Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Byte Back is a nonprofit computer skills and career training center located in Washington, D.C. Glenn taught himself the skills needed to maintain and repair computers. In the mid-1990s, Glenn met with his friend Barbara Altman to share his idea of opening a computer and career training center in Honduras.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Cooking or baking class. Reach out to the chef of a popular local restaurant or send a call out to any supporters who are baking aficionados to host a virtual cooking or baking class as a fundraiser. Incentivize your students to read more with a fun peer-to-peer read-a-thon. Student art show. Virtual event fundraising.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

About Black History Month Black History Month began when Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Their programs are aimed at increasing digital literacy and helping people gain valuable tech skills to funnel into successful careers. Keep reading to learn more about Black History Month and how you can get involved!

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 13, 2013

.” Upon graduating with dual certifications, and one of the highest grades in the class, William secured an entry-level help desk support position with IPR International. Our students are unemployed or underemployed. 160 ensures one student can complete the A+ certification. 1,000 provides a paid internship for a student.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

That’s one of the best things about volunteering; there are a variety of ways for individuals to make an impact according to their interests and skills. Let’s take a look at some of the different volunteer types to give you a better understanding of where volunteers come from and what types of skills they bring to the table.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

What classes are best? Do you need a lot of training, or just the basics? From accountants to college students, from administrators working in construction offices to legal professionals, many are considering new career directions to gain more meaningful work and to serve the greater good in their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. Design for Participants To Apply.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 24, 2021

For Students , adapted from Brian Tracy ’s time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog , which has sold more than 2.4 This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. A student’s life is completely different.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

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. Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. We weren’t sure.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, training is esse ntial to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Whether your organization is training its own staff in nonprofit management, or teaching others technical skills, TechSoup can help you get started. Train on Over 150 Products with Atomic Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 19, 2006

Got an email today advertising a free one-week training for student activists put on by Greenpeace and Seventh Generation called Change It 2006. If you know any young people who might benefit from this program, tell them to get on it, the deadline is April 30th. greenpeace seventh generation youth activism

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 26, 2011

The universities I visit tend to be full of students and faculty committed to doing important and innovative work. It was a class at Caltech that prompted me to first think of making reading machines for blind people, my personal jumping off point that led me to found Benetech (hmm, name similarity probably not a coincidence!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. I got an opportunity to do a workshop with second year students during their IT class.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Technology is playing an ever larger role in increasing respect for human rights and delivering better services, and we have two rare opportunities to lead world-class tech-for-good programs. Along the way, we expect to drive innovations that will make learning better for all students around the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

One of the first classes I organized at the YW was for a group of young teenage mothers. Throughout the class, we covered topics like budgeting, the differences between debit and credits cards, and finding money to save. Most people never receive any formal financial training. credit card or budget their money.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 2, 2022

In this article, I’m going to break down my guide to writing a great fundraising appeal even if you doubt your writing skills. Step 4: Edit, Edit, Edit I tell my students in The Storytelling Non-Profit Master Class all the time that the magic of copywriting and of storytelling happens in the editing.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Defining Digital Literacy.

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Gyrus

JUNE 16, 2016

When I was a child, I had difficulty with a math class, and an obsession with baseball cards; my father, saw this as an opportunity. Badging is an online representation of an earned skill, allowing you to share your skills and interests with the world in a visual manner. Leaderboards. Leaderboards are my personal favorite.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 7, 2019

posted by Channtal Polanco Class 13 Public Ally. Public Allies Arizona ’s 13th class will graduate in June, the completion of a 10-month AmeriCorps program that places emerging young leaders at local nonprofits for full-time paid apprenticeships. Channtal Polanco is part of Public Allies' Class 13.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. Most of work projects are capacity building and training other trainers. Year in Review.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

How much tech skill is required? Most people you work with, from students to volunteers to Board members, will already know how to use them. Online training courses abound, and your bookkeeper or board treasurer will likely be familiar with Quickbooks. It can also give you a false sense of your own design skills.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2016

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA) is a student association for undergraduates interested in nonprofit careers. They recognized the need for highly skilled leaders in the nonprofit sector. They recognized the need for highly skilled leaders in the nonprofit sector. What events do you have planned this year?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. 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.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley. Students bring their own laptops to a public library, and receive instruction from high school-aged instructors. In fact, Woo confides that she had to drop out of her programming class in school.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Purchasing Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design through TechSoup made it possible to offer training in Photoshop and Premier Pro. The teens have new skills which can help them in work and education. It is now more of a community center that offers training and facilitates events. They are seeking grants to create more training space.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Students develop and run a business, gain confidence, academic support, and mentorship. Beyond 12 is developing the next generation of MyCoach, a mobile app that helps low-income students navigate the path to college and stay on track once they arrive, significantly enhancing graduation rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The money is in sponsorship from companies that want to be favorably exposed in one fell swoop to a critical mass of the best and brightest of the young technoid class. They commit to each other individually as well as recruit from their individual networks to train and support their nonprofit partners in the year to come and beyond.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

The school has about 300 students who attend classes in a one-room building that ordinarily accommodates 30 children. The remaining students must hold classes outside underneath trees, if weather permits. ATCAC provides training in work skills, social skills, and health education taught by professionals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. The school has almost a dozen different social enterprises that provide access to these job skills.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

[2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. Responses from NMI students and alumni reveal that 94% say NMI courses are relevant to their daily work.

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

Cooking classes. Your foodie supporters will love the opportunity to learn some new skills in the kitchen and add new recipes to their repertoire under the watchful eye of expert culinary teachers. For your next school fundraiser , raffle off the opportunity to grab a sweet treat with your students’ favorite teachers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking with My PC program manager Todd Watts on the TechSoup webinar, Free Windows 7 Curriculum: Basic Computer Training at Your Library or Nonprofit. You could start off by downloading the curriculum on the My PC Program page , or you could take a look at the class handouts on the My PC Student page.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Feb 21 - 24.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

And one in five, or 23 percent of the adult American population , is functionally illiterate or lacks basic skills past a fourth-grade reading level. " In this spirit, New Heights provides everything from tutoring services to curriculums, a library with more than 3,000 books, field trips, and online classes. spanhidden.

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