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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

Grants to HBCUs have deep, broad, and long-lasting impacts on society HBCU staff and student participants in the qualitative research all highlighted that HBCUs’ history and legacy are rooted in creating safe spaces for Black scholars. In addition to providing a top-tier education, HBCUs accept and acknowledge students’ identities.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

This blog aims to examine these challenges and offer all nonprofits leaders methods to increase diversity and BIPOC participation in their organizations. Some of these challenges include a lack of funding for schools, a lack of access to high-quality educational resources and opportunities, and a lack of support for students and teachers.

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How to Keep Donors Engaged Using Emerging Technologies

Cloud 4 Good

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. To date, Pencils of Promise has built nearly 600 schools worldwide, and over 130K students are currently enrolled in those schools.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Check out more highlights from the Festival program here.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learning analytics is an emergent field of research that aspires to use data analysis to inform decisions made on every area education, from understanding student data to build better pedagogies, target at-risk students, and to assess whether programs designed have been effective and should be sustained.

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites. These virtual libraries are meant to support different aspects of student learning, making the aggregate and perhaps distributed content of a physical library more accessible. " Today, information is published from the 'bottom up' or from user-generated sources.