Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When you work at a nonprofit or public library, it might feel like you constantly need to learn new skills to stay on top of emerging technology and adoption. Thankfully, there are many free or inexpensive training programs that can help you polish your technology skills. Digital Literacy Resources.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 9, 2023

Programs Designing the Best Membership Program for Nonprofits 9 min read Read Now Engagement You probably hear the word “engagement” frequently, but it can be difficult to define what it means for members. For example, consider an organization for educators focused on improving literacy rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. Brilliance by Design by Vicki Halsey. A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. Schoemaker.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In case you haven''t already grabbed a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller ''s new book, A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money , it will guide you through designing and implementing a content marketing strategy that will bring in supporters. Register now!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. You are someone who dreams about using your management and leadership skills and love of technology for social impact, exceeding the bounds of what a regular for-profit business can do.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Defining Digital Literacy.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of government, DEI, education, arts, health, cultural institutions, and annual reports for corporate communications. 2021 State of Babies Yearbook (Zero to Three).

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. Newsletters : AI writers can help nonprofits design and write newsletters that keep donors and supporters up-to-date on their latest activities and achievements.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2016

Join TechSoup for a series of webinars that offer something for everyone — from budding designers to sprouting Excel users. Nurture Your Photoshop Skills. Fertilize your fundamental Adobe Photoshop skills at Wes Holing's 60-minute webinar for advanced Photoshop beginners on Thursday, March 10. Sign up today.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

In partnership with these organizations, TechSoup will be hosting a series of webinars about technology and innovation for early childhood literacy organizations and researchers. Media Mentors: Building Literacy Skills for the Digital Age. In short, young children need media mentors. Register now. How TechSoup Can Help.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Your participants get the chance to showcase their unique skills–whether it’s singing, dancing, or any other talent they’d like to show off. Work with local clothing boutiques and designers to create runway looks and sell tickets for your community to get a look at upcoming items. Tax tips event Taxes are stressful!

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Nonprofit Management. Mar 11 - 13.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Financial literacy is an area where “fake until you make it” doesn’t apply. Designated Funds: Funds donated or granted for a specific purpose. Unless the designation is lifted by the giver, these funds need to be tracked separately to ensure they are used for their intended purpose. Endowments and designated gifts.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Their grantmaking aims to ensure that American public education prepares all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to fully participate in democracy and thrive in the global economy. They support strategic partners that focus on helping children succeed via a comprehensive approach to education. Kars4Kids Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Last week I was got to work on a week-long service trip in Cusco, Peru as part of Wake: Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange #Tech2empower program where womwn in who work in technology volunteer to share their professional skills and knowledge with women-run business owners. Training in breeding is part of the program.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2016

But if you're not relaxing on a sandy beach, why not learn some new tech skills? Join TechSoup on August 23 for a tour of training resources available to help your nonprofit, library, church, and foundation staffers increase their technology literacy and grow their tech skills. OK, I may have exaggerated a tiny bit.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

essential skill to include in basic digital literacy instruction, but. design curriculum and teach classes without a fear of becoming outdated. Internet safety can be a tricky subject to teach. determining what content to include and how to teach it can present many challenges.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In addition to journalism training, the women attend literacy and computer skills classes and are ultimately employed as by GPI where their experience and relationships enable them to report from the perspective of community members on the social injustice and other issues that impact them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Activities are designed to support organizational wellness for greater productivity and morale boosts. When identifying and designing activities for the workplace, it is important to understand: “What’s in it for me” or the value proposition for staff. Motivations and barriers for individuals to participate.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

How many times do we go to online giving sites and give up?” — Daniel Mansoor (see Science, technology, and design: A new framework in fundraising ). Yesterday’s best strategy may not be the best nonprofit digital strategy for today. . We’re in unusual times right now. It’s not business as usual.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

Manager of Curriculum Design & Innovation, ASU Lodestar Center and Lili Wang, Ph.D. Therefore, they prefer to hire experienced professionals—or those who have training in nonprofit leadership and management skills. We too dersire more instruction on financial literacy. Bush, Ph.D.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Our breakthrough in the conception of Martus came in 2000, when I was looking to expand Benetech to new frontiers of social good beyond our origins—helping disabled people access books in what is now our Global Literacy program. Beyond those top organizations, almost no groups had good technology designed for human rights documentation.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Design a training/onboarding process that reflects your organization. As you explore the different learning experience platforms available, make sure to look for these features: An intuitive interface so that any one of your employees, no matter their digital literacy, can use it easily.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Deloitte then came up with four design principles informed by millennials: Technology before/during/after learning programs enables people to connect. It''s important to equip them to learn leadership skills and hear what they are thinking. As a whole, millennials embodied the notion of bringing one''s "whole self" to work.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, education is essential to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Whether you're educating yourself or your staff, or teaching others technical skills, we can help you stay up-to-date on the latest technology, fundraising tools, or development strategies. September's here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Social Listening Literacy Skills. Step 2: Your Profile Design. Here's a neat tool to help you design your profile. How will you share the information? Not everyone has to do the deep dive or heavy lifting, how will you organize your team effort? How will you share the results of what you heard? If so, what reader?

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

The program helps Vietnamese nonprofits to build staff capacity, apply for grants, and recruit skilled volunteers. The LIN mission is to foster a culture of philanthropy and social responsibility by providing support services to local nonprofits, skilled volunteers, and donors who are committed to building strong communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

Nichole Pinkard , Director of Technology and Research Associate, Center for School Improvement, University of Chicago, working to expand after-school media literacy programs. Eric Zimmerman , CEO and founder, gameLab, working to develop new games to support media literacy and design skills in young people

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Another way they’re helping is through the internal Symantec Women's Action Network ( SWAN ) — which has eleven chapters and 1,350 members — and is designed to attract talented women and support their careers at Symantec. Education received approximately 50 percent of Symantec’s dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment. Gaming is literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. I got a copy of the book. What ideas, books, or concepts are helping you balance in a hyper-connected world?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

And one in five, or 23 percent of the adult American population , is functionally illiterate or lacks basic skills past a fourth-grade reading level. " New Heights Educational Group is designed to be one-stop shop for all education needs. For some, this bleak reality is also a call to action. Taking Education to New Heights.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

That said, I sympathize with the challenges involved in designing something like this--challenges we faced again and again when I was working on the Operation Spy immersive experience at the International Spy Museum. This post is here to raise questions: what kinds of choices are you letting participants make in the experiences you design?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

The future will reward nonprofits that move on to next generation practices designed to optimize the entire giving experience. Data literacy will become one of the most important skills for a nonprofit professional to possess. Build these skills and hire for them too. Add to that agility and empathy.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

" She asks: "As a web designer, I am very interested in the future of educational websites. Starting way back in 1995-96 when the web was just starting to explode with content, I focused a lot on searching skills, information literacy skills, how to organize and retrieve your finds, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

There is a gap in social skills, experience, and knowledge when you only have 10-15 minutes of access in library versus 24/7 access at home. The young people who don't have pervasive access will fall behind in terms of skills. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

The poetry program uses poetry books recommended by ReadBoston , one of the first citywide programs designed to help children learn to read. Will work with the instructors or lab volunteers on these areas: Step 1: Identify Useful, High Quality Internet Resources Tech Skills: Internet Search Skills, Information Literacy.

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