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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

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HBCUs have long played a pivotal role in the United States. Grants to HBCUs have deep, broad, and long-lasting impacts on society HBCU staff and student participants in the qualitative research all highlighted that HBCUs’ history and legacy are rooted in creating safe spaces for Black scholars.

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Building Online Portals for Full-Text Searches of Historical Archives

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The vast majority of these documents do not have full-text transcriptions or indexed data, making them difficult to search and largely inaccessible to historians, students, scholars, and the general public. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. government and states like Texas.

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Candid Data for Academics: Go back to school with better data 

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To college students, it might mean the start of a new year of knowledge and self-discovery. paper filings, Candid Seal of Transparency status, and the Philanthropy Classification System). Research about the social sector is growing in the United States and around the world.

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Key facts, figures, and trends among U.S. labor unions

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In that campaign, the CTU pursued demands beyond their own wages and benefits to aid their students, including: smaller class sizes, a nurse and counselor in every school, and resources for homeless students. 1] Source: Based on 501(c)(5) organizations appearing on the April 2021 Business Master File. 3] Zullo, Roland.

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“Seeding by ceding”: What we know about the latest group of organizations funded by MacKenzie Scott

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These included higher education institutions with students from underserved communities, arts organizations, and social sector infrastructure organizations. Because these recipients are not organizations with IRS 990 filings (from which we derive revenue data), they are not included in the graph above. . Geography . and Puerto Rico.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

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So, the student might be able to read only 60% of the relevant content, and have no idea about what the equations say. Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty. Amazon now ships more ebooks than print books in the United States.

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