sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask. Undoubtedly, the tools we use to shape the world end up shaping us.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

When those who are responsible for an organization's overall fiscal management responded to a study by The Moody Foundation, it was found that nonprofits need to "fortify their financial skills to better forecast future needs, navigate economic instability, and manage risk." The Moody’s Foundation, 2011. 22. ^ [4] Ibid. Pg 18. ^ [5] Ibid.

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NTEN

JANUARY 26, 2021

In this environment, nonprofits can optimize their approach to time and expense management to maximize efficiency, enhance transparency, and demonstrate value at every level. Nonprofits will feel pressure to demonstrate value through impact and efficiency in an increasingly competitive environment. Overhead projections. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. A key differentiator between winners and losers will be winners’ capacity to figure out the correct balance in this new environment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2011

To create these breakthrough solutions, our team uses its skills to build upon the incredible talents and productivity of the larger tech community. We just bridge the gap between possibility and profitability. We see what’s already possible with technology, and build what we call the “last social mile.”

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Now imagine if you could harness the talent, skill, vision, and drive of all the smart people you know to create massive change for good. Whether you are a hacker at heart, a social do-gooder, a youth activist, or a developer with an innovative mind and skills to implement, we want your creativity entering the Microsoft marketplace.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

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. Courses that are recommended based on your learners and past data.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

TechSoup and Interconnection , one of our Refurbished Computer Initiative partners, teamed up to supply a group of nonprofits and libraries with everything they would need to set up a MultiPoint Server lab in their environment. Young Pham, who regards his tech skills as medium, set up the MultiPoint Server system.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

The MacArthur Foundation provided key support for the project by not only financing our work, but also funding computer literacy training for NHRC staff. In order to ensure that that our partners could use Martus, we strategized with them about how they will overcome the problems present in their specific environment.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

In its effort to help local people to meet local needs, LIN aims to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic environment and strengthen the communities. The program helps Vietnamese nonprofits to build staff capacity, apply for grants, and recruit skilled volunteers. It is densely populated with 92 million people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. The young people who don't have pervasive access will fall behind in terms of skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. New learning environment puts games at the center. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

blog Streetside Stories Mission: "Through the power of storytelling, Streetside values and cultivates young people’s voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy and arts skills." Urban Sprouts blog is also their website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

While in the early early 1990's I was helping people figure out which dipswitches on their modem to push or write and send email using PINE, this later morphed into helping people learn how to build web pages or develop web literacy skills. into gaining web social (networking) skills. And, now mid-2000 this has changed again.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

A changing social media environment is going to drive changes in strategies and tactics. Data literacy will become one of the most important skills for a nonprofit professional to possess. Build these skills and hire for them too. Social media will continue to be a channel for both engagement and giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The papers points out the benefits of these forms of participatory culture, including peer-to-peer learning, changed attitude toward intellectual property, skills valued in the modern workplace, etc. Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. The skill set: Play ??? Performance ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate. We had a group and teams with mixed level of skills and that be a little difficult. How to break down the skills with activities? Secondlife seems to me to lend itself much more to the environment end of the spectrum.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Discovery Center is a one-hour simulation in which groups of students (grade 5 and up) role play in a realistic, interactive environment. As Mira explained: The goal is for students to experience presidential decision making, and then debrief, discuss, and share, utilizing historical and civic literacy skills.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Hybrid: A hybrid auction takes the tools used in the virtual environment and brings them to the physical world. Either can be accomplished in a fully digital environment. DIY Craft Workshops Offer virtual craft workshops with participants paying a fee to attend and learn a new skill.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Gather a group of volunteers to pick up litter, plant trees, clean public spaces, and create a cleaner, more beautiful environment for everyone. Educational events hosted by nonprofits are powerful tools for sharing knowledge, developing skills, and empowering communities. Save your spot.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Leaders who find new ways to communicate organizational goals and invest in building their colleagues through learning will have established an environment where trust can flourish. Coaching is fundamental to the skill set of all leaders and is foundational to the manager/employee relationship.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Leaders who find new ways to communicate organizational goals and invest in building their colleagues through learning will have established an environment where trust can flourish. Coaching is fundamental to the skill set of all leaders and is foundational to the manager/employee relationship.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. So there's a pretty good amount in the Bay Area.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The project has been so successful at raising student reading skills that they hope to provide similar services to their non-disabled students as well. During our recent campaign to recruit new team members, Benetech has attracted qualified candidates by offering more than just good pay and a pleasant work environment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Here is a partial transcript from my interview with Viet-Ly: Viet-Ly: Streetside Stories is a nonprofit literacy arts program based in San Francisco and we work with the middle schools -- the public middle schools -- of the San Francisco Unified School District. Britt: What are some of the biggest challenges of the work that you do?

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Its mission is to protect and improve the health and wellness of the people of California by increasing access to health care, quality education, good jobs, healthy environments, and safe neighborhoods. Areas served: California. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Areas served: Texas-based organizations. Vermont Women’s Fund.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Its mission is to protect and improve the health and wellness of the people of California by increasing access to health care, quality education, good jobs, healthy environments, and safe neighborhoods. Areas served: California. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Areas served: Texas-based organizations. Vermont Women’s Fund.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Jacqueline Price Osafo, the first person of color to serve as executive director of the Society of American Archivists, made this observation about the environment. “My Receptivity to change and innovation, keeping organizations competitive and relevant in an evolving business environment. Everyone must have a voice.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if I provide 10 English as a second language or 10 computer literacy programs a year for 10 people, let’s just say that’s 100 pieces of content, that’s service. So earlier I mentioned maybe a parent who took English as a second language classes or maybe they got their GED or they took those computer literacy programs.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

We hope OneWEbDay can change that and help to build a global constituency of people who care about the health of our 21st century communications environment. For All. -- is all about digital inclusion, digital literacy, and working to close the many digital divides we face in our global society. This year's theme -- One Web.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

We have reality tours where we take people out to other parts of the world, kind of reverse Club Med, "get your butt off the beach and meet real people," see the development projects, the literacy campaigns, the women's groups, the political opposition parties, the trade unions, but focused on positive, build the next system kind of things.

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