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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. It is good to give the group time to flesh out its most pressing issues—ideally, before those issues become too urgent. Decision points.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

Step 2: Write a pitch or a press release. If you want to pitch your story to several news outlets, you need to draft a press release, which you can later adapt for your website’s blog, your email marketing communications, and your social channels. 5K will raise money for school’s outdoor classroom and track . Step 4: Follow up

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects. It starts in the home.

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COVID-19 contributed to major education funding gap, report finds

Candid

According to Theirworld, if the annual funding gap is not met—and there are no plans or proposals to address the gap currently—more than half the world’s children are at risk of failing to attain basic literacy skills by 2030. According to Theirworld, the coronavirus pandemic at its peak forced more than 1.6

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52 Nonprofit Event Ideas That People Will Love

Neon CRM

In this image, a group of adults sit in a classroom watching a teacher’s presentation. Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Betsy, a former teacher with a Master's in Education and Learning Disabilities, has a keen understanding of what educators need to adopt Bookshare.org and other technology in the classroom. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding.

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Finding the Great Impact Story

Tech Soup

And I mean really ask, not by mass email or Twitter, but with a phone pressed to your ear, leaning over a table at a coffee shop, hanging on every word – the kind of ask that demonstrates you are listening because the other person is fascinating. I learned a few things from this experience.

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