Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In the following years, New York adopted the Congress’s plan, designating the second Saturday in May as American Indian Day. In addition to celebration, the month is also a time to reckon with the history of the treatment of the Indigenous peoples in America and the impact of their dispossession by European settlers.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

To date, Pencils of Promise has built nearly 600 schools worldwide, and over 130K students are currently enrolled in those schools. Diversifying Engagement Strategies Consider that the Pencils of Promise supporter base is comprised of people from many different backgrounds. The answer, simply, is to give people what they want!

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Twenty Hats

APRIL 6, 2021

Back in the late aughts I had my first brush with volunteer management, when I volunteered for a second year with a film festival in New York City. In my first year, I just stood at the entrance to a 25-screen megaplex and pointed people to our little corridor of two or three screens. Many of us know and love Salesforce.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Maybe you’ve glimpsed the #1 New York Times best-selling book in a store window somewhere. Maybe you’re one of the 8 million people who follow the page on social media. But chances are, by now, you’ve heard the buzz about Brandon Stanton and the internet phenomenon that is Humans of New York.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The foundations on this list are just a few of the many that understand the importance that youth empowerment plays in helping young people from all backgrounds grow and excel during this critical stage of their life. Robin Hood is New York City’s largest poverty-fighting organization. Areas served: New York City.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 7, 2021

After a year of pandemic-fueled isolation — undoubtedly a primary factor in 42% of adults experiencing anxiety and depression, up 11% from previous years — educational institutions and businesses are making the mental wellbeing of their students and employees a priority. Charlamagne Tha God’s Life’s Work is Helping Black People Heal.

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DipJar

MARCH 17, 2022

Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. It is a great example of a storied institution finding new ways to support the community it serves and provide new ways – including DipJar – for the community to support its good work. It is used by people in many different ways. And that’s because St.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 25, 2016

It’s the brainchild of Donna and Ben Rosen, a New York power couple with connections to science, technology, politics, the arts and more. She and one of her graduate students demonstrated their Emerald technology, and it was the first time I’d seen this capability. The answer is that it’s hard to get people to wear something.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Helmsley Charitable Trust , the first in a series of three Poverty Tracker reports, Health and Health Care in New York City (36 pages, PDF), found that more than two million New Yorkers have high healthcare needs and are more likely to live in poverty. and Harry B. Harvard Graduate School of Education receives $40 million gift.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

For instance, people such as Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and others suggest we enter into a doomsday scenario. . At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

These are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on “awesome projects.” . New Earth Foundation. New Earth Foundation “seeks to fund innovative projects that enhance life on our planet and brighten the future, furthering peace.” . Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: US.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Last week, in honor of Labor Day, we shared an introduction to unions, including six things people might not know about the role of unions in the social sector. California and New York have the most unions in the dataset, with 3,790 and 3,777 organizations respectively. Unions by the numbers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For example, I became involved in LGBTQ+ organizing because I found community in a way I had never experienced before with an organization in college that worked to support LGBTQ+ students. In my example from above, I might go on to talk about how I saw others finding a sense of community in student, local, and statewide LGBTQ+ organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

It’s been a few weeks now; I’ve used it to share photos from a work trip to Portland, Maine, and to explore my neighborhood in New York. It’s a way of interacting with other people, other places, and other times from anywhere you are. People can follow along via the mobile application or the website.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Many K-12 schools have found success by centralizing their asks in celebration of the students, faculty and staff building a legacy. Joseph’s College New York. Engage current students and alumni to share those stories on your giving day hub to give real-life meaning to how a donation can impact the campus community.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

Leaders like Oluwatoyin Ayanfodun (Toyin) , founder of Tomorrow’s Leaders NYC (TLNYC) which has supported 2,000 over-age middle school students across New York to defy the statistics. of CEOs and leaders of surveyed foundations are people of color. . According to the Council on Foundations , only 10.3%

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? When working with communities, trying to enable change, looking for opportunities to spark collaboration, love seems like a strange thing to think about for many people.

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Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

After the country’s bicentennial celebrations, Jew approached Representative Frank Horton of New York with the idea to create a month to recognize Asian Pacific Americans. million people. By that time, there were 1.5 million Asian Americans in the U.S. and the population more than doubled over the next ten years to 3.7

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

It often surprises people when I mention that education accounts for fully one-fifth of nonprofit activity , second only to human services. PowerMyLearning is a new, free online resource that has educational games, videos, and other activities for elementary, middle-school, and high school-aged students. Computers for Youth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Several nonprofits have successfully interacted with, and more importantly, seen impact from, these engaged new audiences. GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Keynote speakers include Glennon Doyle , New York Times bestselling author, activist, philanthropist, and host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast; and Simu Liu , actor, writer, producer, and one of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People of 2022.” Register now for bbcon 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2013

I am donating my royalties to support the Sharing Foundation‘s college education program for young people in Cambodia. By purchasing a book , you will not only help your nonprofit improve its program impact, but you will changing the lives for young people in Cambodia.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? At Benetech, we are harnessing these new rules of innovation. 10X: ten times the impact. That’s what’s been on my mind lately.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

A native of Oneida County, New York, Mark served in the U.S. Navy SEALs for 20 years, retiring as a commander, and holds an MBA from New York University's Leonard N. Question : Why do so many people go through life having never Assessed Their Starting Point by answering the Self-Assessment Questions featured in your book?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 23, 2021

In the new book, From the Bench to the Boardroom , Michael MacDonald shares his journey from humble beginnings in the outskirts of Philadelphia, to his college basketball career at Rutgers, to executive positions at Xerox and Medifast. As a basketball player, Michael learned teamwork, courage, adaptability, and much more.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 21, 2020

With whatever power you have, do something that makes other people stop and say, “Wait, we can do that?” Don’t just drink your coffee quietly while the room burns down, because you are also flammable. What small thing can you normalize? What big thing can you break and rebuild? It’s no small feat. I’m asking you to stay.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Most of the books I work with are books requested by students and titles from the New York Times (NYT) bestsellers list. While publishers do donate thousands of digital texts to Bookshare, the NYT bestsellers are added to the collection through a "people process." students thanks to support from the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. As a non-lawyer, let me explain from the point of view of a technologist who cares passionately about accessibility for people with disabilities. copyright law).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

A native of Oneida County, New York, Mark served in the U.S. Navy SEALs for 20 years, retiring as a commander, and holds an MBA from New York University''s Leonard N. I find it easy to teach people who are very committed to training and personal development, regardless of their age. Stern School of Business.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. The human rights issue we’re discussing are the human rights of people with disabilities that cannot effectively use the printed word. The good news is that for any Microsoft Press book that a U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. She grew up in Hunts Point, a South Bronx neighborhood that for decades was plagued by poverty, violence and ecological degradation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 9, 2008

These were quite familiar to folks like Frank Simpson of the Lavelle School in New York and Miki Jordan of the Junior Blind of America in Los Angeles. We enjoyed getting a chance to chat with a couple of the students who were impressively fluent. The vocational rehab building focuses on getting blind people job.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In conjunction with Aulas en Paz (Peaceable Classrooms), a multi-component pedagogical project designed to promote social and civic competencies and conflict resolution among primary-school students, Dance 4 Peace was designed, implemented, and evaluted in public schools in the outskirts of Bogotá. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C.,

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Additionally, Microsoft recently announced its YouthSpark initiative, which aims to create opportunities for 300 million young people over the next three years. These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

A native of Oneida County, New York, Mark served in the U.S. Navy SEALs for 20 years, retiring as a commander, and holds an MBA from New York University''s Leonard N. I find it easy to teach people who are very committed to training and personal development, regardless of their age. Stern School of Business.

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