Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

PowerMyLearning is a new, free online resource that has educational games, videos, and other activities for elementary, middle-school, and high school-aged students. CFY was founded by Elisabeth Stock in 1999 with the mission of helping low-income students do better in school by improving their learning environments at home.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

Lori Chidgey is Corazon Ministries' executive director. Lending Free Home Internet Access to Students and Job Seekers. Betty Martin is director of the Cape Girardeau Public Library , which is located about 115 miles southeast of St. Here is what keeps her going in this work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2012

Three months later, the Internet was born. Ben co-founded Games for Change and served as a co-director until 2007. He is currently a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Santa Cruz, researching how digital media foster civic engagement, informal learning and activism. Expert Guests.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

The library ordered 60 Dell refurbished desktop computers from TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) to provide its patrons with Internet access. Executive director Julie Lyles Carr says: "Anything that helps get the message out through technology is so important." " The Kosch-Westerman Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire. His definition: A style in which the trainer acts as a peer to the student, physically sitting with the student and explaining technical concepts simply.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

We met with the special education directors and curriculum chiefs of each state. The goal was to bring each of the key leaders from the island states up to speed on the NIMAS and NIMAC: the mandated and recommended elements of a strategy of delivering books to students with disabilities. Not quite ready for students, yet!

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Diversify Your Directors or Staff. When pricing your virtual event, consider including a free ticket tier, pay what you can (PWYC) options, and student pricing. Not every attendee will have access to a high-speed internet connection. Embracing and promoting diversity starts with you and your organization.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project Mobile Connections to Libraries study, 13 percent of patrons have visited a library website or accessed library services via a mobile device. Incorporating responsive web design into your overall website planning will give it a longer "shelf life" on the Internet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

They also use this to encourage employees taking part in nonprofit boards of directors — employees serving on a nonprofit's board of directors can receive their annual Dollars for Doers maximum in one lump sum without accounting for individual hours. Symantec Supports Women in Technology.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Diversify Your Directors or Staff. When pricing your virtual event, consider including a free ticket tier, pay what you can (PWYC) options, and student pricing. Not every attendee will have access to a high-speed internet connection. Embracing and promoting diversity starts with you and your organization.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Some are Internet ghosts. But most donors are drawn to several cause areas, so they may donate to a homeless shelter, a chess program for middle school students, a dog rescue, and an organization that supports women with breast cancer. Many major donors do not have high-profile online identities.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

For us, we felt that there were certainly incredible issues and basic needs at the moment, and lots of people came together around those things, like internet access, food, and essential things in schools. Nicole Evans, National Director, Resource Development Strategy & Communications, Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

Dan Meager, director of marketing at Diablo Ballet in Walnut Creek, CA. " Its purpose was to train students to experiment with, understand, and share art using social media and face-to-face interaction. work created from the Internet with the goal of making classical art forms more relevant.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

More mobile devices are sold worldwide than PCs, and mobile is expected to overtake PCs as the most popular way to access the Internet in the next few years. Director of Idealware. You've probably heard the statistics. So what does that mean for your organization? Sending broadcast SMS messages. Support services and programs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

1] Scheme is an obscure programming language that most Computer Science students learn, but almost no one else does, and almost no one produces production code in scheme. { I’ll describe what you’ll give up with these tools (if anything) compared to their popular proprietary counterparts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs).

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We called up Jen Tolentino, Director of Policy & Civic Tech at Rock the Vote to talk about their mobilization strategy and the role of technology in organizing. Today, the internet has really changed how we digitally organize young people. Rock the Vote has been mobilizing the youth vote for almost 30 years.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

But such educational opportunities are “often highly selective, and many barriers exist for students of color to both prepare for and access these programs,” the founders add. Both nonprofits are using tech to help students of color gain access to educational resources, readying them for high-paying careers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method. Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

At this summer's Blogher Conference, I had the opportunity to hear Lauren Gelman , Associate Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society , and Dean of State of Play Academy present at the blogging communities session called, " So, You Have This Crazy Idea."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Quentin Young, Founder, and Margie Schap, Executive Director Health & Medicine Policy Research Group. Quentin Young describes an early movement he was involved in: In 1937-39, I was a member of the American Student Union – a national organization of high school youth protesting    fascism, racism.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

They describe a process where 99% of the people involved get close to nothing for their efforts, the authors gives away right and the publishers just get to sit on their pot’ogold of academic knowlege and get student to pay inflated prices to use these works in school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He selected some definitions from the Internet. Internet is difficult to stop. Gabriela Tanasan – Executive Director, Orizonturi Foundation, Campulung Moldovenesc. Volunteer training - volunteer would design small projects and implement them in the communtiy - mental health care in the students. What is Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

According to John Carlin, the Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Director of the F.B.I, I’m the Executive Director of Exhale and I attended the conference to increase my own knowledge and awareness about how these legal and ethical issues around social networking may affect our work online with women who have had abortions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. This includes some of the most basic student essentials. Booster has given us a great new way to raise money for our supporters,” said Ruth Hoffman, Executive Director of ACCO. “No, No,” I protested. I’m not that old. He wasn’t convinced.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2007

Release all journalists and Internet users detained in China for exercising their right to information. Suspend the '11 Commandments of the Internet,' which lead to content censorship and self-censorship on websites. Reporters Without Borders is asking China to do nine things before the Games start: "1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

s democracy - it was just about showing the beauty of her country, sharing her experiences in school, and learning from her peers and fellow students. It is difficult for some women to write blogs because it requires going into an Internet cafe and women do not always feel welcome. She notes that women can blog about politics.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. Bob’s job is to set up and support “wired” schools and school districts.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Do you have volunteer tutors who can help students who are homeless with their work? For instance, how many of the students you tutor graduate high school? Potential partners will feel more comfortable to know that the Director of Services for your women’s shelter has a PhD and 10 years of experience in social work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Some of the new volunteers are high school students, others are college professors. Our programming director will arrive at 7pm on the dot from a six-hour rehearsal of a collaborative devised theater piece seven months in development and will leave early to go to an experimental movement workshop.

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