Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year. This August they will co-teach a workshop on memoir, “The World Outside-The World Within, Living and Writing Your Story," at the Leaven Center in Lyons, MI. Hopelark is hoping to join the program as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Each funder gave an overview gave an overview of their program. Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

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. That really baffled me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts is a school gardening program that serves low-income youth from San Fransico's underserved neighborhoods. Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? And that includes the extended effect on the programs delivered.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Vendors showcase handmade crafts, jewelry, and artwork, and a percentage of sales goes to the nonprofit hosting the fair, supporting its cultural programs. In this image, a group of adults sit in a classroom watching a teacher’s presentation. Storytelling Night There are two ways to put on a storytelling night.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program. A TEALS teaching assistant for a classroom in rural Kentucky noticed the transformation of a young man involved in the program.

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