Charity Village

JULY 29, 2021

As we know, love is not a frequently used term in our workplaces and classrooms. It is, maybe, even more tentatively used in relation to service. In this series, we have begun to illuminate the relevance of exploring the energy of love as an integral element of serving each other in our world ~ especially […].

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. Learn-It-All leaders are constantly creating and re-creating themselves, their companies, and their leadership. They are information extractors.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 30, 2023

One successful strategy is to create buckets in the annual fund that give donors options, with categories such as: Area of Greatest Need (General) Scholarships & Financial Aid Campus & Classroom Faculty & Staff Development Athletics Arts Agility breeds success , and it’s important to create those buckets with flexibility in mind.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Unlike traditional classroom learning, LMS is specialized software designed to develop, deliver, and track employee, client, and partner training.

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Donorbox

JUNE 23, 2022

Using her knowledge of children, she designed a classroom and education that allowed children to work at their own pace and teach themselves. Maria Montessori was an Italian doctor and educator. She opened her first school in 1907 in a poor district of Rome. Many schools or organizations follow her original principles and work to […].

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Candid

MARCH 23, 2022

In a classroom, everyone knows who walks through the door—but sometimes in Zoom, that’s not clear. Despite their intention, the breakout doesn’t necessarily simulate the classroom experience—sometimes, when there’s no clear purpose, it feels more like being in a stuck elevator. . . Welcome everyone. Break it up—or don’t!

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2022

DonorsChoose is a cool platform for classrooms where teachers post a project and people commit to giving. When a project reaches its funding goal, the company purchases all related classroom materials and ships the items to the school. Non-profits can create and customize branded donation and event registration pages.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 21, 2012

If you're training a lot of people, try to train in a classroom setting so everyone hears the same thing. But recognize that not everyone will be available for classroom trainings, and some people will need 1 on 1 training to understand the concepts. Test the computers and software in the classroom before every training.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Walden Woods Project uses Skype to reach classrooms. Teachers are connecting speakers from across the globe to their classrooms, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees shared the idea of connecting aid workers with students to share experiences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Gifts range from symbolic adopt-an-acre of a national park gifts to funding a classroom project in a low-income community. As a follow-up to 25 Online Gift Stores That Benefit Nonprofit s , below are 10 holiday gift programs that benefit nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I was able to pull this off because my course took place in the Digital Learning Commons “ D-Space ” – a state of the art flexible classroom space. The flexible classroom is a large open space. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

When researchers and education professionals started looking at technology as a means of innovation in the classroom, many thought that the future of technology’s role in education was in the use of devices. Without education, there is no future, and, unequivocally, technology is intertwined with the future of education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 1, 2013

6 Tips for Successful Mobile Video Assignments in the Classroom - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education : However, in the three years I’ve been teaching mobile video in a course titled “Information 3.0,” even those students who initially say they are very familiar with video later admit that they learned a lot from repeated practice and application (..)

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2022

They primarily fulfill this mission through college scholarship programs for students and grants for classroom teachers. Union County Education Foundation is a nonprofit that’s laser focused on “supporting students and encouraging educators” in Union County Public Schools. They work hard to: .

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Qgiv

JULY 25, 2022

For schools and classrooms, DonorsChoose is the best crowdfunding option. Teachers can start fundraising campaigns on the DonorsChoose platform to raise money for any classroom project that needs extra support. Donors can go to the website and find a specific school and a specific classroom project to support. DonorsChoose.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The challenge runs throughout October, with hundreds of bloggers and Twitterers rallying to support classroom requests on DonorsChoose.org. All told, they raised over $275,000 for classroom projects reaching 67,000 students in low-income neighborhoods around the country.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills.

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Tech Soup Blog

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. In part 2, we offer a librarian's perspective as the host for this program.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 8, 2022

From tissue boxes and hand sanitizer to markers and notebook paper, every classroom needs resources to support their students and that’s where you can help. Once the school year begins, many schools and teachers have supply lists they need help to fill. Teach for America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

These employees are “tell-me” learners, who thrive in classroom settings. These learners easily understand training manuals, graphs, handouts, diagrams, and visual aids. They do well in independent environments where they set their own pace. Auditory learners learn by listening. Lectures and class discussions are effective training tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. Meantime, if you’re not familiar with DonorsChoose, the idea is a simple one: It’s a site where public school teachers could post what materials they were lacking in the classroom. The cool part?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

Create Digital Classrooms – Education programs—schools, after-school programs, and youth-focused nonprofit—can work with established collections in the classroom; and students can document the area around their school to create their own collections, and potentially trade collections with other schools.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Pierre, the Client Success Manager at Greater Giving, Matt Gibson, the Premier Accounts Manager, and John Chase, Senior Manager of Client Success discussed strategies for success in this educational webinar for anyone heading back to the classroom this fall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms. In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As part of the World Wildlife Fund’s #PromiseToThePlanet, which helps classroom teachers introduce the topic of climate change, the project invited students to make a leaf from paper, fabric, or another material, and write their promise to be kinder and more gentle to the planet on it.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. Top 10 Ways to Help Your Child Readjust to Classroom Learning. What to Do if You’re Being Bullied. 10 Ways to Keep Black People and Their Allies Out of Jail. Tips for Safely Bringing Home a Rescue Dog. How to Protect Your Pets in a Natural Disaster. Arts and culture.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

While some children are taught about giving to charity at home, we are seeing more and more philanthropy curriculum being integrated into the classroom. This isn’t just an isolated case – here’s an example of 10 big time philanthropists who are kids, including a 13 year old who raised $600,000 for charity. The Giving 2.0

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The idea for Veterans Heritage Project began in teacher Barbara Hatch’s classroom in 1998 when she was inspired to invite veterans to share their stories with her students. From that humble beginning, the program evolved into an after-school club and eventually became a nonprofit organization in 2009.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 29, 2021

And we helped equip educators to better engage with thousands of students when classrooms had to become virtual. We partnered with organizations like UNICEF in their critical work to prevent depression and anxiety in children. It has been a year of challenge and change.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Without proper investment in education, more than 20 million children are at risk of never returning to the classroom. According to Theirworld, the coronavirus pandemic at its peak forced more than 1.6 Even before COVID-19, two hundred and sixty million children were not in school,” said Theirworld president Justin van Fleet.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The apprenticeship program will apply the critical knowledge our students learn in the classroom to real-world experience in the field of cloud computing services to prepare students for high-quality careers. This partnership affirms what we’ve long known about the talent of community college students.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. Sophia and her family were left confused and concerned about her future in the classroom. There were several years where Kevin struggled in school because his vision was blurry and this made reading normal size print grueling.

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