Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2022

8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. Fueled by a strong passion for the Internet, Heather spends her days (and some nights) helping nonprofits, charities, and NGOs worldwide utilize the internet as a tool for social good. 10: World Lion Day — #WorldLionDay. 11: Indigenous People’s Day — #IndigenousDay.

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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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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

With analytics, the benefits sell themselves: Reducing manual work Optimizing processes Growing revenue Having consistent, trusted data Increasing engagement Driving your association’s mission For example, consider an association dedicated to promoting literacy. Consider the different departments in your association.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 17, 2022

Receiving this feedback will identify organizational trends and help you prioritize which tools are best for your association. Why this disconnect in data literacy? However, all changes in prioritizing technology and data literacy must begin at the top. Create a data-driven culture at your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Seth Godin has a post called " The Growing Productivity Divide " where he lists some basic digital literacy skills that incorporate social media tools. Digital or Internet literacy skills are nothing new - my first introduction was over ten years when Doug Johnson developed the Mankato Scale.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

But some general knowledge about financial literacy will bode well. Take advantage of National Literacy Month. Simply getting new members to understand how to read a finance statement is another first step to financial literacy for board members. Take advantage of National Literacy Month. Start at the recruitment stage.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. The Global NGO Technology Report is a biennial research project that seeks to gain a better understanding of how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide use web and email communications, online fundraising tools, social media, mobile technology, and productivity software.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. One major roadblock is the affordability of braille reading tools.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2021

It also helped us reframe what it means to have access to the tools that allow us to fully engage with the world around us. It flipped our reality on its head and forced us to completely reframe the most basic tasks, whether that meant purchasing groceries, doing homework, or seeing our friends.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo’s contributions related to the Benetech Global Literacy Program include: Overseeing the building of the tech infrastructure that has taken Bookshare from serving tens of thousands of members to over 300,000 members, with a rapidly growing collection of 280,000+ accessible ebooks.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

The recent release of ChatGPT, an incredibly potent example of the power of AI tools to mimic conversations and empathy, mental health providers have also been tempted to substitute bots for people. Lead with generative AI literacy : Increase your organization’s, including senior leadership’s AI literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I'm passionate about listening - the skills, tools, techniques, and how it translates to continuous improvement of strategy and understanding the value it provides to organization's mission. The most important listening literacy skills are. Or the Goolge Adwords Keyword tool. Reiteracy is Social Media Listening Literacy.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2011

How to Evaluate Your Digital Literacy Program Thursday, June 30, 11 a.m. highlight some reporting tools. computer-related programs, those who support digital literacy programs, or BTOP. (Broadband Technology Opportunity Program) and are busy creating and updating. their computer skills. This webinar is specifically developed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Michele Martin and Tony Karer have been blogging at the Work Literacy blog for several months now. Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

1 This study, Financial Literacy and Knowledge in the Nonprofit Sector (PDF) , "engaged a random sample of primarily human service nonprofits, as well as health, civic, environmental, arts, and education nonprofits." Sources: ^ [1] " Financial Literacy for the Long Term ," Philanthropy Matters, Vol. The Moody’s Foundation, 2011.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Tools – What tools do you have? What tools do you require? Data literacy – as analytics takes hold, everyone in your organization – from the front lines to the Board – will start to talk in common language and have a better understanding of how data impacts the entire organization. What limits you?

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For example, an output metric for a literacy program might be the number of books read by program participants. For example, a quality metric for a literacy program might be the number and length of activities. . Impact metrics can be powerful tools for nonprofits. Quality metrics assess how well you performed an action.

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Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

We also found nearly 20% of respondents aged 45-64 did not have checking accounts, revealing that our older clients needed more financial literacy programming to avoid slipping into poverty. CASL trains Change InSight partners to collect data directly from their client bases using the nationally recognized PRAPARE screening tool.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. We must help ensure that every report of abuse is a tool for justice. You are the leader we are looking for if you see the combination of social good and businesslike management as the answer to pressing problems throughout the world.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.” Undoubtedly, the tools we use to shape the world end up shaping us.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 9, 2022

There are only so many homes that can be built, but when we’re able to help prepare people for homeownership through education, financial literacy, and sound advice, we can help even more.”. The Challenge. Chris knew there had to be an option for live scoring and easy registration for golf tournaments.

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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. with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities. and James L.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 24, 2023

Participants track the number of pages they’ve read or books they’ve completed on a leaderboard to support literacy and education. 58% of participants who participated in the activity-tracking portion of the event successfully raised funds compared to 31% of those who did not use the activity-tracking tool.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Whole Whale has been building AI prompts into custom tools for clients since Q1 of 2022 and we’ve learned a lot about what makes a good vs generic prompt. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me Build a tool for your audience that helps with a task. Build large training guides on a given topic. Build out code (see the bottom).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. With these tools, our goal is to make the defenders of human rights stronger in their fight against injustice and abuse. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Outlook) and video conferencing platforms, use a spreadsheet, create slides, and use tools that are specific to your organization, such as a timekeeping system or an expense reporting system. If you don’t wish to pay for an assessment tool, see if you can borrow one. Or take advantage of free tools.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Junior Achievement USA is an organization with over 100 local Areas that empowers the next generation by providing lessons in financial literacy, work and career readiness, and entrepreneurship. Use a fundraising thermometer Fundraising thermometers are a great tool for both donation forms and event registration pages.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

These tools can help organizations that work with individuals who have general writing concerns, English language learners, people with learning disabilities or physical handicaps in typing, people with dyslexia or recovering from strokes, and even those learning literacy and spelling.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2014

They are keys to web literacy and innovation. There are many organizations fueling the maker movement and teaching web literacy. free tools mozilla Open Source webmaker Communications' Alan Rosenblatt. Director of Digital Strategy. What do words and phrases like Webmaker, Maker Parties, and Thimble have in common?

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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. Give Internet users some tools they can use right away. Stay on top of tech news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

But, everyone can raise their data literacy, especially visualization. So, as I curate resources on this topic, I was excited to discover Rahul Bhargava – a data nerd who writes the Data Therapy Blog for the MIT Center for Civic Media. .” Why this resource?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Broadcasting lessons over the radio in Nigeria: As an Education Champion and founder of ACE Charity, Kiki James runs safe space clubs to help equip girls in northern Nigeria with the tools they need to realize their ambitions. The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM.

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Tech Soup

JULY 22, 2014

Basic Computer and Digital Literacy Skills. It's completely free and offers some handy tools for tracking your progress as you move through the courses. GCF Learn Free is a great resource for training others in computer literacy as well as personal training. Citrix GoToTraining.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. However, I don’t want to understate the challenges we face.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

In partnership with these organizations, TechSoup will be hosting a series of webinars about technology and innovation for early childhood literacy organizations and researchers. Media Mentors: Building Literacy Skills for the Digital Age. If you work with young children at a nonprofit or library, this free webinar series is for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea of ”data literacy” lately. It isn’t just about collecting data or the tools to collect the data – it’s also the sense-making and having it be embedded in the nonprofit’s culture.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2014

We want to give everyone the tools and resources they need to understand and effectively use web technologies. That’s why we’re supporting this global effort to teach web literacy through hands-on learning and making with the Maker Party. Join the celebration by attending a Maker Party event in your local area.

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