Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Nonprofit activities shape the students, teaching them valuable skills, helping them foster empathy, and connecting them to causes that matter. These experiences can transform communities, strengthen missions, and build a pipeline of future leaders and advocates. Creating student-friendly events taps into this potential.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

2) There are over 20,000 Skills in the Amazon Skills Store. As mobile apps add functionality to smartphones and tablets, Amazon Skills add functionality to Amazon Echo smart speakers. Brands are flocking to build their own Skills using the Alexa Skills Kit or hiring developers to do it for them.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In his last semester at college, in between studying labor law and environmental impact assessment, Alex Elderbroom took a class on something very different: how to build a tiny house. He was interested in learning how to build one of the homes himself. It seems like a good set of skills to have, he says.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

The first kit is basic electronics where kids learn how to build simple circuits, like a doorbell, kitchen timer and a music composer, for example. One instructor is bilingual and teaches some classes in Spanish. Two of the five teachers are women.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Innovative organizations are finding ways to make augmented and virtual reality a more efficient, and even more practical, way to interact with technologies and tools, including letting people learn complex skills through virtual training. AI-powered assessments guide users through refining their skills and improving techniques.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

In Managing Up , human behavior professor and executive coach Melody Wilding reveals how to subtly teach those above you to respect your ideaswithout needing a title change. Build trust with leadership! Your brilliant idea gets shot down because you didnt build enough consensus. Theres a method to managing up. Be proactive!

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2022

Our pledge to champion data skills on such a large scale goes to the very heart of our mission: to help people see and understand data. . More than a quarter of a million people have already learned in-demand data skills from Tableau's data education programs. Data skills are foundational in a digital world.

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2022

Our pledge to champion data skills on such a large scale goes to the very heart of our mission: to help people see and understand data. . More than a quarter of a million people have already learned in-demand data skills from Tableau's data education programs. Data skills are foundational in a digital world.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Instead, these programs primarily focus on personal skills building, lack cultural competency for leaders of small and midsize organizations, and offer curricula that adapt a one-size-fits-all approach based on the best practices of the sector. As a result, I feel 2024 was one of my most productive years as a nonprofit leader.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Mancini: For those who aren’t familiar, Black Girls Code is an organization that works to inspire, educate, and launch the next generation of technologists by equipping them with the skills and confidence to lead in a field where they’ve historically been underrepresented. One that is safe, inclusive, and joyful.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

But it has also served to highlight the abysmal nature of early years teaching: Some 40 million teachers across the globe are leaving the sector, according to the World Bank. But the strategy is that we’re building it in two phases. The first phase is actually building a school that we operate as a ‘lab’ school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

I have been delivering virtual master classes and helping to develop their capacity building programs in digital skills. Resilience: This relates to all the curriculum, writing, and teaching I do around The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Leadership Development. Skills in this area I want to deepen are reflection and creativity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Those of us who read a lot of tech and business publications have heard for years about the cybersecurity skills gap. The other is possession of a skill set that no one else on our security team has. The other is possession of a skill set that no one else on our security team has. I don’t buy it. Probably not very.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2020

The kit comes with instructions on how to build five robots. Lego’s Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit is a new set that lets kids build and design robots. It’s designed as a way to teach children basic STEM skills, including programming, and it’s the first new entry in the Mindstorms lineup in seven years. Image: Lego.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Nate Zinsser , Director of West Point’s influential Performance-Psychology Program, shares his secrets of mental toughness and how to build and master confidence. And, that confidence is a skill that can be taught , improved, and applied by anyone to enhance nearly every aspect of our lives and careers. “

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

How do you go about developing the technology skills of your staff? In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

With most teaching repetitive coding, in a very rigid, instructional way, it tends to appeal more to boys than girls, says EAK. After R&D of two years, it came up with a game designed to teach kids and girls as young as eight skills such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript through highly gamified, story-driven gameplay.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

So, you would think that the most pressing skill to build is in revenue generation, like fundraising , government grants, or fee-for-service programs. Yes, the number one skill that nonprofit professionals need to focus on in 2021 is marketing. The first skill to develop in seeking major gifts is prospect research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I made it to the 1000K level for United, in part, due to too many International trips, including teaching a master class and workshop session at the IFC-Asia in Bangkok, teaching a workshop in Brasil for Ford Motor Company Leadership Fellowship Program, and Tech2Empower in Peru. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Fortunately, according to Dr. Kandi Wiens , author of the new book, Burnout Immunity , you can learn how to build immunity to burnout. Workers with specific EI skills know how to successfully cope with stressful work environments and experiences. Was it an acquired skill? Managing yourself. Understanding others.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Promova , whose mission is to make language learning more accessible to people who are neurodivergent, is the first language learning app to build a dedicated setting for those with dyslexiaa specialized typeface and adjustments to font size and brightness help mitigate some of the most common reading challenges that people with dyslexia experience.

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John Kenyon

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Use real scenarios from your nonprofit, let people practice solving actual challenges, and show them exactly how these skills will amplify their daily work. Instead, build a culture of continuous technological learning. Instead, build a culture of continuous technological learning.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Here’s how you can build that board. Teach them about fundraising. Because with the perks and benefits of board service like meeting great people who are also passionate about the mission, honing your leadership skills, and making a difference for others comes the task of maintaining strong financial oversight.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

In “ Teaching Algorithmic Reasoning via In-Context Learning ”, we describe an approach that leverages in-context learning to enable algorithmic reasoning capabilities in LLMs. By providing algorithmic prompts, we can teach a model the rules of arithmetic via in-context learning. scratchpad and chain-of-thought ).

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This latest Tableau Academic program release enables instructors to quickly get up and running to teach data literacy skills to the next generation of decision makers. . One: Instructors spend valuable time building courses in learning management systems—time they could be spending with students.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This latest Tableau Academic program release enables instructors to quickly get up and running to teach data literacy skills to the next generation of decision makers. One: Instructors spend valuable time building courses in learning management systems—time they could be spending with students. Data Literacy One goes to Canvas.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Still, our team-building exercises included cooking classes, go-kart races and trips to local driving ranges. ” What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? One black-tie work party I attended caused a run on several area tuxedo rental shops. When my company’s softball team played against Yahoo!

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Building a non-profit website might be the most intimidating aspect of launching an organization. Building a donor-friendly website is a complex job – part marketing and part technical. Start With the Basics: Platform, Domain Name, and Site Map The first thing you need to do in building your non-profit website is choose a platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Somewhat ironically, Shimkus landed on teaming up with former Udemy CEO Dennis Yang to take a second swing at building the world’s biggest enterprise education company, albeit with an entirely different approach from their shared alma mater. Per Shimkus, he and Yang were able to raise $6.8 We own all the content that we’re creating.”

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Fundraising is a skilled profession. To become a fundraiser, start by learning the skills and commit to mastering the craft – which takes time. Stage 2 is about building a solid foundation, and this does NOT include asking for money yet. We had some existing fundraising activities for me to build upon, fortunately.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

As of now, this technology has already shown some degree of promise for all of the following very human psychological skills: diagnosing diseases, writing code, summarizing and teaching information, predicting markets, brainstorming, product design, project management, coaching, and much more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

As a company founded by data scientists, Streamlit may be in a unique position to develop tooling to help companies build machine learning applications. Data scientists can download the open-source project and build a machine learning application, but it requires a certain level of technical aptitude to make all the parts work.

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Tableau

MARCH 19, 2024

Students from all over the world try their hand at building a data visualization using Tableau-provided data, and only three of them win. A lot of people are excited about building models and making predictions but, for me, it was the visualization aspect that got me interested. Winning Iron Viz: Student Edition is no small feat.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Working with data is a necessity for most jobs, and analytical skills can be a huge differentiator for success across all kinds of work—whether corporate, nonprofit, or academic. Without closing the data skills gap, these challenges would continue into their professional lives. Proficiency in quantitative skills .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

In the past week, Coderhouse, a live cohort-based learning platform, and Crehana, an on-demand skills development service for the enterprise, both announced financing rounds. The founder estimates that only 8% of teachers are accepted to teach on Coderhouse’s platform, resulting in nearly 2,000 active teachers with the company today.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When it comes to building relationships with donors, we assume that it will take weeks or months of relationship-building before they’ll be willing to respond to our donation appeal. In other words, the question isn’t, “How long does it take to build relationships with new people to lead them to become supporters of this mission?”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In order to recover, companies must focus on re-skilling their workforces in a measured and sustainable way. The platform’s entry-level gives workers a way to safely and effectively learn a trade, and companies a solution on mass up-skilling needs. At its core, Transfr is building a “classroom to career pipeline,” Rajakumar says.

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