Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 5, 2008

The San Francisco Chronicle published an article about everywun.com , a new click-to-give site. The article makes this sound like a new idea, but The Hunger Site (and their later projects for breast cancer, children’s health, literacy, rain forest protection, and animal rescue) has been doing this since 1999.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

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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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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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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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Ever helpful, the team got on board to roll up their sleeves and pitch in at San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits that had big volunteer jobs. During the move, techsoup.org was unavailable — but our stalwart Client Services team was not. In the process, TechSoup learned just how much work goes into volunteer coordination (a lot!),

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. The concept of] family literacy is also very important in our community. In part 2, we offer a librarian's perspective as the host for this program.

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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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