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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

During the pandemic, these local education leaders have been critical in identifying and launching initiatives that not only assist girls in continuing their education during school closures, but also help them get back in the classroom when schools reopen. Malala Fund is partnering with ACE Charity in Nigeria to provide children.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

Get Fully Funded

Use a real person’s name, typically your Executive Director or the person in charge of acknowledging gifts. You answered our call for donations so students could move off our waiting list and into classrooms. In Haiti, a typical adult has just five years of schooling, and the literacy rate is just 53 percent.

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Make Your Nonprofit Board Meetings Magical

BoardAssist

Ideas include financial literacy training, fundraising discussions, or a presentation about a political or economic issue that affects your organization. Since 2002, Bob has been executive director of the Jovid Foundation in Washington, DC. These are among the most substantive elements of any good board agenda: Board development.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

Assistant director John Klima explained: "We get a ton of usage on our public PCs, and the RCI program is going to help us continue to provide this valuable service to our community." Executive director Julie Lyles Carr says: "Anything that helps get the message out through technology is so important."

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Attendees include approximately 200 Directors and senior staff from Service and Conservation Corps across the country; officials from federal agencies; representatives from philanthropic foundations; and friends and supporters of the Corps movement. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. The Great Ideas Conference. Mar 17 - 19.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

Tech Soup

Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum. Nairobi, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Women and Web Literacy Program 2016 – 17. Nairobi, Kenya: Mobile Solar Computer Classroom Project in Kenya. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Wednesday, November 30, 2016. Friday, December 2, 2016.