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February Cause Awareness: Black History Month

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In September of 1915, he founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) before establishing the second week of February as Negro History Week in 1925. Every year, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History designates a theme for Black History Month. Donate to support their mission here.

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Defining Digital Literacy.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. CityOptions is an environmental initiative to help local governments—particularly small and mid-sized ones—plan and execute effective sustainability initiatives.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

government initiative that aims to bring accessible broadband access to residents of low-income housing throughout the U.S. "There are many groups, locally and nationally, making real impact around digital skills and access to devices. digital divide than anything since the invention of the Internet.

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Bridging the Digital Divide? Tell Us About It!

Tech Soup

We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. A specific example of the positive impact it made in the life of a constituent, in the area of digital inclusion. Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial. Interesting proposition. b) Void States. a) In General.

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Bridging the Digital Divide? Tell Us About It!

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We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. A specific example of the positive impact it made in the life of a constituent, in the area of digital inclusion. Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial. Below are our official Terms and Conditions. b) Void States.

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