Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

You can learn more about the m and how they use technology to further their missions on TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map (LIM). Since 1993, GRuB has been using its farming programs to reduce high school drop-out rates b y teach low-income youth about proper nutrition and sustainability. million books per year.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment. Route 66 Literacy Our newest project is Route 66 Literacy, and it includes a demonstration site that anyone can try out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

Our project on Global Giving focuses on literacy which is key to education and jobs for poor children. The Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy program helps farm children learn their native alphabet and numbers well enough to attend elementary school. It's a route out of poverty. s poorest families. Take Action Now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2007

The title slide - "Teaching to Transform" should be a second or two longer and then hit me a visual that shows "transformation" -- maybe a bored student and then an engaged one. The point that blogging builds literacy - you show me a bunch of photos of kids at computers and a screenshot of the Starbucks campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. The average user on Facebook shares/creates 90 pieces of content a month. With over 800 million global users on Facebook , if you do the math – that’s a lot of information! That’s less true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

Making media together is another way to teach your children about various causes. Since her parents work in the Sharing Foundation's farm program, she attended the Foundation's Khmer Literacy School which helped her enter the local village school. If you make media with your kids, believe me you'll learn.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management. What makes this program unique is how it is making connections on a global scale across their large international workforce. The program leverages the business savvy of employees for social change.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. Sponsored by TechSoup Global (“ Sponsor ”), 435 Brannan St.,

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. Sponsored by TechSoup Global (“ Sponsor ”), 435 Brannan St.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

The past five years I have been teaching Spanish at an Elementary School and serve as the school???s I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. I enjoy sitting down with my girls and teach them about the tools that I am experimenting with. s webmaster. Why did you start Langwitches blog?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

We also agreed that we had to work harder at delivering our core common message that disadvantaged communities globally need much more than charitable handouts, they need access to the tools to help themselves. One joked about the nine months of follow-up work resulting from the five days at this meeting. Instant accomplishment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects. It can't just teach them to think about media, but making it on your own terms." It starts in the home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Grantees - like Global Kids - found the right group to fund. Working on a series of research studies on the benefits of games. New learning environment puts games at the center. How do those learning environments impact institutions?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The term social enterprise is in common use globally to describe enterprises that have a social welfare intent. The social enterprise movement is a global one, so we hope that the measured approach of the USPTO to this application is echoed by peer trademark authorities in other countries. Social enterprise is descriptive.

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MARCH 5, 2021

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education. Global Fund For Women. Wallace Global Fund. Boulware Foundation. eWomen Foundation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education. Global Fund For Women. Wallace Global Fund. Boulware Foundation. eWomen Foundation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

And in terms of how I got involved with SOUL, I was actually teaching for a very brief period in the Oakland middle schools. I was at that time working at a wonderful organization called Streetside Stories , which is a literacy arts organization with programming in various Title 1 middle schools in San Francisco. So I’m only 26.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But how will you know the answer if you don’t set up a test and use measurement and data to help you answer it. This is called “data literacy” — setting up a hypothesis and a way to measure it – and analyzing the results and deciding how to improve. To Promote or Not to Promote? (…and

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

Transparency is crucial because tracking, profiling, and behavioral marketing to users has become a widespread, global practice that often leaves us befuddled. At Common Sense Media , we believe that treating others’ information carefully, and teaching others to do the same, is a key factor in building and maintaining trust.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2012

Barry Joseph of Global Kids recently came to visit the Nonprofit Commons to discuss the potential of gaming for social change. And organizations like Global Kids, Gamestar Mechanic , Games for Change , and the AMD Foundation have been leading the way. Global Kids' Online Leadership Program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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