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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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They achieve this through transformative digital advocacy, digital literacy, and tech certification training. Students build a solid foundation to learn more in a professional track. Community partners can host classes at their computer labs, collaborate on events or fundraisers, teach workshops, and share or develop resources.

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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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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

In fact, you’ve most likely heard every industry leader teach this until they’re blue in the face! Giving plans offer donors the option to donate on a recurring basis to support your cause. Leap for Literacy. Leap for Literacy added a video about their organization at the top of their landing page. That’s a wrap!

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

A lively discussion took place regarding how to prepare young people for the jobs of the 21 st century and what nonprofits and corporations can do to support the initiative. Through the program, the native San Franciscan learned valuable business skills, received tech training, and made job connections. Libraries Building Bridges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

If you make media with your kids, believe me you'll learn. Making media together is another way to teach your children about various causes. Since her parents work in the Sharing Foundation's farm program, she attended the Foundation's Khmer Literacy School which helped her enter the local village school.

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

If your organization works with sensitive data, Box also provides the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to support your organization's compliance with HIPAA. To learn more, read Box's summary of how nonprofits can use its services. Learn more about each of these organizations on the Box blog. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

You can learn more about the m and how they use technology to further their missions on TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map (LIM). Love Without Boundaries addres ses this growing need by providing educational support, medical care , and foster homes for neglected children. million books per year.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

That's why we've been advocates and supporters for the Sharing Foundation for the past eight years. Our project on Global Giving focuses on literacy which is key to education and jobs for poor children. The literacy school runs three sessions a day for 130 children of Roteang village???s It's a route out of poverty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment. Route 66 Literacy Our newest project is Route 66 Literacy, and it includes a demonstration site that anyone can try out.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

The study reveals that current leaders in the local nonprofit sector believe the skills most needed in the nonprofit workforce are financial literacy, communication (verbal and writing skills), knowledge of laws pertaining to the nonprofit sector, information technology, volunteer management, and donor cultivation. All You Need is Love.

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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. Second, they focus on project based learning, where students use the computers to complete projects. She's very sharp!

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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. " Use Images That Support Your Mission. The Gentle Carousel Facebook page has more than 202,500 likes. and 2x, respectively."

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The Cause: Room To Read a not-for-profit organization that transforms the lives of millions of children by focusing on literacy. What can we learn about the right formula from previous efforts? Work with the charity/cause so you can leverage their most passionate supporters. x (Total Retweets). 11 cents = $32.78 twitter.

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

We at TechSoup are proud to support the important work of nonprofits around the world. 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. Interested? Alright you got me, I’m in. Interesting proposition. a) Non-Discrimination.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

We at TechSoup are proud to support the important work of nonprofits around the world. 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. That sounds great. How do you plan on doing that? a) Non-Discrimination.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Auctions Auctions are a major source of funding for a lot of nonprofit associations because they engage the competitive spirits of supporters. 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. Using a theme can make this a little easier.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. And then it also helps them succeed in school in other ways.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Kevin and the SEA today launched an Initiative To Protect the Meaning of Social Enterprise , supporting the efforts of our peers with Social Enterprise UK in their "NotInOurName" campaign. Here is the letter I'm sending to the USPTO supporting their initial recommendation against granting this registered trademark in the U.S.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Remember to offer roles where your volunteers can learn new skills and engage with others, just like they can with in-person opportunities. Virtual advocacy opportunities — Teach volunteers to be strong advocates for your cause. Also, it’s important to keep in mind that every volunteer will have their preferred way of learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

One way is as a health and wellness aid because patients and their caretakers can easily share information and support one another. Apps and websites cannot replace the communities that have always connected and supported us, but they can help diverse and dispersed groups coordinate care in unprecedented ways.”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Here is a partial transcript from my interview with Viet-Ly: Viet-Ly: Streetside Stories is a nonprofit literacy arts program based in San Francisco and we work with the middle schools -- the public middle schools -- of the San Francisco Unified School District. Update: Viet-Ly was accepted into a teach credential program for this fall].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But how will you know the answer if you don’t set up a test and use measurement and data to help you answer it. This is called “data literacy” — setting up a hypothesis and a way to measure it – and analyzing the results and deciding how to improve. What we learned. To Promote or Not to Promote? (…and

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

At Common Sense Media , we believe that treating others’ information carefully, and teaching others to do the same, is a key factor in building and maintaining trust. This applies both in building friendships and in building business, and the learning starts right at home and in the classroom.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

He spoke about FCC's expansive efforts to increase "digital literacy" for both individuals and small businesses. However, Simmons highlighted one area where Missouri farmers might benefit from government support. The WEB Dubois Center is active in supporting technology at 20 sites within the Swope Corridor Renaissance area.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Libraries’ direct service programs, from voter registration to computer classes, are focused on supporting citizens’ needs broadly, whereas museums’ direct services (programs, outreach) are focused on spreading museum content. Museums provide the information that we deem useful or interesting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally. The Global Fund tries to measure those results, not so much by our own standards, but by the standards that the groups that we support set for themselves.

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