Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Not only are they incredibly knowledgeable, but they were working remotely immediately as soon as the crisis hit. Every chat, call, or email is responded to almost immediately, with courtesy, professionalism, and best of all, knowledgeable solutions.”. Pro Tip: Take advantage of the free training that DonorPerfect offers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

It has been amazing to see the impact financial literacy can have on a person, and just how crucial financial literacy is on the future of our young people. By the end of the class, they were empowered; they were knowledgeable about what to do with their money, and they no longer feared financial responsibility. Get another!

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Carnegie Corporation of New York—established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding—is one of America’s oldest grantmaking foundations. They support strategic partners that focus on helping children succeed via a comprehensive approach to education. Kars4Kids Foundation.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Having first-hand knowledge of the barriers that keep girls in their area from going to school makes our partners well-suited to overcome those obstacles, take action, and advance education opportunities for the girls in their community. The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Benetech’s partnerships in literacy, human rights and environmental conservation are matching the creativity of the high-tech sector with the efforts of grassroots leaders around the world. Benetech seeks to empower its managers with knowledge, authority and responsibility, and encourages them to use their judgment and expertise.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2014

People's main concerns were resource expenditure, including staff and volunteer training. The ability to impart knowledge clearly and easily was also an important requirement. Idealware's curated resources on training your staff online. Assistive Technology Industry Association links. NTEN series on visual content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

The book covers five digital literacies – each starting with an illustration by Anthony Weeks that graphically communicates the key points. Like meditation, mindful use of social media begins with noticing when your attention has wandered, and then gently bringing it back to focus on your highest priority – like training a puppy.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Youth in the program work at local nonprofits, but program organizers know that to truly achieve their goal of reducing youth unemployment, participants need additional support and training. How did these groups come together?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2017

Digital Strategy is my passion, but less from the perspective of technology implementation and more from the perspective of embedding digital knowledge and literacy throughout an organization. Creating a culture of digital literacy. We eliminated our training and professional development budget during the last round of cuts.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Nonprofit Management. Denver Nonprofit Institute.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. We too dersire more instruction on financial literacy.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

For those struggling to find the time or knowledge to get started, building out a lightweight framework can help combat both those obstacles. A few questions you might consider asking include: When we onboard a new team member, do we train them on how to find or access our data and where to go/who to speak with about data?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

" Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. Digital citizenship: In the final stage, communities can use these tools and knowledge to work with governments and affect policy.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, education is essential to keep knowledge and skills up to date. And, organizations that provide workforce and job skills training can share easyLearning courses with constituents. Check out guides to available online tools for training staff. September's here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Find your peers and share knowledge." Documentation of your project is important and get it disseminated so other people can benefit from your knowledge. Technology literacy is important and in order gain literacy you need get people to put fingers to keyboard. You need your peers. You need a network. Consortium.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

Many of these organizations operate loan programs as well as assessment and training to use the devices. The software applications WordQ + SpeakQ provide writing assistance and speech recognition help for people with disabilities, new language learners, and those who are learning literacy. How Accessible Technology Works.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened. Today, she is using technology to help fellow trafficking victims. That’s just the beginning.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

In addition to providing direct support to local nonprofits, LIN also serves as a vehicle through which donors can effectively contribute their knowledge, energy, and resources to support these nonprofits. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I facilitated online forums, provided technical support the 500 members, and training. While in the early early 1990's I was helping people figure out which dipswitches on their modem to push or write and send email using PINE, this later morphed into helping people learn how to build web pages or develop web literacy skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Cristi Hegranes: My name is Cristi Hegranes and I am the President and Founder of The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World which is an international nonprofit organization that was founded in order to train women in developing countries to become investigative reporters to report their own news. We are pushing an envelope there.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2007

Or even simpler: what if the goal was to work together to advance knowledge, science, and human good? Serious games now are viewed as “resources” (for education, training, instruction, simulation) or “platforms” (for messages, persuasion). Jane McGonigal wants to make it happen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Well in San Francisco, people are pretty lucky because there is a good amount of training and resources out here: there's a compost educator gardening training that you can do. So you could actually learn, it's one of the few non-profits that trains people in how to teach others about gardening and composting.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Educational events hosted by nonprofits are powerful tools for sharing knowledge, developing skills, and empowering communities. Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 6, 2012

One of the resources I have been most impressed with is the " Technology Literacy Benchmarks For Nonprofit Organizations ," created by NPower. Many of the best nonprofit technology resources are provided by other nonprofit organizations with the express mission of bringing the nonprofit sector out of technological obscurity.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if I provide 10 English as a second language or 10 computer literacy programs a year for 10 people, let’s just say that’s 100 pieces of content, that’s service. So earlier I mentioned maybe a parent who took English as a second language classes or maybe they got their GED or they took those computer literacy programs.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2023

Knowledge: Ensure you have the right skills and capabilities lined up to achieve the goals of your data strategy. Solidifying your data strategy is like coming in with a strong training plan. Remember to think of data as a team sport – people with different positions and skills have to work together toward a shared goal.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

A new Global Open Data Initiative has been launched through a partnership with the Web Foundation, Sunlight Foundation, Open Institute and Open Knowledge Foundation. Their network will help with trouble shooting and data training. Announcing the Global Open Data Initiative (GODI).

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

For All. -- is all about digital inclusion, digital literacy, and working to close the many digital divides we face in our global society. We hope OneWEbDay can change that and help to build a global constituency of people who care about the health of our 21st century communications environment. This year's theme -- One Web.

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