Neon CRM

MAY 3, 2023

Donor recognition is one of the most under-appreciated methods of donor engagement. There are many traditional methods of donor recognition that you should continue to incorporate into your stewardship strategy. All your supporters, from your one-time givers to your major donors, should feel appreciated by your organization.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Privacy has always been an important topic in digital literacy. Scott Pinkelman, digital literacy innovation specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia , recently presented on this important topic at the Digital Shift online conference. What methods do you use to teach privacy and surveillance issues to new Internet users?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2011

Last quarter Betsy Beaumon presented the future of our Literacy program including Bookshare. The centerpiece of our Benetech board of directors meeting this week was the Benetech Human Rights Program. Each of our quarterly meetings tends to focus on big strategic issues facing Benetech. But this week, human rights was front and center.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

If you haven’t done so already, update your procedures to collect contact methods and donor information that will facilitate virtual fundraising. How can you get an ROI in the digital literacy skills we are all developing?”. The bottom line: if you can’t reach your donors, you can’t solicit them. don’t wait for the crisis to be over.”.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. For every four monthly gifts of $25, we are able to enroll one student from that list into our Learning for Literacy program – empowering them with vital knowledge and skills to change their futures!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested. Data Scientist” is a newly defined job that requires being part data geek, analyst, communicator, visualizer, storyteller, and interpreter.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Effectively engage adult learners and utilize basic adult education methods. Digital Literacy Resources. Microsoft Digital Literacy has everything from basic computer courses (such as how to operate a computer) to a course on building your first app. Incorporate best practices for conducting trainings in a variety of formats.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

This fair use victory is crucial not only for our present work, but also for our social mission at large and for the future of our work under our Global Literacy program. In particular, we’re excited about the promise that the appeal court’s ruling holds for the expansion of our efforts to improve access to images.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

One guy energetically pitched me on a new method for cattle production. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries' After the presentations all the entrepreneurs in audience set upon each other with their own funding pitches. Image: City of Kansas City.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Of course, this is not a strategy that can be supported by Excel spreadsheets or simpler tracking methods. Also involved in your organization is her daughter Nina, a 22-year-old literacy coach who volunteers her time for many of your projects focused on children.

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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. I know what you’re thinking—this is beginning to look complicated. The answer is simple.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 11, 2016

Authors Steve Zimmerman and Jeanne Bell have introduced a proven method for change management called matrix mapping. An example of this comes from a 100-year-old social service agency that had offered mental health counseling for their constituents among several other programs including financial literacy, job training and a daycare program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

One 21 century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. A Simple Method For Getting Started. Improve staff expertise: It used to be that we could be trained to do our work and we wouldn’t need to update and synthesize new information on a daily basis. That’s less true.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

The MacArthur Foundation provided key support for the project by not only financing our work, but also funding computer literacy training for NHRC staff. Then we spent the next five days mapping how human rights information flows into the organization and how Martus could be used to track that data using efficient and secure methods.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Matthew had more than 40 volunteers to plan shifts for, along with a method for encouraging participants to reflect on and share their experiences the next day. Sharing the Experience. Although the community couldn't visit their usual haunts on techsoup.org, they could still keep up with TechSoup online. TechSoup Sweat Equity.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can actually be a method to tackle this problem. One 21st century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. That’s less true. A good curator can appreciate content that is not, at first glance, related to their subject.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Benetech melds the mission and heart of social activism with the powerful methods and tools of the technology community. During Arkenstone's 11 years, Benetech sold literacy products under the Arkenstone brand in more than a dozen languages to over 35,000 individuals in 60 countries. Matilda Ziegler Foundation.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2015

There are tried and true methods for getting to the top of the results list, but they rely on proper execution, and this is where things get tricky. A search engine doesn't know that "high-quality, evidence-based early childhood literacy interventions" are the same thing as "helping children learn to read."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

New Heights, by promoting literacy through a wide range of programs, has produced radical results. The organization also uses GoToMeeting for collaboration with people from across the country, who use this tool to work together on education issues in their own communities, spreading the New Heights education method beyond the Ohio area.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

American Literacy is Iffy. Peters, principal of Beverly Hills High School, announced today that the entire school faculty will travel to Sacramento next Thursday for a colloquium in new teaching methods. They’re either looking for something specific or hoping to stumble upon something unexpected and exciting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

New set of research methods for this. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Government funders have a congressional mandate for evaluation of anything that is funded and to use quantitative methods and research analysis. How do those learning environments impact institutions? What do libraries look like in the future? Two years ago.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

It was the right medium, but the wrong method. Data literacy will become one of the most important skills for a nonprofit professional to possess. SMS text-to-give in the United States experienced a major spike following the Haiti Earthquake in 2010 but has never achieved inflated expectations. Time is up. Can you read a chart?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. The poetry program uses poetry books recommended by ReadBoston , one of the first citywide programs designed to help children learn to read.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Those who envision what could be possible by having Benetech apply innovative technology to the areas of Literacy, Human Rights, and the Environment, and who enable us to explore new opportunities for creating social good. As a nonprofit, different types of funding fuel our work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We found that groups working on documentation lack the necessary tools and methods to record and secure information in a systematic and consistent way. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding. Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

To host a successful fundraising event, whether it’s virtual or in-person, you’ll need a reliable method of registering attendees. This is an example of a peer-to-peer event page by BEACON for Adult Literacy.]. Text-to-give is a carrier-based mobile fundraising method that charges the donor a predetermined amount to their phone bill.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training. Let’s run through eight types of educational events that nonprofits can use to serve their local community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

In focusing on those four systems, we recognize institutionally how critical it is to merge the discussion about these various systems and political education to organizing, and how organizing is one method to initiate change for a more just world. Their method. Their culture. Their practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

Creativity: How do you keep creative and generate new ideas, both individually and working within an organization. It is so easy to just do the same old thing all the time, but there is some discomfort in creating something new. I want to explore the methods and techniques for optimizing creativity and applying it your work.

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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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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Do you love ladies in literature? Sheroes in the Sciences. Gertrude B. She won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988. Marie Curie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

I think this is connected to what Rheingold's Attention Literacy piece, but I have go back and read it again. This is one theme Allison Fine and I are writing about in our book ) In the 21st century we now have two oppositional methods of organization: the hierarchy and the cloud. For each of us, connectivity carries a high price.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

Facilitating global literacy about Big Data is viewed as important for the media, civic hackers, and civil society. He also says that the fact that Big Data suffers from extreme sample bias is usually true of any dataset collected using non-random sampling methods. Their network will help with trouble shooting and data training.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

If it’s not open to the public, I don’t care if it’s a book or a fossil—the methods of interpretation and audience engagement are fundamentally different. There was lots of discussion about the relevance of our assets and interpretative methods. How can our expertise and assets be applied towards new ends?

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