Neon CRM

JUNE 9, 2023

For example, consider an organization for educators focused on improving literacy rates. One proven method of addressing literacy—especially in children with learning challenges—is approaching reading as a science. Membership has an impact because it can help uplift other educators and improve overall literacy rates.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Byte Back is a nonprofit computer skills and career training center located in Washington, D.C. Glenn taught himself the skills needed to maintain and repair computers. They achieve this through transformative digital advocacy, digital literacy, and tech certification training. They simply had to prove they could fix a computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

One of the themes that came up is the gap in skills of citizens and nonprofits and the use of data. It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Defining Digital Literacy. But first, what exactly is digital literacy?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. Route 66 Route 66, our online platform for teaching reading, has officially launched thanks to support from the Peery Foundation. and James L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. He suggests these goals: 1.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. Where would they have learned about money management? credit card or budget their money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Last week I was got to work on a week-long service trip in Cusco, Peru as part of Wake: Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange #Tech2empower program where womwn in who work in technology volunteer to share their professional skills and knowledge with women-run business owners. As I learned later, it was to make a connection.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

.” This week, the Poynter Institute Katie Hawkins-Gaar and Ren LaForme joined forces to host a series called #40 Better Hours , a project to improve newsroom culture by looking at things that cause stress like workflow and communication and teaching journalist skills to combat information overload, part of a technology wellness routine.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2014

Bringing mobile devices into adult library programs can be an excellent way to promote library e-media and teach digital literacy skills. Eastern) for Adult Library Programs Gone Mobile , where you can learn how libraries can help meet the need and demand for mobile-device assistance through creative programming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Anyone and everyone, even beginners, can learn how to analyze their own data in Excel. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy. My favorite housekeeping skill is freezing panes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Emily at Emily's World offers her thoughts about "Integrating Web Sites into Teaching." Starting way back in 1995-96 when the web was just starting to explode with content, I focused a lot on searching skills, information literacy skills, how to organize and retrieve your finds, etc.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Although the challenges differ by region, the outcome is the same everywhere: young people are simply not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's workforce. Through the program, the native San Franciscan learned valuable business skills, received tech training, and made job connections.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

You need to test and learn quickly in order to move forward with confidence. Google Analytics can help you learn what donors care about via the web pages they land on, articles they open, and links they click. What new things might make sense given what you’ve learned and are continuing to see as trends? .

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

In the broadest sense, employee retention depends on a combination of factors, including work-life balance, benefits, compensation, development and learning opportunities , and more. Offer professional development and continued learning opportunities. Ready to learn more? Make sure to recognize employee performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2005

I've been researching typing skills curriculum for young children for an after-school ctc. I found some excellent lesson plans where the emphasis is on integrating typing into learning, early literacy skills. The teaching aids or props are lots of fun too! One example had a family - the clicker family.

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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. Whether you're educating yourself or your staff, or teaching others technical skills, we can help you stay up-to-date on the latest technology, fundraising tools, or development strategies. September's here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. The MacArthur Foundation announced that it will be funding a five-year $50 million initiative, mostly for research, to try to understand how young people are using digital media and its impact learning.

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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. April 18, 2011 11:16 AM Laura Bush said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

For the past five years, I’ve been teaching social media workshops for nonprofits and lately doing deeper dives on the techniques of listening both for nonprofits and in my role as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation. Our session covered: Why listening offers value. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. The school has almost a dozen different social enterprises that provide access to these job skills. She's very sharp!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. The most important listening literacy skills are.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

During my first visit to the Nigerian capital of Abuja last April, I learned that a member of the NHRC who had been monitoring local elections had been beaten and unlawfully detained. The MacArthur Foundation provided key support for the project by not only financing our work, but also funding computer literacy training for NHRC staff.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Deloitte then came up with four design principles informed by millennials: Technology before/during/after learning programs enables people to connect. It''s important to equip them to learn leadership skills and hear what they are thinking. There''s no "one-size-fits-all" firm set of steps that should be followed.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

And so, we kind of scrambled to learn things like Zoom. And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers. Relying too heavily on technology means that those who lack the resources, language skills, and savvy to use technology to its full potential are left behind.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

In a country that generally prides itself on offering the opportunity for everyone to succeed, one in four children grow up without learning to read. And one in five, or 23 percent of the adult American population , is functionally illiterate or lacks basic skills past a fourth-grade reading level. Taking Education to New Heights.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

Gentle Carousel also has a literacy program called Reading Is Magic that brings the horses into schools, libraries, and at-risk youth programs. What Nonprofits Can Learn from Gentle Carousel. And if your image happens to go viral, there will be a whole lot of folks learning about your organization. Other Animals to Learn From.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. Photo by Rikomatic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

The past five years I have been teaching Spanish at an Elementary School and serve as the school???s I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. I will document what I have learned and hopefully inspire other language teacher to try their own blogs.??? s webmaster. The tools of Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

If the point of the Discovery Center is to teach students the facts of the Grenada invasion, it's reasonable to create a program in which there's a right and wrong answer about what happened in history. This time, the onscreen actors and educator don't say "good job" or reward the students for their desire to avoid invasion.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

If you want to learn a bit more about hosting a silent auction, check out our blog post on the eight steps to running a stellar event. Painting or Cooking Class Live streaming tools make it easy to hold online classes in real time, allowing participants to learn from the knowledge of your supporters in exchange for a small fee.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

To learn more about Neon Fundraise, click the button below. Attendees can participate in planting sessions, learn about gardening techniques, and contribute to the maintenance of community gardens. Educational events hosted by nonprofits are powerful tools for sharing knowledge, developing skills, and empowering communities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

I wrote this book in the hope that others will learn from my triumphs and failures. Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. Leaders who find new ways to communicate organizational goals and invest in building their colleagues through learning will have established an environment where trust can flourish.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

I wrote this book in the hope that others will learn from my triumphs and failures. Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. Leaders who find new ways to communicate organizational goals and invest in building their colleagues through learning will have established an environment where trust can flourish.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Offer skills-based volunteer opportunities for participants to enhance certain skills, especially tech-related ones. Remember to offer roles where your volunteers can learn new skills and engage with others, just like they can with in-person opportunities. Ask volunteers what they’d like to see.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. Interested? Alright you got me, I’m in. What’s next? b) Void States.

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