Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. Among all developing countries, Vietnam has one of the lowest unemployment rates. It is proper etiquette in Vietnam to politely ask your age, nationality, and marital status on the first meeting. They have a 1.7-percent

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. BUILD actively works to increase high school graduation rates for at-risk youth with a four-year entrepreneurial program. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

The school system had one of the worst high school dropout rates in the nation and a high level of crime per capita. She saw a tremendous need for literacy and outreach services, particularly to the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, where the aftereffects of Katrina were the most devastating. Libraries as Evacuee Resource Centers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

Despite the good effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the unemployment rate for disabled American adults is 72% , about three times that of non-disabled people. The marriage of refurbishment and accessible technology started in the early 1980s with the founding of the National Cristina Foundation. In the U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. We can tap into local knowledge because our reports are coming from the source.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. World Food Program USA: Rani’s Story.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science. It was not unusual for a person to pull out a document showing national dropout rates for their country in the middle of a cocktail party. How are we addressing this woman?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

In 2010, SAF’s “Drill Down for Safety” project mobilized nearly 800,000 people with national texting drills! We are Rape Crisis and Victim Services, Employment (80% placement rate for women and men), Adult Literacy, general counseling for women and families, legal clinic…and on and on. We’re the Safe America Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. The accelerating rate of technological change suggests that we have no way of determining what comes next on a ten-, twenty-, or fifty-year timescale.

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