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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

We told the NHRC staff and the MacArthur Foundation, a long-time supporter of the Benetech Human Rights Program, that we would be happy to return for more training when the NHRC was ready. 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

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. Training in breeding is part of the program.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Defining Digital Literacy.

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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. Most people never receive any formal financial training. credit card or budget their money.

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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. She will share tips for instilling technology confidence in staff and providing user-driven training. Join us next Wednesday, July 30 at 11 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Internet safety can be a tricky subject to teach. essential skill to include in basic digital literacy instruction, but. determining what content to include and how to teach it can present many challenges. design curriculum and teach classes without a fear of becoming outdated. organizations. and up to date.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Their grantmaking aims to ensure that American public education prepares all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to fully participate in democracy and thrive in the global economy. They support strategic partners that focus on helping children succeed via a comprehensive approach to education. Kars4Kids Foundation.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Here are four tips we recommend for the rest of 2021 and beyond: Revisit your training and onboarding process. Revisit your training and onboarding process. You take them through the entire training and onboarding process consisting of one-on-one coaching and tons of documents and paperwork. Frightened by these statistics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

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. Don’t underestimate the power of high school statistics. Finally, ask for help.

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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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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. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

Skillsoft's Information Security Essentials online training can help your IT staff and end users implement security best practices. " If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum. Educate Your Constituents.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

" If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum. Over the last few years, TechSoup has been curating resources to help nonprofits and public libraries teach online security and privacy skills to their communities.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

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. It was there that she discovered her passion for teaching others: "When I was working with kids with autism or ADHD, something happened within me where I identified with their experiences.

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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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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Nicole related the experience and observations she had about millennials from five-day leadership trainings at Deloitte. Trainings need to be tailored to the learner not meet individual needs. It''s important to equip them to learn leadership skills and hear what they are thinking.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Veterans Organic Garden is a visionary job training and rehabilitation program for disabled veterans developed by Lovay Wallace-Singleton. The project provides paid internships and organic gardening job skills training for unemployed and low-income veterans, as well as rehabilitation therapy through gardening.

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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. These unreasonably adorable miniature horses go through a two-year training program to be therapy horses. But your organization is still doing amazing work that's worth a snapshot!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. Looking at how to be less of training but more on learning. Emphasis is on digital literacy. New learning environment puts games at the center.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Offer skills-based volunteer opportunities for participants to enhance certain skills, especially tech-related ones. Offer a valuable training process. Remember to offer roles where your volunteers can learn new skills and engage with others, just like they can with in-person opportunities.

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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 some of them had gardened before. So there's a pretty good amount in the Bay Area.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We place ourselves in the social justice work here in the Bay Area as a training center. We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. So I’m only 26.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Educational events hosted by nonprofits are powerful tools for sharing knowledge, developing skills, and empowering communities. Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training.

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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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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

This foundation is committed to expanding economic opportunities for women and girls through education, vocational training, and entrepreneurship with the goal of sustainable financial independence. Areas served: Texas-based organizations. Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: Wyoming.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This foundation is committed to expanding economic opportunities for women and girls through education, vocational training, and entrepreneurship with the goal of sustainable financial independence. Areas served: Texas-based organizations. Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: Wyoming.

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