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Microsoft OneNote Gives Dyslexic Kids a New Learning Experience

Tech Soup

The Ordyslexie program, in combination with Les Ateliers du Bocage, has helped more than 1,500 dyslexic French students become more independent and confident in school. This program has improved academic performance and is loved by both students and parents. The copies are submitted on a USB flash drive or directly."

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. Same for any prizes, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, or competitions (essay contests, spelling bees, etc. Offer surprise drawings and contests during the year. If you are copying it to the letter, ask permission.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process.

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How to Host a Dance-a-Thon Fundraiser

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Rather than needing to work with your city to map out a safe map route for a 5K or finding enough staff and volunteers to line a race route, you just need a venue and sound system to host a dance-a-thon fundraiser with an in-person component. How to plan a dance-a-thon fundraiser.

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Lean Impact Series: 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That’s where Lean Impact comes in: highlighting the organizations using Lean for social good, and to share those examples and lessons with other social good organizations. Once the team saw that the farmers were using the MVP system, they invested in and built out the full Fasal product infrastructure.

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Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We learned a lot about what did and didn’t work, and in the interests of transparency, we thought we’d share some of the lessons we learned along the way (and see if we can collect some ideas for next time.) Here are some of the lessons we’ve learned, and the things we’d have done differently. How it worked. What did we learn?

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The Big Chill: Why Nonprofits Should Care about Affirmative Action

Blue Avocado

1] These suits were brought by the (ironically named) Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, and they capitalized on a line of prior cases that had already begun to erode the practice.

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