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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

Similar to the funders in my previous post on education , the organizations listed below focus their efforts on activities inside and outside of the classroom. Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Lisa Libraries.

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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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MCON13: Working with Millennials

NTEN

Nicole related the experience and observations she had about millennials from five-day leadership trainings at Deloitte. Trainings need to be tailored to the learner not meet individual needs. In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management.

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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. These are among the most substantive elements of any good board agenda: Board development.

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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. Veterans Organic Garden is a visionary job training and rehabilitation program for disabled veterans developed by Lovay Wallace-Singleton. " The Kosch-Westerman Foundation. " New Heights Educational Group.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Looking at how to be less of training but more on learning.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. Britt Bravo: What does a typical class day look like? And some of them had gardened before.