Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Whatever the disruption, staff, faculty, and students will be called to support and uplift the institution’s mission. Shifts in how education institutions conduct business continually change how we define student success. Now, however, we’ve found that the extent of a student’s well-being is one of the greatest indicators of success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. It also has benefits to students themselves who can use the data to customize their participation in the class.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2015

For some of our other neighbors in the SoMA district, it has been anything but quiet, with the loudest sound coming from that of the gavel. This trend has been gaining steam and is expected to have global implications. Samaschool has ambitious plans to increase its reach from 1,500 students in 2016 to 20,000 in 2018.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 11, 2007

The first is the initial international changes as we take Bookshare.org global. can easily see which books have global permissions, which are required when we can't rely on our copyright exemption (which only works inside the U.S.). Crucial first steps on the road to taking this service global!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

The Ordyslexie program, in combination with Les Ateliers du Bocage, has helped more than 1,500 dyslexic French students become more independent and confident in school. This program has improved academic performance and is loved by both students and parents. The copies are submitted on a USB flash drive or directly."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. How does 11K gb connection speed sound to you? It’s a student crowd, including grad students, and it’s a first job — of the “Is this all there is?&# He has seen it all.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

Conversation Two I had agreed to act as a mentor to a Global Changemaker, in this case Mousa Mousawy, an Iraqi teenager now living in Jordan. I’m going to chew on this more, but it sounded like a terrific opportunity for someone like Benetech! What a great kick-off for a day!

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

Our learning instruction we receive from youth into early adulthood is fairly regimented; teachers are taught how to convey information to students, and for the most part, they engage in the same methodology across their efforts. Convey teachings in a manner that doesn’t sound like a dictionary definition.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

—– Whether it’s political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. This is my guest post on Care2′s Frogloop blog. You can visit the original post and comment there, or see the repost in full below.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2011

Whether it's political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. Instead, what if you asked students to finish the sentence "My teacher deserves an apple because." But how does it help you move closer to your goal?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The initiative seeks to support ordinary people in accomplishing extraordinary things by helping them to tackle national and global challenges. More than 75% say they will regularly give to charity, versus 63% in 1989, according to a nationwide survey by the Girl Scout Research Institute of 3,263 students in grades three through 12."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m working in Dubai this week and have lined up some guest posts from some colleagues. Daniel Ben-Horin from TechSoup Global wrote a thought provoking post over at the SSIR about generational differences in nonprofits when it comes to trying to scale social change strategies using social technologies.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 7, 2018

It sounds a bit selfish, but it is simply referencing that all of us have reasons for doing things at our workplace—maybe we have a passion for students, or we like procedures to be followed, or we enjoy meeting new people–but only focusing on that in the short term does not foster sustainable commitment and job satisfaction.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

posted by Rudy Frank Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Global 2000 businesses have recognized gamification as a powerful tool to engage consumers and motivate them to purchase more products.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The program empowers 12- to 18-year-olds to express their opinions and perspectives about issues important to them through photography, sound, video, and digital art. students with a global audience. The Adobe Foundation believes in the power of sharing the youth-generated media and perspectives of Adobe Youth Voices.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. They’re calling it The Fog.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

And they’re certainly not exempt from a global pandemic. responding to a global pandemic is a matter of doubling-down on what they know. It was a surround-sound approach to make sure that all the messaging was consistent, but tailored to meet the interests and needs of our varying audiences. Michele Lunsford, U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

In-world speakers from nonprofits who spoke about their work included Evonne Heyning from Camp Darfur, Barry Joseph from Global Kids , Lori Bell from the Library Alliance , and Marc Sirkin from LLS. Also, we should ask people not to take photos or chat during the presentations as the sound of cameras snapping made the audio hard to hear.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 27, 2022

IUAA works to activate and support the global IU alumni network by encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with the university and inspiring ongoing generosity and engagement. While this feature sounds like a given nowadays, it is this modern, and predictive consumer experience that IUA was lacking before Salesforce.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

I probably know less than Jenny [a student speaking at the rally] about whence I speak, and possess maybe a quarter of her energy, and yet the unitiated and heretofore uninterested are now beginning to pool to hear what Basher Tarr of Ocean's eleven/twelve/ etc. Keep It Sound 4. has to say. Don't be too unstructured 6.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Aaron: Sounds great. Aaron: Yeah, sounds good, Brian. They moved to a transitional campus, and they began to add students and kind of expand their services to those students. And even one-off things like the sound wallboards that deafen sound, he found people that were willing to give and leveraged his network.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It sounded great, until her last comment: She told me that it was a really important program, because libraries are the heart of the community…well, in elementary schools at least. That may sound simple, like “my town, or my campus, or my organization.” Who’s the community? The first step: Identifying your community.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

And if you are looking for data to support a telecommuting policy, take a look at this compilation of research from Global Workplace Analytics. And for evidence linking self-care to a reduction in burnout, see this study on US medical students and this thesis on mental health professionals. A: Not that we know of.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

How have donations in the past created opportunities for today’s students that will help them succeed? It sounds easy to make a webpage where donors can contribute for #GivingTuesday—but what platform will you use to host it? Close your post with urgency: Why does this matter right here, right now ?

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Everyaction

MAY 16, 2018

In addition to their commitment to providing comprehensive mental health services to residents of Ocean County, OMHS also offers a unique educational offering in the form of Ocean Academy, a small therapeutic school that supports students who need mental health support in order to succeed academically.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. Now, three hundred bucks a year doesn't sound like a lot of money, right? It sounds pretty cheap to you and me. We've seen students, for example, take on the project of getting Fair Trade coffee into their dining halls.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served. ” Well, you know, it sounds like a good goal, right, but do I need to lose that?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Our members envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. I know it sounds cliché, but as Martin Luther King said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.". Britt Bravo: Why should people care about genocide?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

But the one universal global thing is that data, data is just bad. That sounds bloody awful, doesn’t it? How many of you feel like that, or cringe when your executive director goes, “Let’s just ask some of these high school students that come to after school?” So this webinar is absolutely critical.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

We also work with groups like Oxfam and their Make Trade Fair Campaign , Doctors without Borders , the ACLU , Global Exchange and this summer will be collaborating with Witness , Greenpeace , the NRDC and others. I lead my students when I teach. And I am always looking and thinking about where we need to go next.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2021

We’ve endured a global pandemic. One of our long-time students wrote in: “We’re 74% of the way to our revenue budget and we’re not quite halfway through our fiscal year and are up 322% year over year (last year we raised almost $770K) How are we doing it? She spoke with conviction and sounded like she knew what she was talking about.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Stones Worldview Tango - Richard Cirille Empowering learning for students world wide. Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness. Looking for a business process/model for moving tech to each department. Using scalable technology to access leadership and learning a minimal cost.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

It’s a set of new guidelines that provides sound strategies for establishing nonprofit brands on Facebook, from utilizing cover and profile photos effectively, to evaluating how to tell your story and represent your organizations’ unique voice and mission. She is now TechSoup Global's content curator. Social Media.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

Sarah: No, I think that sounds really great. So one of them is someone asked about engaging young people that are not yet young professionals, so like if you’re working with high school students or college students. And Z for zoomer. I like that. So our gen Z are. it’s a good idea if you could do.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. What do you enjoy the most about your work with Amnesty International and Never Again?

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Computer science is one of the most popular majors at Stanford—it’s taken by nearly 20 percent of the student body. But in recent years, this trio of professors noticed their students were often attracted to the field mainly because of its financial rewards. And I think a simple example of that is our road system.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

How do we stop violence and how do we eradicate poverty in our communities, and uplift people, and how do we also do that in a way that respects the environment, that looks at innovation, and that addresses issues like global warming and peak-oil and environmental racism? How do we build new visions and programs that serve everybody?

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