Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. Donors could communicate with the students, and they thanked participants directly – building lasting relationships. The internet is not new.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

The benefits of learning more information specific to the nonprofit sector speak for themselves. Instead of having to search for sparse sources of information, we’re now left with the opposite issue—sifting through ample resources to find the most trustworthy and impactful information. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

His projection was that students were going to save more money on textbooks after three semesters of Flat World operations than investors had put into it. Not the typical SROI calculation, but the dramatic point was that Flat World is making impact the center piece of their foray into Open Educational Resources (OERs).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

For educational nonprofits, schools, and libraries, Raspberry Pi is very useful for teaching students about electronics, computing, and many other technical subjects for a price that's far less than a new computer. The Raspberry Pi was designed to help educators and students understand technology better. Power source.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Even back then, we included information about his service in the box of each Arkenstone Reader because we knew people would rather not have to scan a book before reading it! First, one of last year’s Migel Award winners, George Kerscher. And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. Derrick Jones. VP of IT, NAACP.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2009

Wikipedia is an open-source knowledge repository, which is fine, but one issue with open-source technologies continues to be quality control. If I were a teacher, I would be skeptical of any information sourced from there. To hear that Wikipedia has taken over the market is a little scary to me.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Software for creating wikis is easy to use and is available in both open-source and proprietary forms. If desired, different users can have different levels of control over sharing, editing, and removing information. Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s We think it?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s We think it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. Thanks for any information you can provide. They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. 4 admin 08.05.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Personal Information Technology Workshop ??? at 14 different universities in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap with more than 1700 students participating. This team has been working on a voluntary basis to conduct 14 workshops called ??? tools) can make their study, work, and life easier. tools) can make their study, work, and life easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. What are the tactics for supporting online open source communities? What is the gensis of an open source community?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

In 2015, every school, college and fundraising unit across the university participated in Giving Blueday, along with 117 student groups. They invited a range of students, faculty, staff, and alums with large Twitter followings and asked if they’d be willing to advocate for the university online. Culture of Continuous Improvement.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Take, for instance, Unlocked Labs , a nonprofit that employs a team of incarcerated software developers who are building nonprofit, open-source technology to make high-quality education more accessible to incarcerated individuals. The reality is students learn better when they can learn together,” Devezin says.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Here's the background information from the press release. s Social Media Desk, Independence Year Foundation, The Center for Community Change, Student PIRGs, PBS, Video the Vote, Election Suppression Wiki, Women Donors Network, and Demos.  Download and use the iPhone app (coming soon). Please participate ??? s go and ???tweet???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

s democracy - it was just about showing the beauty of her country, sharing her experiences in school, and learning from her peers and fellow students. DeeDee is also part of the team that brings Personal Information Technology Workshops to university campuses around the country, sharing tips about how to take advantage of the web.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

In addition, we hope to supply the Examiner additional information that may be relevant in reviewing this and similar applications in the future. We sincerely hope that this letter supplied information that the Examiner may also find useful in future consideration of trademarks relating to the term “social enterprise.”

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Gamelike branching simulations can be authored in a sweet graphic user interface using Branchtrack , or you can delve into advanced functionality and extensibility with the venerable open-source OpenLabyrinth, which now offers a new version. We thought what was revolutionary about the MOOC was the Massiveness and the Openness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Our users depend on us to get things right, whether it’s protecting human rights information from attackers, ensuring a student has an accessible textbook in time for school, or guiding an environmentalist in the best ways to deploy their limited resources. Open Over Proprietary We’re an open source organization.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Unfortunately, safeguarding human rights information can’t be distinguished from piracy, if the contents are encrypted. Wonderful stuff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. So what is it about a teacher-student relationship that we can learn from to provide really good technical support? Second, Empowerment. Fourth, Solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Unfortunately, safeguarding human rights information can’t be distinguished from piracy, if the contents are encrypted. Wonderful stuff.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The Department of State should develop a Young Diplomats Program which would provide students with the opportunity to advance their understanding of the core topics and issues relevant to the foreign service. The program would run for the entire academic school year and rely on long-term engagement with students. Vote for this Idea].

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether video, animation, photos, or audio, most course authoring software allows you to add a wide range of elements to your courses to convey information clearly and interestingly. A perpetual license costs $1299 and student teachers can access the solution for $399. These elements make it easy to add interest for your learners.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. They created a data warehouse that tracked not only student progress in school, but progress from cradle to career.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

For more information about coworking, read the Coworking Community Blog , check out the Coworking wiki, join the Coworking Google Group , watch this short video , and see photos of coworking spaces in the BusinessWeek article, Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle. So anyway, that's kind of where coworking came from.

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