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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. 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. 10X: ten times the impact. But what about everybody else?

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

Get Fully Funded

In the donor’s mind, they can’t close the loop on the gift until they receive a receipt. 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. And your gift made it happen.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

This is not new, but it was on the minds of our volunteer managers, and in a big way. This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them. Here’s what they had to say.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

The Kosch-Westerman Foundation connects terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. New Heights Educational Group is an educational support and literacy center for families with children who are struggling in school. " Inward Bound Mindfulness Education. Image 9: Inward Bound Mindfulness Education.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Social Capital 2019 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. 2019 Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference.

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Solutionary Women: Viet-Ly Nguyen

Have Fun - Do Good

Here is a partial transcript from my interview with Viet-Ly: Viet-Ly: Streetside Stories is a nonprofit literacy arts program based in San Francisco and we work with the middle schools -- the public middle schools -- of the San Francisco Unified School District. So, I decided that I want to be a classroom teacher, and I've applied to school.