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Mark Your Calendars! 2015 Cause Awareness Days

Nonprofit Tech for Good

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 5: Give Local America Day — #GiveLocal15. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 2: World Autism Awareness Day — #WorldAustismDay and #LIUB. September.

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2017 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar

Nonprofit Tech for Good

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 2: Give Local America Day — #GiveLocal17. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay.

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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

NTEN

Some major victories were also won on both the local and federal levels in getting government recognition and support around digital access. We saw more organizations and individuals becoming digital equity champions, affirming that we need government support in the sector.

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The Information Diet: Not Just A Book, A Movement For Conscious Consumption of Information

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. This is good, basic digital literacy principles that have been taught by educators and librarians taught in the early 2000′s and continue today. To encourage consumption of local information.

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What do Twitter, Books, Wine, and Fundraisers have in Common?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions. Based on my experience with the Sharing Foundation in Cambodia, I know how important it is for children in developing countries to have books to read in their own language.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

But, I expect that 75% of the job will be about analyzing the legal issues from our programs, especially in our Global Literacy Program, which includes Bookshare, the largest digital library for the blind and dyslexic in the U.S., Digital signatures for parents/guardians wanting to sign up their children with disabilities for Bookshare.