Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Windows MultiPoint Server is a fairly new product and was originally intended for use in school classrooms. It's a new operating system that allows multiple users to simultaneously share one computer, with each user running an independent Windows 7–like desktop environment. Here's the official Windows MultiPoint Server website.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

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.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

To help you serve your constituents better, TechSoup offers many products in Spanish including: Office productivity software — great for native Spanish speakers on your staff, in your classrooms, or using your library’s computers. Business analysis programs to help you report on and analyze your organization's data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The profits from the BeadforLife Store go into training and community programs in Uganda and education in North America. PBS and its member stations are America’s largest classroom—the nation’s largest stage for the arts and a trusted window to the world. Amnesty International Shop. promoting human rights. BeadforLife Store.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web Courseworks, a leader in innovative learning management systems and virtual event technology, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Technology for Virtual-Classroom or Conferencing Technology category. About Brandon Hall Group, Inc.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. The tech producer can also help someone who is having a technology challenge without this taking up the whole group’s time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Caminos, when they have a classroom, provides tech training to low-income Latina immigrants--and only for women. We walked into our classrooms to find that all of. from where to continue our computer training and work force development. Staff of this org are friends of mine (and neighbors).any Our server.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Tech Donations: How Much Do You Know? or Cary __; gas or train __ ( funding ) Answer. Classroom-ready UNObooks can replace bulky texts and handouts while the familiar Apple iPad2 and robust Dell Venue 11i Pro are ideally suited to nonprofit professionals. Record training webinars and save them as video files.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. Larger corporations have training departments and a multi-prong syllabus. The GE Crotonville Center is the legendary example An easy "ask" for your local corporations is: can I get a donated seat in your classroom? 2) Partner in Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits. And, I expect no less in 2015.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Our goal is to leverage our extensive and complementary networks of individuals and organizations to provide knowledge, training, and tools to nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs around the world. They also operate research, education, and training programs designed to advance knowledge of philanthropy at every level. About Our Alliance.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Our team presented at multiple sessions at the recent RightsCon Silicon Valley conference , which brought together human rights defenders, security experts, and tech executives. This year, it’s been especially worrisome to see the rising tide of violence against the lesbian and gay communities around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. We don’t have a lot of time and it will come after a long day, so have been thinking of ways to do a train the trainers in an efficient way. Illustration by Beth Kanter. Begin Connections.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

Many of these organizations operate loan programs as well as assessment and training to use the devices. It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. Assistive Tech , the U.S. This nonprofit has been running for over 20 years.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

Schools can extend access beyond classroom walls to students without technology resources at home. Volunteer groups can take advantage of video and other web-based training tools for more cost-effective training and recruitment. Make it easier for a staff member to telecommute or work from a home office.

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

If any of your donors are looking for some extra help at the gym or trying to develop a fitness regimen, raffle off some private training sessions with a personal trainer. The popularity of home tech has grown substantially in recent years. Personal trainer sessions. Home gym equipment. Flatscreen TV. Smart home devices.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Through data, analysis, and training, the Foundation Center helps organizations and individuals research, identify, and connect with potential funding sources. The Foundation Center is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to connect people who want to change the world with the resources they need to do so.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

for many, the jobs crisis has led to a growing number of NEET youth – those Not engaged in education, employment or training – and they can quickly become marginalized, creating even more costs for society. environments, and a lack of technical or vocational training to open new. opportunities. their future and ours.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2011

This one's about Amber Slaven, a librarian who got her start at Bellevue Library with a pretty great gig: driving a Winnebago outfitted as a mobile computer classroom. We've got a new spotlight up at TechSoup for Libraries that nonprofits might learn from, as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

For those of us who have been attending blogging and tech conferences, the backchannel is not new. While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences. It’s like a new set of antennae."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2010

Twenty years ago, I was building computer training labs in homeless shelters with no hardware budget. They were Pat Furr of Computers for Classrooms (CFC) and Bruce Buckelew of Oakland Technology Exchange West (OTX West).

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

With that in mind, we’ll dive into general best practices when it comes to the pre-planning stage, venue management, staff assignments, and any tech considerations. With these questions in mind, your team can optimize the venue, start assigning and training staff members, and come up with a plan to mitigate any future issues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

. :-) I first started doing technology consulting for nonprofit organizations in 1996, with a project for a local public television station ( WGBY in Springfield, MA ), to design a technology center for teachers to learn about technology and the internet, so they could apply that in their classrooms.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Gateway to the Arts is a Pittsburgh-based organization that exposes young people to the arts through performances, classroom visits by professional artists, and integration of arts into school curriculum, all with a staff of six. “They specifically asked us to introduce them to members of our audience they could interview.”

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

It's hard to learn soft skills in a classroom setting because this growth is both personal and situational. Maybe you'd like to handle stressful situations better or resolve conflict easier? Often, soft skills are best learned from a mentor. It requires focus and one-on-one attention.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Microsoft introduced WMS in classrooms, but this software works in any setting that doesn’t require advanced processing power. the Berkeley job training center that empowers people with disabilities. the Berkeley job training center that empowers people with disabilities. Is It Right for Me? So What About Those Savings?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Because a couple of things, I do a lot of these trainings throughout the year and two thoughts I have before we start. So I give kudos to you for coming to this training today, that’s an important step, and then to actually implement it, right? One is you already know a lot. We start to take action. . And then an accuracy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I also wanted to recruit and train the next wave of nonprofit staffers since the aging middle of the movement seemed to be moving on. I transformed CNT into NetCorps as a response to recruiting, training, and placing college kids in nonprofit orgs to lead technology based projects. I then went on to help start NTEN as a board member.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Virtual Parent/Family Education - Richard Wollenberger This tool will provide video chat help for parents with children aged P-5/6; Trained parent educators will provide research-based support for specific early childhood issues via video chat. Looking for a business process/model for moving tech to each department.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And now, Reich is taking on Big Tech. Costello: But to Reich, this humanistic approach to tech is, increasingly, an anomaly in places like Silicon Valley. Reich: Right now, in Silicon Valley with Big Tech, we’re in the kind of late-teenager phase of development, where technologists have become fully aware of all of their power.

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