Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

At a remote elementary school in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, until recently, access to safe drinking water was a daily challenge. He realized that access to clean drinking water was a challenge even in areas with abundant rain. Children often got sick from drinking the water.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Getting children to school safely and reliably is a challenge as old as public education itself. student transportation hubs speaking into walkie-talkies and wrangling clipboards as they sort passengers into gas-guzzling yellow buses. Ritu Narayan was working as a product executive at eBay when her two children began attending school.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The classrooms have child-size boats and construction vehicles children can play on, and ceilings painted to resemble outer space. Windows are low to the ground so children can easily look outside. Hallways are lined with a corrugated plastic for wiggly fingers to touch as children transition to other locations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

m , a startup that provides optimized transportation services for school-age children, has announced the close of a $130 million Series D raise, bringing its total funding to more than $200 million. More than 26 million children in the U.S. m CEO Ritu Narayan explains why equity and accessibility works for mobility services.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Riley Children’s Foundation serves as the fundraising arm of Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health and the founding organization that opened Riley Hospital in 1924. At Riley Children’s Foundation, every gift received makes an impact, and every act of giving has the potential to greatly improve the lives of children.

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

million students - and counting - have acquired data skills through our program. In collaboration with Tableau, Pathstream developed a 5-month fully-online Data & Business Analytics Certificate that builds critical skills to connect college and career for non-traditional students. Eleanor Cooper , Pathstream CEO. To mention a few: .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in a new chapter for virtual learning, giving a boost of attention to existing tools and spurring the creation of new services and use cases as students of all ages were ordered to stay home and stay out of classrooms. The obvious place for Atom was to start was online learning aimed at students.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Students with limited resources can benefit tremendously from remote classroom access by educational nonprofits. A mere nine percent of children from America’s most low-income families graduate – this is compared to 77 percent from the wealthiest families. Interactive games. Affordable resource for interaction.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Global Fund For Children. Global Fund For Children.

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NetWits

APRIL 19, 2012

Also, how many of your alumni have gotten married, changed names, changed jobs, had children … The list can go on and on. Do you have special alumni access and pages? Students and alumni, particularly Gen Y, are not interested in “snail mailing” you a check. The key here is to ensure that you are on top of your donors.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Casey Foundation’s annual KIDS COUNT Data Book , are alarming: Too few children are graduating from high school ready to earn because many aren’t arriving ready to learn—or not regularly attending school at all. The number of chronically absent students nearly doubled from 16% in the 2018–19 school year to 30% in 2021–22.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

According to his mom, this experience is common to children with Cerebral Palsy. They get frustrated and don’t want to read,” she says, “but access to digital books and reading technologies changed all that for Zach.” With Bookshare’s accessible ebooks and reading tools, Zach made a successful transition to college.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2010

For example, we combined the business strategies of Amazon and (the old) Napster to create Bookshare to bring accessible talking books to students who can't read print books because of their disabilities. If you're looking for a new job, look for a company that offers the chance to work on Stuff That Matters.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

billion primary-age children, only a few can access high-quality education, and approximately 58 million primary-age children are out of education, most of whom are girls. Bina’s “schtick” is that it has very small online class sizes of six students (3x smaller than the OECD average ).

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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. This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

The nonprofit helps children with severe physical impairments and complex communication needs. Casella, who has worked in special education for 50 years, discussed the different kinds of technology the Bridge School uses with its students. With advanced technology, the students are empowered with mobility, education, and communication.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

American University in Bulgaria created a fund to support students affected by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Doctors Without Borders is working to ensure people’s access to health care and medicines during the conflict for Ukrainian people and communities. Save the Children. Voices of Children.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Jordan-based online learning platform Abwaab has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round (following a $5 million seed round in March of this year), making it one of the most funded edtech startups in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP), a region that encompasses 160 million students. Abwaab on tablet.

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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. Some major victories were also won on both the local and federal levels in getting government recognition and support around digital access.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

Why shouldn’t visually impaired and disabled students in the United States have easy access to the study of the languages? Why shouldn’t students in Puerto Rico benefit from our technology and services? Within these regions there are nine Service Centers for Special Education that train and service teachers and students.

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The Verge

JULY 5, 2020

Back in 2015, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he had started a school to teach his five kids, eventually expanding it as a non-profit school for some children of SpaceX employees. I just wish he would have chosen instead to partner with Oakland or Alum Rock, a school district that serves low income students in Silicon Valley.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

You also have a volunteer program for middle and high school students to work with the children in after-school time in lieu of child care, but find that the current partners you have in the community don’t work for attracting new volunteers to participate. The benefits? These are both tangible and intangible.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

The term, somewhat synonymous with micro-schools, pandemic pods and small-group learning, describes small clusters of children within the same age range who are paired with a private instructor with the goal of replacing, or supplementing, school learning. Tired of ‘Zoom University’? So is edtech.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2011

I would not expect the parents of blind children to drive the rights struggle for blind people, but I had taken the role of parents as the prime movers in the LD movement for given. But, these leaders were “out” about their disability.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

That’s important when you’re selling an affordable computer, and it’s especially important when you’re selling an accessible device to help children learn to code. It’s not just children learning to code to whom the company wants to sell Pi 400s. The Pi 400 is meant for children, adults, and even businesses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The company’s active client base grew 350% year over year, currently at over 50,000 paying students. The money will be used to get more students into its universe of tools, as well as help Novakid expand into international markets with high populations of speakers who want to learn English. Students are clicking in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

.” Although “paragogy” is a more rationally derived word that extends “pedagogy” (teaching children) and “androgogy” (teaching adults), I’ve started calling it peeragogy because many people get the point as soon as I use the word.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

The premium product also grants users access to a database of 50,000 manually created puzzles that allows players to train certain skills. The long-term goal of Kasparovchess is to connect global chess communities with each other, unearth prodigies that might not have access otherwise and give others access to his experiences.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit operating in support of a vision that one day all children in the United States will have the opportunity to attain an equitable and excellent education. Success Story: Creating Engaging Student Journeys With St. Changing the Technology Strategy. Written by Blake Becker.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Global Fund for Children. Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. WHAS Crusade for Children. Global Fund for Children. They accept submissions from any United States-based, IRS-recognized nonprofit organizations focused on work that benefits America’s children. Funding Priority: Youth Programs.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Robert Morris University’s mission is to help students become engaged, productive, and successful citizens. As RMU President Dr. As part of their transformation , TTU implemented automation to eliminate time-consuming manual work, which helps admissions counselors focus on making stronger personal connections with prospective students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

The teacher introduced me as a visitor from America and asked if there the children wanted to ask me any questions. This prompted some amazing questions for children that age anywhere: How many jets did you take to get to India? They start the day with a student posting an inspirational quote on the board.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

The main goal of visiting Micronesia is for me to gain a real-world perspective on schools and books for students with disabilities. Students on Pohnpei learn in the vernacular (Pohnpeian) until they are in third grade, when they start learning English. Most classrooms have desks and textbooks and all have chalkboards.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For many students, these school closures could mean the end of their formal education. Our aim at Malala Fund is to create a world where every girl can access 12 years of free, safe, quality education. It doesn’t require internet access. Syrian refugees and Lebanese students learn for free. . .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

The centerpiece of the meeting on Guam was the first leadership meeting of the Pacific Consortium for Instructional Materials Accessibility Project, or Pacific CIMAP for short. Bookshare.org is a consultant to the Pacific CIMAP: our virtual library suits their geography as long as you can get access to the Internet.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Everyone in the school should to be committed to keeping families and students engaged so they want to return year after year. Your school’s onboarding process is critical to student retention and your strategy should involve not only admissions staff, but also your entire leadership team. Here are the top five.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

People have been choosing to have fewer children, and that decline has significant implications for educational institutions worldwide. The ongoing conversation about student debt and the value of a college credential exacerbates the issue for higher education institutions. How is the perceived value of a college degree changing?

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