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Most Native American students do not go to college, so many Educational Talent Search. The program serves 750 students in 14 rural schools. Heather designs Microsoft PowerPoint -based games, like the Jeopardy inspired one she did that prepares kids for OHLAP , which is a scholarship program for Oklahoma students to attend Oklahoma colleges and universities. There is a wide array of nonprofit organizations that serve the 1.6 million Native Americans in the U.S. MORE
A six-week Managed Services contract was provided to assist in declarative UI updates, automation support, process refinement, system owner empowerment, help with third-party applications, and training to further user adoption, enablement, and comfortability with reports and dashboards. MORE
As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. an intensive, year-long empowerment and skills-based training for the returning men, coupled with a marketing strategy of recruiting business customers to hire graduates of the program. posted by. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D. Welcome to Research Friday ! MORE
One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students. He strategically includes images of students from Pajaro Valley High, so when he asks, “See anyone you know on here?” While this may not matter to an A student, many struggling youth are miles away from the 200+ credits required to graduate. MORE
I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. So what is it about a teacher-student relationship that we can learn from to provide really good technical support? Second, Empowerment. MORE
Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. It works well for students in the United States, but we’re still not reaching American adults to the extent we would like. All students around the world have access to rich and varied educational content. • I believe in the power of books to change the world. MORE
Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects. It really showcases our efforts moving from beyond just relief to empowerment. Our students are getting all this amazing training and coming out with beautiful dishes. MORE
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. MORE
Why do Imagine Cup students develop more field-based IT innovation in 9 months than nonprofits in 5 years? Dahna Goldstein, PhilanTech, talked about reasons why tech changes fail: no leader/champion, no direction from the top, no context, lack of communication/poor communication and lack of involvement/empowerment. Note: This was first published on the Care2's Frogloop Blog on September 29, 2009.). MORE
Consider reaching out to local universities to tap into departments, professors, and students for consulting, resources, and education. By following these steps, your organization can replace poor capacity with self-sufficiency, self-determination, and empowerment. MORE
Stones Worldview Tango - Richard Cirille Empowering learning for students world wide. Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness. [Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. Credit: Broken Banjo Photography] It takes a lot to jump onstage and pitch a brand new idea in front of a new group of people. Will they laugh at you, start to cheer, or be intrigued? MORE
The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. It was actually from students at a school in Gaza who met with our Director of Gaza Projects. This year they're celebrating 30 years of serving the region. With programs ranging from education, sports, income generation and more, we’re proud to stand with such an incredible organization! MORE
Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. Betty and six of her high school English students founded an organization called the Girl Child Network. MORE
That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. The Alliance for Climate Education’s mission is to educate high school students on the science behind climate change and inspire them to take action to curb global warming. MORE
The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. He expects students to read the assignment before they come to class so that instructional time can be spent helping them make sense of it and apply to their work. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them. MORE
Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse. By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. MORE
story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. greater access for youth and foster empowerment through skills. This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. MORE
Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. Haven't you changed the model some, because it was a fundraising model through students fundraising, and now it's a little bit different? We would bring students. MORE
Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. For nonprofits whose target audience is primarily underserved youth, the task of finding funding shouldn’t be difficult. MORE
Last week’s case study about how the Students for Free Tibet vets participation generated some great responses and advice in the comments from Wendy Harman , Red Cross and Stacey Monk , Epic Change, both veterans of online fundraising and voting contests. Will the contest provide a meaningful opportunity for stakeholder empowerment? Source: Extreme Foods. MORE
It aims to provide a gateway towards empowerment, educational, and employment opportunities to lead a fulfilling, prosperous, and purposeful life. Its programs are directly tied to career pathways and provide students with vocational certifications at little or no cost to them. But students also come away with significant increases in their perceived self-value and a decrease in perceived barriers to success. It also costs students the ability to complete their work. MORE
Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean. In 2005 the principal of Hadley-China, Rongqiang Xia, contacted Hadley students and staff who spoke native English to see if they would like to teach Chinese Hadley students English over the internet. Students ask questions about English usage. MORE
And so we started Art in Action camp six years ago to invite 25 youth from urban areas to participate in skills-building, giant puppets, dance and theater and we've also done a lot of work around diversity and anti-racism and looking at gender and looking at homophobia, and then we do a lot of personal empowerment work, really building up people's self-esteem and cultivating their leadership individually and on a more emotional or spiritual level, if you will. MORE
It was my birthday and the culmination of a campaign to raise money for Cambodian children that I used an action learning project for the students. We actually eat chocolate in class as part of the exercise! It also helped students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection. Employ empowerment marketing. MORE
They wanted to help students and teachers who were teaching from home that needed curriculum ideas and ways to engage their students in this new virtual environment.”. “None of us were ready for this. MORE
For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders. movement, a world of 7 billion has implications for sustainability, urbanization, access to health services, and youth empowerment. SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup. MORE
Because it was my first time meeting the students, part of the half hour was spent getting to know each other. I highly recommend volunteering with young people, whether they are as little as a kindergartner, or as old as a college student. Organizations like these teach everything from sports, to science, to the arts, to girl empowerment. By Tweeting on momdot Image credit: Cover from Streetside Stories ' student anthology of autobiographical stories (I used to work there). MORE
Re-empowerment of the nonprofit worker and resulting transformation into a knowledge worker, data re-presented as knowledge – these are all themes for Nonprofit 2.0. MORE
There are no courses in our public school systems that teach students how to use a. in Arizona, there is a bill being proposed that would mandate all students to receive some type of financial literacy education before graduating from high school. If it passes, our students could become the most financially savvy high school graduates in the country. posted by. Kristen Coco , Program Developer. MORE
A client of mine works to create an equitable playing field for low-income students in middle and high school. They understand integrating the students themselves into the work is a big way to achieve the organization’s goals. MORE
The students are generally post-high school, but have no access to further education or training. The organization focuses particularly on women and students in rural areas. The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. Saint Anthony's Education Centre empowers underserved students with education and job training. MORE
Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States. I’ve just returned from a two-week trip to Guatemala hosted by Wake. MORE
It is a collaboration between American students and residents of Sikoro, a dusty periurban town of 65,000 people outside the capital city of Bamako, Mali. Some funding is exterior, but we are and will remain a low-budget organization, relying on the volunteerism of American students and Malian citizens. If you are interested in volunteering your time, we have two volunteer positions open at any point in time Mali, preference given to students or recent college grads. MORE
We know that when low-income families can access other people’s consumer feedback it is both extremely useful and a source of empowerment. For one nonprofit, the programmatic feedback of reviews on GreatNonprofits.org helped them better serve their students. Communities In Schools of Pittsburgh-Allegheny County, heard from one of its students about its school day schedule. “We MORE
I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy. Benetech is going to be able to comply with any reasonable legislation around student privacy, and we’re supportive of improved privacy standards. Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library. MORE
In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8% MORE
It could be chosen for reasons related to the institution''s mission (for example, a focus on youth empowerment) or for reasons related to the market demographics (for example, a growing number of Latinos). For example, there is good research suggesting that school field trips to art museums are disproportionately valuable for students from poor and rural backgrounds. Does this mean that we should try to make school tours disproportionately accessible to these students? MORE
The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. iPad, iPhone, MacOS) is a student planner that helps you keep track of your class schedule, track your grades and GPA, manage homework assignments, and create an interactive calendar. MORE
ASU Lodestar Center
JUNE 12, 2013
There are no courses in our public school systems that teach students how to use a. in Arizona, there is a bill being proposed that would mandate all students to receive some type of financial literacy education before graduating from high school. If it passes, our students could become the most financially savvy high school graduates in the country. posted by. Kristen Coco , Program Developer.
Tech Soup Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
It aims to provide a gateway towards empowerment, educational, and employment opportunities to lead a fulfilling, prosperous, and purposeful life. Its programs are directly tied to career pathways and provide students with vocational certifications at little or no cost to them. But students also come away with significant increases in their perceived self-value and a decrease in perceived barriers to success. It also costs students the ability to complete their work.
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EveryAction
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. It was actually from students at a school in Gaza who met with our Director of Gaza Projects. This year they're celebrating 30 years of serving the region. With programs ranging from education, sports, income generation and more, we’re proud to stand with such an incredible organization!
EveryAction
JULY 23, 2018
Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects. It really showcases our efforts moving from beyond just relief to empowerment. Our students are getting all this amazing training and coming out with beautiful dishes.
Social Velocity
MARCH 11, 2021
A client of mine works to create an equitable playing field for low-income students in middle and high school. They understand integrating the students themselves into the work is a big way to achieve the organization’s goals.
Kindful
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. For nonprofits whose target audience is primarily underserved youth, the task of finding funding shouldn’t be difficult.
Cloud 4 Good
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
A six-week Managed Services contract was provided to assist in declarative UI updates, automation support, process refinement, system owner empowerment, help with third-party applications, and training to further user adoption, enablement, and comfortability with reports and dashboards.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 22, 2007
Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean. In 2005 the principal of Hadley-China, Rongqiang Xia, contacted Hadley students and staff who spoke native English to see if they would like to teach Chinese Hadley students English over the internet. Students ask questions about English usage.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 2, 2013
That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. The Alliance for Climate Education’s mission is to educate high school students on the science behind climate change and inspire them to take action to curb global warming.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8%
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy. Benetech is going to be able to comply with any reasonable legislation around student privacy, and we’re supportive of improved privacy standards. Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library.
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 25, 2013
The students are generally post-high school, but have no access to further education or training. The organization focuses particularly on women and students in rural areas. The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. Saint Anthony's Education Centre empowers underserved students with education and job training.
ASU Lodestar Center
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Consider reaching out to local universities to tap into departments, professors, and students for consulting, resources, and education. By following these steps, your organization can replace poor capacity with self-sufficiency, self-determination, and empowerment.
Tech Soup Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2012
The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. iPad, iPhone, MacOS) is a student planner that helps you keep track of your class schedule, track your grades and GPA, manage homework assignments, and create an interactive calendar.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. It works well for students in the United States, but we’re still not reaching American adults to the extent we would like. All students around the world have access to rich and varied educational content. • I believe in the power of books to change the world.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 24, 2007
I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. So what is it about a teacher-student relationship that we can learn from to provide really good technical support? Second, Empowerment.
Beth Kanter
JULY 9, 2012
We know that when low-income families can access other people’s consumer feedback it is both extremely useful and a source of empowerment. For one nonprofit, the programmatic feedback of reviews on GreatNonprofits.org helped them better serve their students. Communities In Schools of Pittsburgh-Allegheny County, heard from one of its students about its school day schedule. “We
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
It was my birthday and the culmination of a campaign to raise money for Cambodian children that I used an action learning project for the students. We actually eat chocolate in class as part of the exercise! It also helped students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection. Employ empowerment marketing.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 25, 2010
Last week’s case study about how the Students for Free Tibet vets participation generated some great responses and advice in the comments from Wendy Harman , Red Cross and Stacey Monk , Epic Change, both veterans of online fundraising and voting contests. Will the contest provide a meaningful opportunity for stakeholder empowerment? Source: Extreme Foods.
Tech Soup Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2011
story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. greater access for youth and foster empowerment through skills. This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog.
NTEN
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Stones Worldview Tango - Richard Cirille Empowering learning for students world wide. Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness. [Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. Credit: Broken Banjo Photography] It takes a lot to jump onstage and pitch a brand new idea in front of a new group of people. Will they laugh at you, start to cheer, or be intrigued?
Beth Kanter
MARCH 17, 2017
Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States. I’ve just returned from a two-week trip to Guatemala hosted by Wake.
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.
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 8, 2012
Most Native American students do not go to college, so many Educational Talent Search. The program serves 750 students in 14 rural schools. Heather designs Microsoft PowerPoint -based games, like the Jeopardy inspired one she did that prepares kids for OHLAP , which is a scholarship program for Oklahoma students to attend Oklahoma colleges and universities. There is a wide array of nonprofit organizations that serve the 1.6 million Native Americans in the U.S.
Beth Kanter
JANUARY 5, 2012
The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. He expects students to read the assignment before they come to class so that instructional time can be spent helping them make sense of it and apply to their work. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them.
Have Fun - Do Good
MARCH 13, 2009
Because it was my first time meeting the students, part of the half hour was spent getting to know each other. I highly recommend volunteering with young people, whether they are as little as a kindergartner, or as old as a college student. Organizations like these teach everything from sports, to science, to the arts, to girl empowerment. By Tweeting on momdot Image credit: Cover from Streetside Stories ' student anthology of autobiographical stories (I used to work there).
Tech Soup Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2011
For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders. movement, a world of 7 billion has implications for sustainability, urbanization, access to health services, and youth empowerment. SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup.
NTEN
OCTOBER 13, 2009
Why do Imagine Cup students develop more field-based IT innovation in 9 months than nonprofits in 5 years? Dahna Goldstein, PhilanTech, talked about reasons why tech changes fail: no leader/champion, no direction from the top, no context, lack of communication/poor communication and lack of involvement/empowerment. Note: This was first published on the Care2's Frogloop Blog on September 29, 2009.).
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 4, 2015
It could be chosen for reasons related to the institution''s mission (for example, a focus on youth empowerment) or for reasons related to the market demographics (for example, a growing number of Latinos). For example, there is good research suggesting that school field trips to art museums are disproportionately valuable for students from poor and rural backgrounds. Does this mean that we should try to make school tours disproportionately accessible to these students?
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 25, 2012
As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. an intensive, year-long empowerment and skills-based training for the returning men, coupled with a marketing strategy of recruiting business customers to hire graduates of the program. posted by. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D. Welcome to Research Friday !
Museum 2.0
JULY 6, 2016
One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students. He strategically includes images of students from Pajaro Valley High, so when he asks, “See anyone you know on here?” While this may not matter to an A student, many struggling youth are miles away from the 200+ credits required to graduate.
Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 8, 2007
It is a collaboration between American students and residents of Sikoro, a dusty periurban town of 65,000 people outside the capital city of Bamako, Mali. Some funding is exterior, but we are and will remain a low-budget organization, relying on the volunteerism of American students and Malian citizens. If you are interested in volunteering your time, we have two volunteer positions open at any point in time Mali, preference given to students or recent college grads.
NTEN
AUGUST 16, 2011
Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse. By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage.
Have Fun - Do Good
JUNE 19, 2009
Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. Haven't you changed the model some, because it was a fundraising model through students fundraising, and now it's a little bit different? We would bring students.
Have Fun - Do Good
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. Betty and six of her high school English students founded an organization called the Girl Child Network.
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
APRIL 20, 2006
Re-empowerment of the nonprofit worker and resulting transformation into a knowledge worker, data re-presented as knowledge – these are all themes for Nonprofit 2.0.
Have Fun - Do Good
JUNE 29, 2006
And so we started Art in Action camp six years ago to invite 25 youth from urban areas to participate in skills-building, giant puppets, dance and theater and we've also done a lot of work around diversity and anti-racism and looking at gender and looking at homophobia, and then we do a lot of personal empowerment work, really building up people's self-esteem and cultivating their leadership individually and on a more emotional or spiritual level, if you will.
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