Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful Funds raised will go to support the work of Mama Lucy Kampton ( @MamaLucy ), a ChangeMaker who has transformed her community in Arusha, Tanzania through her school Shepherd’s Junior. Last year, funds from TweetsGiving helped build a classroom in Tanzania.

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Tanzania Change Africa Classroom 129

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Hispanic Heritage Foundation is an award-winning nonprofit that identifies, inspires, prepares and positions Latino leaders in the classroom, community and workforce to meet America’s priorities. Read our full profile of the Latino Victory Project and how they use technology to run winning campaigns here. Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

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Organization United States National America 89

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. Where do the funds go? The internet has opened up the world for these students and their teachers are increasingly using the web in their curriculum.

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Interview Tanzania Change Africa 108

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. Where do the funds go? The internet has opened up the world for these students and their teachers are increasingly using the web in their curriculum.

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Interview Tanzania Change Africa 108

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Jay Bowman is a deacon in his church and leads a small volunteer tech support team called their technology ministry. Charity Technology in the Heartland. Jay said that they support 30 PC in offices, classroom, and a school computer lab. ” The school is funded by student tuitions and church member donations.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. School and Job Preparedness. iStudiez Pro. Additional Resources.

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Teen Netsquared Student Library 65

NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology. Share your technology experiences and frustrations. Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. Students are among the most technology savvy people I know. What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration?

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Collaboration New Hampshire Classroom NGO 75

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

JANUARY 4, 2017

I teach a seminar course on integrated social media strategy for international nonprofits and a session for students to learn how they leverage their professional networks for career and learning in a flexible classroom space. When I look back on 2016, it was a very rich and productive year. And, I expect no less in 2017.

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Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Now that you have that background, we’re moving on to part 2, which answers: Can mobile giving technology be used for more than just fundraising? Can mobile giving technology be used for more than just fundraising? Fund specific projects. Many nonprofits choose to use mobile fundraising to fund specific projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2013

UC Santa Cruz students who participated in our volunteer pilot project— proofreading textbooks for our Bookshare collection—have done a fantastic job proofreading over a short period of time three entire textbooks! This means more than 2,300 pages of text and an amazing gift for the 250,000+ Bookshare student members we serve.

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Student Volunteer Impact Classroom 191

sgEngage

AUGUST 30, 2023

While net tuition revenue makes up the majority of a private or independent school’s revenue—typically 70 to 80%—most don’t charge what it actually costs to educate a student. This includes recruiting more middle- and lower-income students who require financial aid, which increases fundraising dependency.

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Team Denver Classroom Student 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

One of my main projects this past year, and continuing into 2015 was to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps.

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Instructional Design Facilitation San Antonio North Carolina 50

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's August, school's back in session, and besides traffic being a pain in the you-know-where again, children are back in the classroom with their thinking caps on. Jump Rope For Heart and Hoops For Heart are two service learning projects that educate and create awareness among teachers, parents and students ages 7-14.

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Blackboard Wikipedia Convio Classroom 29

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. She funded her first pilot with her allowance!

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Social Nigeria Student Cancer 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

In addition to the Emerging Leaders Peer Learning project, I continued to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. I produced four “ Advanced Practices Webinars ” for the Knight Foundation for Giving Days hosts.

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Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education.

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eBook Accessibility United States Student 203

Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Operating in over 50 regions across the country, TFA finds, develops, and supports a diverse network of leaders who expand opportunity for children across classrooms, schools, and any sector or field that shapes the broader systems in which schools operate. Changing the Technology Strategy. Francis College + Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

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Teach America Education Marketing 116

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Guest blogger Soha El-Borno is a freelance writer specializing in non-profit technology and web 2.0/social Her work has appeared in FundraisingRaising Success magazine, CSAE’s Association Agenda , CharityVillage , and the Wild Apricot nonprofit technology blog. social media. She can be reached at soha_elborno@yahoo.ca.

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Music Interview Create Change 42

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process.

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Netsquared Nptech Summary Project 50

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. This event was very exciting, as we have never previously received federal funding for Bookshare.org. We're sure we can do this because our technology allows us to cost-effectively and rapidly scale Bookshare.org.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And funding opportunities, I’ve experienced, start to kind of just roll in. ” 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 want to invest more time, more resources.

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Community Video Slides Survey 81

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The Department of State should develop a Young Diplomats Program which would provide students with the opportunity to advance their understanding of the core topics and issues relevant to the foreign service. The program would run for the entire academic school year and rely on long-term engagement with students. Vote for this Idea].

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Ideas Share Disaster Government 47

Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

We had also learned that direct funding to police organizations for reform had limited impact. We created a central funding mechanism within the Ford Foundation to support projects by field offices and their grantee partners that brought together activists, researchers, and reform-minded elements of the police. Closing thoughts.

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Philanthropy Brazil Law History 75

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Contrasting that rich human narrative with the kind of gleamy tweaky technology narrative that was emerging from the NISE-NET meeting made me realize that generally speaking, science museums ignore many of the aspects of life that are the most resonant--mortality, sex, humor, tragedy, pity, joy. Not that it was sad, but that it was human.

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