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Exploring the Role of Apprenticeship in Today’s Economy with Tal Frankfurt + Robert Lerman

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RL: There are several disconnects in the current system. So, even if a student is attending a lower-priced college, such as a community college, all that time being put in could have been used towards earning money, so that comes at a cost to the learner. First, many people start college but don’t finish.

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Creating Positive Change through Music: Interview with Christina Murray

Have Fun - Do Good

Through its Education and Community Outreach programs, the Symphony helps bring music into the lives of over 14,000 school children each year - students who may not otherwise have access to a symphony. That school is amazing – it’s offering students the chance to be immersed in the Mi’maq culture and language for 7 hours a day.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. You know, with the Better Impact system, you fill out a profile on our website as a link, and then you move through the system. The Big Theme and Conclusion.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Gateway to the Arts: A Web Design Story

Tech Soup

Gateway to the Arts is a Pittsburgh-based organization that exposes young people to the arts through performances, classroom visits by professional artists, and integration of arts into school curriculum, all with a staff of six. “They specifically asked us to introduce them to members of our audience they could interview.”

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Solutionary Women: Viet-Ly Nguyen

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This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter. Our writing workshops focus on autobiographical writing and storytelling, and we actually do a lot of storytelling performance and theater with the students.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. For more on the topic, read this interview from the Six Degrees of Seperation. New (To Me) Blogs Living on $2 Day @ UMW students will live on $2 a day if you donate money to Kiva to support a loan to Gurbat in Azerbaijan.