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Growing Readers: Free Webinars for Early Childhood Orgs

Tech Soup

The Early Learning Lab , Frontiers of Innovation , and New Profit , along with partners Joan Ganz Cooney Center and TechSoup, are working together to build the technology capacity of the early childhood education field. Media Mentors: Building Literacy Skills for the Digital Age. In short, young children need media mentors.

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Three reasons kids need digital literacy and citizenship education — and three ways to provide it – Guest Post by Emily Esch. Three tips for teaching digital literacy and citizenship: Start with a clear vision.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

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. They provide education tailored to girls’ needs. State Street Foundation.

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Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser

The Modern Nonprofit

April = International Guitar Month, Autism Awareness Month, Parkinson’s Awareness Month, Financial Literacy Month, Jazz Appreciation Month, National Poetry Month, National Volunteer Month, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Stress Awareness Month, National Fair Housing Month.

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Reporting for Grantmakers: Charts vs. Lists to Make Sense of Your Data

sgEngage

When you have two or more metrics, such as grants given to different impact areas over time, you can pull that information into a bar chart and see in an instant that your organization, for example, gave more to food insecurity programs than early childhood literacy programs over the past two years.

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COVID-19 contributed to major education funding gap, report finds

Candid

According to Theirworld, if the annual funding gap is not met—and there are no plans or proposals to address the gap currently—more than half the world’s children are at risk of failing to attain basic literacy skills by 2030. According to Theirworld, the coronavirus pandemic at its peak forced more than 1.6

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A Guide for Private Foundations: Tax Exemption and 990-PF Filing Requirements

Blue Avocado

For example, a pet rescue organization will conduct adoption and foster programs, and an organization founded to promote childhood literacy may conduct afterschool programs for underprivileged children. Traditional nonprofit organizations conduct programming throughout the year that directly correlates with their mission statement.

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