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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. This week, nearly a year after first beginning to work with Room to Read, we’re proud to be taking part in promoting Literacy Day.

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The Maker Party is on! Join the global campaign to teach the web.

NTEN

Similar to Mozilla, we share the belief that the web is a global public resource that’s an essential part of our modern life. That’s why we’re supporting this global effort to teach web literacy through hands-on learning and making with the Maker Party. Tell us about your experience and we may feature your story in NTEN''s blog!

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Leveraging the SDGs to Maximize Your Impact

sgEngage

Each step you take to maximize your impact creates a ripple that carries through to create global change. Once you understand your part in this matrix of good, you can better tell your story and articulate your value in grant writing.

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How to Engage Employees in National (Virtual) Volunteer Month

Saleforce Nonprofit

With those amazing benefits in mind, the Salesforce.org philanthropy team chose two organizations to work with that aligned with the strategic vision and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #4, Education: Story Pirates and Simbi Foundation. Employees could participate in two volunteering activities: Read for good with Simbi Foundation.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else?

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Member Round Up: A busy September with new research, a cure for website obesity, and world literacy day

NTEN

Beth''s Blog recently featured a guest post by Christian Arno, Using Social Media Internationally: How Not to Get Lost in Translation , full of useful tips for anyone with a global audience. The Case Foundation crunched some numbers on impact investing, read the full story and see what they found. Register now!

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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It wasn’t until 1993, when a reconstruction of these events by American journalist Mark Danner first appeared in The New Yorker , that the full story of the El Mozote massacre was brought to light and sent shock waves through the international community. Being geeks, we thought of ways to address this challenge with technology.

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