TechImpact

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Of the students that are accepted into the ITWorks program: 100% of students work an internship upon graduation. 100% of students earn the Cisco IT Essential Professional Certification. Of the students that are accepted into the ITWorks program: 100% of students work an internship upon graduation. Donate this.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Our students are unemployed or underemployed. Here’s how your generous tax-deductible contribution can go directly to work, helping those students to succeed: $50 purchases the tools a student needs for the course. 160 ensures one student can complete the A+ certification. He has since been promoted. Donate this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2006

Via Snazzzz 's post in live journal comes the story of the $3 laptop. Inspired by MIT's $100 laptop project, they've been working on their own educational laptop project and delivered their first working model to Saron, a banking and finance student living in a small village near Prek Eng. They had it fixed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. Rather than just talk about the campaign, students has to participate.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. Dear Ellen, Your gift could not have come at a better time to guarantee a seat in our program to a deserving student! Photo or video of how their gift is being used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

Congrats to Megha Bhagat , Winner of HP Laptop/Printer Bundle Contest that I ran on my blog last month. I am a lawyer by profession and presently a student of human rights law in my masters at India. LLM student, NLSIU, Bangalore(Human Rights), India. Her blog is here. Megha Bhagat. meghabhagat@nls.ac.in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. So, the Sharing Foundation has continued to use our method of getting donated laptops in the US, refurbishing them, and getting them to Cambodia. DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. I blogged it and was initially very excited! Tharum was disappointed too.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

A lengthy article in the Wall Street Journal highlights the effect that the One Laptop per Child Initiative has had on the pc industry. The result is that low-cost laptops are being sold to schools in many developing countries today, but surprisingly few are OLPC units.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. Currently there are over 700 students at the home, which runs exclusively on donations provided by philanthropic public and financial institutions. Photo: Ramakrishna Mission Students Home.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

For example, you might explain that a $100 gift can purchase five new coding workbooks for your after-school program, and a $500 gift can buy a new laptop for a student. This is an effective strategy to use on your online donation form. Ask based on a range of giving related to their current giving level.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

In 2005 Facebook was only open to college students and professors, Twitter didn’t exist, and the iPhone was still in concept mode. The Internet was primarily a desktop PC or laptop experience and reading news and sending and receiving email accounted for the majority of time spent online.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." the laptop]. A Sickening Discovery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 20, 2009

Is the Internet Stupefying Students?: "By By the professor’s rule, students in the English classes of Dr. Mark Bauerlein at Emory University must take notes by hand. Laptops must be turned off, he says, to ensure students focus on what’s happening in the room, rather than on what’s floating around cyberspace.“In

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." the laptop]. A Sickening Discovery.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. Currently there are over 700 students at the home, which runs exclusively on donations provided by philanthropic public and financial institutions. Photo: Ramakrishna Mission Students Home.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 15, 2008

In his article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy titled “ Top 10 Threats to Computer Systems Include Professors and Students ,&# Jeffrey Young says. They want to nab the identities of students and professors to go on shopping sprees with forged credit cards. (No 9: Cellphones (&# harder to secure than laptops or desktops&# ). #8:

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The Santa Barbara Independent Tech Mogul Brings Laptops to Kellogg Kids: "D.J. Perry’s third-grade class at Kellogg Elementary School in Goleta buzzed with excitement on Friday, December 5, as students clicked away on their new XO-brand laptops.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For example, if your photo and accompanying story show a young person in your program delivering groceries to an older person, go with, “Older people count on our students to bring their groceries.” Mary fell in love with Nancy Drew books as a child and is excited to see her students improve their reading skills. I sure don’t!)

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." the laptop]. A Sickening Discovery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Broke and living in community housing, I came home one evening to find my room burgled, my laptop and cash savings gone. By luck, I was introduced by my roommate’s father’s friend’s colleague to a scholarship program that supported low-income students of color complete college (networks have a way of being pretty darn powerful).

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

From accountants to college students, from administrators working in construction offices to legal professionals, many are considering new career directions to gain more meaningful work and to serve the greater good in their communities. Q: What kind of folks have asked about becoming a grant writer?

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AFP Blog

JULY 30, 2008

Intel, Portugal agree to deal for 500,000 laptops: "Intel Corp.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 18, 2018

Millennials, like most people, love putting stickers on their water bottles, laptops, bike helmets and it’s always nice to receive something for making a contribution. Between rising rents and student loans, millennials’ budgets can be tight, but they are usually happy to give their time. Swag offers. Volunteer opportunities.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

And they're doing this using the programming language Java on their laptops. It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley. Students bring their own laptops to a public library, and receive instruction from high school-aged instructors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Our statistical analysis is being used as evidence for an upcoming trial charging former Police Chief Colonel Hector Bol de la Cruz with crimes related to the disappearance of a trade union and student leader in 1984. On my first day in Guatemala, a freak hard-drive meltdown relegated my work laptop to a paperweight.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. Refurbishers in emerging markets will start to see a higher supply of laptops for refurbishment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2008

Yesterday after flying for four hours and having serious anxiety about not seeing the numbers, I pitched the young lady sitting next to me, a Harvard student. We got off the plane, I opened up my laptop with wifi and she donated. I said thank you and then found this awesome post from Chris Brogan. Thank you!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

At the time, we had a very limited selection of offers, comprised only of desktops and laptops, most of which had Pentium III processors (you get the idea). Computers For Youth will supply educational resources for low-income students. In the first couple of years we distributed around 100 PCs per month. to scale up RCI in California.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Students are among the most technology savvy people I know. And increasingly this includes High School students down the street. 7) Partner with a corporation to get their laptops and other equipment coming off lease. Many corporations lease their PCs and laptops, often over two years with a $1 buy-out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. He attended the Cambodian Blogging Summit and received the digital audio recorder to create language lessons for his students (offline podcasts!)

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Digital Education: With 91% of students around the world and 32 million in the US alone currently out of school, companies are stepping up to address the learning gap that is intensified by the inequities of the digital divide. Many companies are addressing the lack of internet and computer access through their CSR responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

There were also children's t-shirts contributed, so I distributed these to the kids in the orphanage and some of the extra t-shirts to the college students being sponsored by the Sharing Foundation. The college students enjoyed the t-shirts too even though they were not aware of the companies. Click To Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment.

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