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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while video games like Zoo Tycoon or online games can teach them all sorts of skills that will need to be successful adults (and this has been validated recently by a MacArthur Foundation funded study ,) I was excited to discover this wonderful list of games for change. They created the Popcorn For Kids Campaign.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This past year took me to London to teach nonprofit leaders at workshops on digital strategy hosted by LinkedIn and Social Misfits, and to Cambodia to teach a series of workshops for Women’s Rights NGOs hosted by Wake International.

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Coaching in your Learning and Development Program

Gyrus

As summer winds down, and the intense heat we have been experiencing here in Virginia starts to subside, it can only mean one thing. Instructional designers have been trying for years to come up with the perfect teachings for organizational entities, with learnings ranging from electronic, social, micro, mobile, instructor-led, and blended.

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Volunteer for Mozilla Service Week

NTEN

Here are some examples: William Reynolds of the University of Virginia is going to teach his student council how to use social media to better communicate with students. Create your own: Reach out to a local school, organization or people near you to find out what sort of technology help they need.

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Cool App Roundup: Library Edition

Tech Soup

teaches people how to search for and access resources in the library’s. The UCSF Library and the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. both offer their students a detailed list of mobile resources, including downloadable apps for specific devices and mobile-friendly. collection?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: All You Need is Love. and a Whole Lot.

ASU Lodestar Center

With keynote speakers Travis Manzione (Director of Assessment Tools for The Center for Effective Philanthropy ) and Charles Best (Founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org ), and a panel representing local nonprofits and funders (including Ear Candy , Phoenix Youth at Risk , SRP , and Virginia G. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

A participant from Virginia working in education explained: Because of COVID and the lockdown, our population of 18-to-24-year-olds exploded in the last six months… We’ve never had this many young adults in our program before. And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers.