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Weekly update from PND

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Launched in partnership with the Ford Foundation , which has committed $3 million in matching funds as part of its America's Cultural Treasures initiative , Southern Cultural Treasures is aimed at fostering lasting stability and resiliency among arts communities across the South.

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Women, Girls, Education and Global Health: Interview with Carinne Brody

Have Fun - Do Good

She is conducting an evaluation of a reproductive health voucher program in Uganda and Cambodia as part of her dissertation, and she co-instructs the International Maternal and Child Health Seminar, and the Maternal and Child Health Core course at UC Berkeley. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. Around Gender.

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PopTech Fellows Program: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . The Audience As Part of the Presentation.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality. I’m wondering if it would be immodest of me to mention my nomination. What the heck.

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Women Who Tech Around the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. The program includes an IT program where women receive weekly instruction in using Microsoft Office and navigating the Internet. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A.

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