Remove Children Remove Literacy Remove San Francisco
article thumbnail

A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

Tech Soup

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.

article thumbnail

Everywun Wants Your Clicks

Robert Weiner

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.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

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.

Digital 66
article thumbnail

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.

Twitter 82
article thumbnail

MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

Tech Soup

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.

Library 36
article thumbnail

TechSoup Volunteers During Data Center Move

Tech Soup

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!),

article thumbnail

Celebrating TechSoup's Talented and Extraordinary Customer Service Team

Tech Soup

" Of her favorite charitable interests, she says simply, "Anything dealing with children pulls at my heart strings." " Outside of work, he enjoys playing soccer, disc golf, and going to live concerts, and he is really getting to like San Francisco. She says, "A good spades game is always a good time."

Service 36