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February Cause Awareness: Black History Month

Qgiv

According to a survey by the University of California at Santa Cruz , the number of working African American business owners fell more than 40% during the pandemic—a much steeper drop than other racial groups. Black-owned businesses often face unique challenges and they’ve also been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.

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Changing lives through financial empowerment

ASU Lodestar Center

It has been amazing to see the impact financial literacy can have on a person, and just how crucial financial literacy is on the future of our young people. One of the first classes I organized at the YW was for a group of young teenage mothers. integrate financial literacy into our school systems, or at least make.

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Forum One Wins 11 Communicator Awards

Forum One

This tool provides data on schools across the country – School Districts, Colleges and Universities, Legal Units (i.e. .” We partnered with the Urban Institute’s Center on Education and Policy to reinvision their Education Data Explorer. KIP charter schools) – tied to geographies (city, town, county, census tract).

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Content is available in Arabic, French, and English, and it adheres to Lebanese school curriculum to ensure students don’t get behind when in-person classes resume. The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM. It doesn’t require internet access. Sarah Albright, Development Associate.

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Lucy Bernholz Named Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a Visiting Scholar, Bernholz will advance the Foundation’s literacy on a range of issues, particularly digital civil society, open data, and social good. Since then, she has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society where she co-leads the Digital Civil Society Lab.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Universal City Studios, Inc., The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. This ruling by the Supreme Court in Sony Corp.

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Resources to Sharpen Your Technology Training Skills

Tech Soup

Replicate the Denver Public Library's excellent technology classes at your own library! Every class listed has handouts and a lesson plan associated with it. Digital Literacy Resources. GCFLearnFree.org is a great resource for training others in computer literacy as well as personal skills development.

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