Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

We also found nearly 20% of respondents aged 45-64 did not have checking accounts, revealing that our older clients needed more financial literacy programming to avoid slipping into poverty. Rather than competing for limited resources, we are collaborating to secure funding and bring about policy change.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

"What are the best ways to foster collaboration?" How to pick the best tools for your particular collaboration challenges. Collaborative Conversations have been convened in client companies such as Genentech, NASA, The National Park Service at Yosemite, UCSC, and The Center for Interfaith Relations.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Inspiration can come from an assortment of places, but to be connected to collaborative opportunities you need to have relationships across different organizations in your community. John Hancock was approached by the mayor of Boston in 2008 with a collaborative opportunity that falls in the latter category.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. How can we make tactiles easier to produce, use and share?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Box.org provides organizations with the Box file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. You can use Box's cloud-based storage and collaboration tools to replace traditional on-premises file servers and traditional file-sharing processes. TechSoup is proud to announce our newest donor partner, Box.org.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Power in Partnerships: Collaborate with Hispanic businesses or influencers for events or initiatives. This could range from financial literacy workshops to mentoring programs. It streamlines operational tasks, from setting up fundraising campaigns for financial literacy workshops to handling registrations for mentoring programs.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In Tableau’s Building Data Literacy Guide , 80% of employees report they’d stay in their job if they were trained in technology. Prioritizing data literacy will empower your staff as innovators, helping staff to enact lasting change at your association. . Routine training is key to better skilled and more productive employees.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. A few months ago, I attended Microsoft Citizenship's YouthSpark Connection event and heard first-hand from recent high school graduates about how dire the need for digital literacy is.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

New Heights, by promoting literacy through a wide range of programs, has produced radical results. " Equal Access Through Online Collaboration. " In this spirit, New Heights provides everything from tutoring services to curriculums, a library with more than 3,000 books, field trips, and online classes. Well, that's why.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. and James L. Route 66 pairs this reading content with teaching tools and learning exercises, effectively empowering any literate person to become an early reading instructor.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Glenn Stein, a community organizer who wound up as “the guy in charge of computers” before founding Byte Back, started the organization in collaboration with his friend Barbara Altman. They achieve this through transformative digital advocacy, digital literacy, and tech certification training. Background.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. We are also doing far more to spread the word about technology for rights activists, often in close collaboration with major partners in the human rights field such as Human Rights Watch and WITNESS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

But, everyone can raise their data literacy, especially visualization. So, as I curate resources on this topic, I was excited to discover Rahul Bhargava – a data nerd who writes the Data Therapy Blog for the MIT Center for Civic Media. .” Why this resource?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

You can read more about how this project will create lasting impact in India in a blog post by Betsy Beaumon , VP and General Manager of our Global Literacy Program. Three of my peers had really great ideas for software for solving significant problems in their work, and I’m still excited about these possibilities for collaboration.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

What about that literacy initiative, or the Jobs Program? Thus, privacy can be sustained and collaboration encouraged quickly, easily, and at very low cost. Need to focus on Elder Care? Does your disaster relief team have the private space to plan and the public tools to get out important bulletins?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Her experience includes 8+ years of Marketing, Communication, and Program Management for organizations working on issues such as poverty, financial literacy, voter engagement, health research, and the public arts. Cierra believes effective internal communications are essential to nonprofit success.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute will also provide opportunities for attendees to create meaningful connections and potential collaborations. Our institute will also provide opportunities for attendees to create meaningful connections and potential collaborations. Presented in collaboration with African American Development Officers Network (AADO).

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Since then, Forum One has completed multiple reports each year under the NAEP program, including the most recent 2019 Nation’s Report Cards for Mathematics, Reading, and Science, and the 2018 Technology and Engineering Literacy, Civics, Geography, and U.S. American Council of Learned Societies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Social media literacy and facility is a 21st century core capacity. (3) 3) If we want to collaborate; if we see the advantages of shared knowledge and collective action, then technology can help us make it real. 4) The organizational frame is not the only frame and it is inadequate.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The Auburn Public Library is collaborating with Best Buy to offer free technical assistance to community members. digital inclusion tslibraryorg digital literacy' Images: The Internet Is Important to Everyone was developed by OCLC and made possible with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

While respecting individual privacy and our other values, we foster a collaborative work environment through open communication. Benetech’s partnerships in literacy, human rights and environmental conservation are matching the creativity of the high-tech sector with the efforts of grassroots leaders around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

The book covers five digital literacies – each starting with an illustration by Anthony Weeks that graphically communicates the key points. They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation. “Judgement, taste, depth, and breadth of knowledge can be an asset, a public good, and a commodity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. Conclusion Thanks to the commitment of our supporters, partners, collaborators, volunteers, and staff, Benetech is increasing both the scale and scope of our work. Martus Desktop 4.5 and Mobile Martus 1.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

New media literacy: ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to leverage these media for persuasive communication. Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines. Robin aptly points out that these skills are also required for content curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

A team culture that prioritizes collaboration and excellence. ½ Interfaith literacy events and interesting learning opportunities. Some of our most popular perks include: Accrued paid time off starting at 15 days per year. 5 floating holidays and 7 fixed holidays per year. Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Harkin’s work, especially his efforts to guarantee that every child has the opportunity to pursue quality education, infuses everything we at Benetech do through our Literacy Program to transform the lives and outcomes of individuals with disabilities.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 23, 2017

From improving literacy to helping communities recover after natural disasters, nonprofits take on vital roles to do good in the world. Ask them to make introductions to foundations — if not to sponsor then to collaborate on events for the greater good of the community. There are currently over 1.5 Contribute to supporters, too.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Once the corporation is sold on the idea of partnering with a nonprofit organization, keeping their attention is of utmost importance to ongoing collaboration. Of course, reputation is also important to nonprofits; thus, nonprofits should ensure that they are collaborating with socially responsible corporations. Sources: Brudney, J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

The "efficiency or personal productivity suite" would be the place for all business and work related email and activities that are not related to social media and don't require collaboration. Certainly we have a baseline of digital literacy skills , but what does that mean in web 2.0, social media context?

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The Gray Family Foundation works to encourage greater civic engagement in Oregon through investments that promote environmental literacy and giving back to the systems that nurture all of us: our culture, our natural environment, and our communities. . Areas served: US. The New England Grassroots Environment Fund. Gray Family Foundation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

" Some examples of social issues that you may want to explore include clean water, literacy, food security, and the environment. Create a Windows 8 app focused on social good (collaborations encouraged!). These are all, but not limited to issues that can be aided through the creative use of technology through apps.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

The study reveals that current leaders in the local nonprofit sector believe the skills most needed in the nonprofit workforce are financial literacy, communication (verbal and writing skills), knowledge of laws pertaining to the nonprofit sector, information technology, volunteer management, and donor cultivation. All You Need is Love.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2016

Kylander and Stenzel’s book is the result of more than two years of research and collaborative effort, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, to examine the role of brands in the nonprofit sector and recognize that nonprofits are over-relying on corporate sector practices to oversee their brands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

This ended up being a collaboration because Harry had to go to bed and I didn't want him to miss story time -- so I finished the narration. Since her parents work in the Sharing Foundation's farm program, she attended the Foundation's Khmer Literacy School which helped her enter the local village school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

A lot the products of my sense-making are shared through this blog, flickr, YouTube, and Slideshare – as well as offline through presentations, book and article writing, and facilitating workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Brian Solis’s The End of Business As Usual and Brian Reich’s Shift and Reset. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ).

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

The concept of] family literacy is also very important in our community. Initially they were perhaps less sure of its outcomes, but the program's mission certainly fits the mandate of the library. "The library is a place for lifelong education, and needs to resonate with the community.

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