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10 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Gifts range from symbolic adopt-an-acre of a national park gifts to funding a classroom project in a low-income community. Wilderness Society Adoption Center. Oceana Marine Wildlife Adoption and Gift Center. World Wildlife Gift Center. Save the Children Gifts of Joy. Heifer International Holiday Gifts.

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Amira Learning raises $11M to put its AI-powered literacy tutor in post-COVID classrooms

TechCrunch

In classrooms, a common exercise is to have students read aloud from a storybook or worksheet. bringing fairly conventional edtech software into elementary school classrooms at scale. The $11 million in funding comes at what could be a hockey-stick moment for Amira’s adoption. We’d be out of business in a nanosecond.”).

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Reimagining equity with AI: What philanthropy can do

Candid

But AI adoption comes with challenges. The inequity in AI adoption today has parallels to the early days of seat belt installation in cars. We bear the responsibility to ensure AI adoption is equitable, ethical, and inclusive. Yet significant barriers to AI adoption remain.

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Google Meet now blocks anonymous users by default to prevent 'zoombombing'

TechSpot

Part of coping with the current Covid-19 pandemic has been to shift classroom education to online learning. Unfortunately, Zoom's wide adoption led to "zoombombing", where strangers would join random Zoom conference calls and potentially do inappropriate things. Google is mitigating that with an update to its G Suite for Education.

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Zerofootprint: A Cool Approach to Sustainability

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Do they leave the lights on in all the classrooms all night? Zerofootprint is an exciting social enterprise, and one I hope to see gain expanded adoption. As a human, I zero in right away on the schools that are spending ten times as much per student as their most efficient comparable schools in the same neighborhood.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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How #GivingTuesday Can Help Your Nonprofit Reach PhilanthroKids or Generation Z Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving. The Giving 2.0

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