12 teachers, to “spark students to learn and act for good” by providing more than 1,700 lesson plans designed to both inspire and equip students to use their hearts and minds to impact the world. Stated learning objectives. A bibliography.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

A couple years ago I was working at a nonprofit, and I made a call to a small grassroots organizing group in Arkansas. We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2021

While monetary donations are helpful for keeping nonprofits going, donation drives are great for helping nonprofits meet specific needs, especially during times when supply shortages are common. Students and teachers excel in classrooms that have all the resources they need to keep learning and teaching.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I could practically teaching this class. ” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. We then gave them access to referrals and you know what, 90% of the students did not follow up on the referrals. They had to deal with their own students and their own curriculum. Move aside, Julie.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

After advising the students of trying as much as possible to remain in school, he explained his reasoning: “Because education is the most powerful weapon which we can use in order to prepare our youth for their role as leaders of tomorrow.”.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Amy Costello: Welcome to Tiny Spark , a podcast of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Costello: So, in his new book, Reich is joining with some other adults and, like any good parents, they’re trying to steer the aspiring techies in their classroom toward a healthier and wiser destination. I’m Amy Costello. And I said, “Really?

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