Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

They wanted to help students and teachers who were teaching from home that needed curriculum ideas and ways to engage their students in this new virtual environment.”. When we’re in person, some of those clients weren’t able to access our programs because there was no transportation. The [public] transit didn’t go there.”.

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Volunteer Story Technology Management 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

We know that when low-income families can access other people’s consumer feedback it is both extremely useful and a source of empowerment. For one nonprofit, the programmatic feedback of reviews on GreatNonprofits.org helped them better serve their students. This exchange is empowering, and technology has made it more accessible.

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Profit Student Review Empowerment 110

Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The students are generally post-high school, but have no access to further education or training. The organization focuses particularly on women and students in rural areas. The group provides a loving community where children can heal and grow. The group provides a loving community where children can heal and grow.

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South Africa Africa Profile Case Study 60

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. Effective communication, feedback, and engagement of stakeholders. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Evaluation Program Attitude Instruction 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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Literacy eBook Images Accessibility 208

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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Teen Netsquared Student Library 65

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. … Read More

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Open Guatemala Tips Training 70

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. competition Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab is encouraging community. As a 2010 winner. How are you enabling.

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Develop Oakland Teen Empowerment 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2010

Last week’s case study about how the Students for Free Tibet vets participation generated some great responses and advice in the comments from Wendy Harman , Red Cross and Stacey Monk , Epic Change, both veterans of online fundraising and voting contests. Will the contest provide a meaningful opportunity for stakeholder empowerment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

American Indian Resource Center’s mission is to develop culturally appropriate resources to meet the needs of Native American communities in the areas of education, health, and social services. Most Native American students do not go to college, so many Educational Talent Search. Their Educational Talent Search.

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Oklahoma Resource Profile Adobe 47

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock.

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Accessibility eBook People Copyright 135

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup. For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders.

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Giving North America Ghana China 44

Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

After a decade of steady development, Cloud for Good sought to continue to give back to the amazing communities that helped us get to where we are today. That is why we are thriving as a company, because of our team and their desire to go above and beyond to do good in the communities we serve.”. The Selection Process.

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Community Cancer Giving Grant 72

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D. Welcome to Research Friday ! He established Twin Cities Rise! ,

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Research Minnesota San Francisco Work 84

NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. They utilized an existing game engine that is popular among the PC modding community (Half Life 2). The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

It is a collaboration between American students and residents of Sikoro, a dusty periurban town of 65,000 people outside the capital city of Bamako, Mali. Some funding is exterior, but we are and will remain a low-budget organization, relying on the volunteerism of American students and Malian citizens.

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Mali Project Change NGO 40

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" I firmly believe that all people have something meaningful to contribute to our communities, cultural work, and society at large--including youth. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students.

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Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. What we do is essentially support social entrepreneurship within refugee communities. We work with about 60,000 refugees from across the continent.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects. It really showcases our efforts moving from beyond just relief to empowerment. Our culinary school is just one example.

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Puerto Rico Haiti Guatemala Hawaii 75

Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

supporters, and key partners in your work orbit/community. However, there are distinctions to keep in mind when using these resources: Product vs. Human Service – corporations provide products, nonprofits provide important work for their communities. leadership, collaboration, empowerment). The creation processes.

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Nonprofit International Team Process 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The director boldly stated that one goal of the remodel was to reconnect with the community. It could be chosen for reasons related to the institution''s mission (for example, a focus on youth empowerment) or for reasons related to the market demographics (for example, a growing number of Latinos). What would success look like?

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Demographics Audience Museum Arts 20

The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 23, 2023

Are they young activists passionate about climate change or experienced professionals with a heart for community development? For example, if your nonprofit focuses on youth empowerment, platforms like Instagram and Snapchat might be more effective than LinkedIn.

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Social Media Donation Media Fundraising 126

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. FINCA :: @ FINCA.

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Conservancy Nicaragua Kenya National 278

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Data, fraud prevention & legal responsibility) Public Digital Media Center - Sarah Francis Public Digital Media Center in a local underserved community. Includes computer labs, classrooms, video recording studio, and current technology accessible to the community. Collecting data on all user learning activity.

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Ideas North Carolina Map Children 94

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. She was an engaged community activist and people kept coming to her and talking to her about what was going on in Palestine and asking her to speak out about it.

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Children Iraq Lebanon Mail 45

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. And the little girls do exactly that.

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Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy. Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40