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. This is especially true for those who are living in poverty, have experienced trauma, or are facing other challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. The children sat at their desks, quietly writing the khmer letters on their little chalk boards.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Now the company has made its Braille Bricks, a learning toy for children with visual impairments (or who just want to learn the script) available for purchase by anyone who wants them. The Play with Braille Lego set will be shipped in early September but is available for preorder in English and French now for $90.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. They are very focused on education linked to vocational outcomes: the goal is to help these children move up the economic ladder with real job skills. The children were simply delightful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Benetech has some of the juiciest and most exciting range of legal challenges I can imagine: the great majority of our legal work concerns intellectual property and human rights. Digital signatures for parents/guardians wanting to sign up their children with disabilities for Bookshare. when we bring them to developing world countries.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

The actual tech we used was very simple compared to Amira — the big challenge was trying to figure out how to make applications work with the teacher workflow, or make them friendly and resilient when 6-year-olds are your users,” he told me. “We’ve always struggled in this country to help our children become fluent readers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

We were shocked when we saw the 25 winners of the big $100,000 to $500,000 Google Impact Challenge Awards. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. Their Impact Challenge award will go toward documenting and photographing the San Francisco Bay shoreline by boat.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This blog originally appeared on the Huffington Post In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women and children. Being geeks, we thought of ways to address this challenge with technology.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Creative Galileo keeps children hooked by adding in their favorite cartoon characters. Its learning concepts include STEM, animation and graphic design, social and emotional learning and financial literacy. During that time, when interacting with children and parents, I came to the realization that there was a major learning crisis.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. A few months ago, I attended Microsoft Citizenship's YouthSpark Connection event and heard first-hand from recent high school graduates about how dire the need for digital literacy is.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

So, she teamed up with longtime friend Suchi Deshpande to help a market of parents who found themselves in a similar boat, trying to find a better format for educating their children. Closing the feedback loop. Innovating on traditional learning often requires retooling supplemental services for students outside of the classroom.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Global Fund For Children. Global Fund For Children. The Global Fund For Children believes that educating children and youth is the key to building a more peaceful and just society. They support strategic partners that focus on helping children succeed via a comprehensive approach to education. Mellon Foundation.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Together they toiled in a library basement—the newly arrived with little knowledge of English and computers to create vibrant slide presentations about things they love, birthday cards for their children, and even résumés. At the time, many said that technology skills were a “nice to have” rather than a tremendous door to opportunity.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Together they toiled in a library basement—the newly arrived with little knowledge of English and computers to create vibrant slide presentations about things they love, birthday cards for their children, and even résumés. At the time, many said that technology skills were a “nice to have” rather than a tremendous door to opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. I heard about the challenge because Laura Fitton posted this tweet. Now, a few critical thoughts about their charity challenge. You can read a more detailed definition here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2008

The America's Giving Challenge will be over in another ten days. If we win, we can help many children like Mon Channy have a better life. Frequently, children in very poor families work in order to bolster the family??? Frequently, children in very poor families work in order to bolster the family???s Mon Chany's Story.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

From creating digital learning opportunities and initiatives to protect girls’ mental well-being to securing national funding for education — the Champions we support are driving solutions to girls’ education challenges in their communities. . The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

In addition, we received lots of support and help from the Cambodian adoptive parent community and their families, churches, synagogues, fellow employees, golf buddies, quilting clubs, book clubs, parents of their children's school mates, high school and college friends, and beyond. The Cambodian American community also rallied for us too!

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 24, 2018

Bill Kauth, founder of the Mankind Project , a “global brotherhood of nonprofit charitable organizations that conducts challenging and highly rewarding programs for men at every stage of life.” . – John Wood , Founder of Room to Read, a nonprofit promoting literacy in children.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 9, 2023

For example, consider an organization for educators focused on improving literacy rates. One proven method of addressing literacy—especially in children with learning challenges—is approaching reading as a science. Membership has an impact because it can help uplift other educators and improve overall literacy rates.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. Offer a Challenge. Monthly donors make this work possible!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

As we wrote in the Mashable post: While the social web has been a fantastic place for nonprofits to harness the long tail of giving with movements like Twestival and the Case Foundation’s Giving Challenge , high dollar donor cultivation has not been prevalent. What are the challenges? The goal of our Community Philanthropy 2.0

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. The cycle of intergenerational poverty is enormously complicated and extends across so many different facets of a family’s experience.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

L — Listen and understand the challenges faced by individuals and organizations working to strengthen our community. I — Inspire individuals and organizations to overcome their challenges and make a difference in the community. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Digital can itself divide, of course, as has been writ large during a global pandemic in which the development of children excluded from attending school in person can hinge on whether or not they have internet access and computer literacy. Uber loses gig workers rights challenge in UK Supreme Court. Measures to change mindsets.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

Programs like this often add an array of useful freeware software to their AT computers like GCompris , Childsplay , and the Zacbrowser , which is an Internet browser specifically designed for autistic children. There are statewide programs like Texas Center for the Visually Challenged and Assistive Technology Resource Centers of Hawaii.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

March Madness bracket challenge March Madness is an exciting time for basketball lovers everywhere, and you can use that to your advantage for a March fundraising idea. Host a March Madness bracket challenge and allow your supporters to predict this season’s tournament winner for an entry fee.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Nonprofit organizations often face the challenge of raising funds on a tight budget. Escape Room Challenge Challenge your community’s problem-solving abilities with an escape room event, charging participants for an exhilarating experience while supporting your cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that. I have a story that you have to hear.'"

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

As new marketing trends emerge and old ones fall away, it can be challenging to know what to prioritize when creating compelling auction marketing materials. Let’s say your nonprofit focuses on promoting literacy and discovers that many of your donors are older teachers and parents in your community. Incorporate compelling visuals.

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Neon CRM

MAY 3, 2023

For example, if someone gave $50 to a literacy group, the email could say, “Your donation of $50 helped us give 100 books to 50 children.” Managing Your Recognition Program With Neon CRM Donor recognition strategies are a challenge to any nonprofit because they depend on tracking a lot of personal details about your constituents.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Where Dialogue in the Dark is a tactile and auditory experience led in complete darkness by blind guides, Dialogue in Silence is an exhibition of interpersonal challenges that must be completed in total silence. Chuck offered a quote from an advisory psychologist who commented that "children should be the brightest thing in the space."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. And today, braille is not being taught to most blind children.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

Despite its name, the Rio Grande Valley is a 43,000-square-mile delta that stretches across four counties in southernmost Texas, and it already grapples with climatic challenges. Funding is a serious challenge, though. Ive been in the [community center] working with children and they ask, What is that over there? million people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

The America's Giving Challenge will award $50,000 to the project that gets the most unique donors. I can't do this alone and that's why I'm asking my blogger friends to join me and in helping to raise money to help the many children who are touched by the Sharing Foundation's programs. Sign up here. Why am I doing this?

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