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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

In this post, I’ll share funding and grant resources for nonprofits involved in the education sector. Similar to the funders in my previous post on education , the organizations listed below focus their efforts on activities inside and outside of the classroom. Funding Priority: Education. The Awesome Foundation. First Book.

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Inside Goodwill’s #LaborofLove Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When people donate to or shop at Goodwill’s more than 3,200 stores, they help provide job placement and training programs that support people facing challenges to employment, including veterans and military families, people with disabilities, youth, older workers and many others. What is the #LaborofLove Campaign? According to the U.S.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was tremendous optimism about the value of training engineers and scientists and how that would benefit all of humanity, especially in the southern California of a century ago which was reshaped through the wonders of technology. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Stay Ahead of AI’s Magic

.orgSource

AI can be trained to mimic its programmer’s values, but it is unable to independently distinguish right from wrong or good from evil. Make appropriate training available. There are many online educational opportunities. Manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics are just a few of the industries using robotics.

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WWHKD? (What would Helen Keller do?)

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

I was lucky enough to learn about her when I was a child, so I grew up knowing about the Perkins School for the Blind , the inspiring education institution that she attended. My new (and highly affectionate) sobriquet for Perkins is The Educational-Industrial Complex. And - oh, yeah - they also have a school on campus.

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WORTH Trust Solves Tech Woes to Help More Kids in India

Tech Soup

With doctors giving no hope that his eyesight would get any better, his parents were constantly worried about his education and ability to support himself. Creating Opportunities for Training and Employment. Technical training centers provide free vocational training to boys and girls with orthopedic and hearing challenges.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. We manage continuing education (CE) credit transactions: a learner completes a CE activity and receives CE credit, or “credit hours,” in return.

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