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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

The Lisa Libraries. The Emeril Lagasse Foundation provides grants related to nutrition and culinary education, life skills development, childhood hunger, and arts education. The Lisa Libraries. The Barney Family Foundation. Change Happens Foundation. Guitar Center. The Harry Chapin Foundation. Johnson Scholarship Foundation.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Think of the freedom that can be promoted by greater sharing of the benefits of science and technology: freedom from hunger, from thirst, from illness, freedom from ignorance, illiteracy, from lack of education, freedom from human rights abuses, from tyranny.

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Mobile Tech Connects Kids to Summer Meals

Tech Soup

Referrers include staff from nonprofits, community centers, public libraries, and other organizations that work with youth during the summer months. The data comes from WhyHunger , a nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger. " How Libraries Can Use Range. Many larger public library systems (such as Washington, D.C.

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Outstanding Offers and New Products of 2014 (Bonus: Crossword Puzzle!)

Tech Soup

fast; contents of a library (accounting) Answer. ” ( mobile app for hunger from TechSoup’s Caravan Studios ) Answer. Libraries can collect fees on them or lend them out. all set or prepared; speak ( conferencing ) Answer. opposite of a for profit; not difficult ( donor management ) Answer. VIEW SOLVED PUZZLE.

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Foot Traffic Philanthropy: Location Based Mobile Application - CauseWorld

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The causes that are supported are listed here a good mix of wildlife conservation, hunger, and others. There is a scaling system for Karma points - for example supporting a classroom is five points while sending a book to a library in a developing country is 100. And, of course, you get badges for various activities.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The case went through the European court system and he won the case. An App To End World Hunger? How this will move the needle on world hunger? That’d definitely put a dent in the $143 billion price tag that the UN Development Program estimates it would take to end world hunger. Jason Shim is not a famous guy.

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Giving the Gift of Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Through her contribution we were able to give our most active volunteers (those who have directly contributed to adding 150 books or more to the library) a chance to request a book -- any book that they wanted to see in Bookshare’s Collection. Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque 30. Twin of Ice 25. Any books by Michael Feldman 26.

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