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Make your online community friendly to early careerists and keep your organization thriving

Nimble AMS

In fact, Community Brands research suggests that most members (76 percent!) join as a student, new grad, or within the first five years of employment. Your online community is already a powerful tool for providing a great member experience. Recruit and engage young professionals as community leaders.

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Supercharge Your Intern Program: 18 Proven Assignment Ideas Across Marketing, Data, & More

Whole Whale

Handwritten updates DonorsChoose.org is known for their epic handwritten notes from students. Have interns handwrite thank you notes to VIP members of the community. They can refine guest lists, do community outreach, and help with day-of craziness. Online file spaces on the cloud also have a tendency to devolve into a mess.

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

This increase, therefore, does not reflect philanthropic trends to the broader HBCU community. Grants to HBCUs have deep, broad, and long-lasting impacts on society HBCU staff and student participants in the qualitative research all highlighted that HBCUs’ history and legacy are rooted in creating safe spaces for Black scholars.

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Unlocking the Power of APIs: The SKY is the Limit!

sgEngage

You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do. Back to that summer of 2020, I had a calendar script running that populated student and teacher Google calendars with their class schedules.

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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Books with image descriptions will go back into the Bookshare library for students with print disabilities to use in their coursework.

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Key facts, figures, and trends among U.S. labor unions

Candid

While this blog is largely focused on new developments in unions’ engagement with philanthropy, it is important to acknowledge that unions have long encouraged their members to be engaged in the community. This approach recognizes that to move forward into the future, unions need to be engaged with wider community stakeholders.

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Delivering Bestsellers to the Bookshare Community

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Most of the books I work with are books requested by students and titles from the New York Times (NYT) bestsellers list. We also picked up books Carrie had previously ordered - including special requests from students who need specific texts for their classes. students thanks to support from the U.S.

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