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How Malala Fund’s Innovative Grantmaking is Revolutionizing Education for Girls

Saleforce Nonprofit

For many students, these school closures could mean the end of their formal education. During the pandemic, these local education leaders have been critical in identifying and launching initiatives that not only assist girls in continuing their education during school closures, but also help them get back in the classroom when schools reopen.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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An Interview with Silvia Tolisano of Langwitches Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am fascinated by the possibilities of blogging in the foreign language classroom. I have read many blogs from people around the world, experimented with new web 2.0 tools and my outlook on literacy, available information, research, and cross-referencing opinions has changed completely. The tools of Web 2.0

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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. Britt: What are some of the biggest challenges of the work that you do?

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

which was based on Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web 2.0 enhanced cultural and technical literacy, not just an ability to reuse materials, but a willingness to do so. I also recently discovered this post/podcast called " Remixing the Classroom." I remixed it from an earlier prsentation called Associations 2.0

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. MacArthur Foundation.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

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. Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories about how this work has impacted individual students' lives?