Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

David Smith and Michael Weiser, National Conference on Citizenship. Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential. Moderated by Kari Dunn, Case Foundation. Michael : For all their frustrations about unemployment, they should be frustrated.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Global Fund For Children. Their educational focus areas include new designs to advance learning, pathways to postsecondary success, leadership and teaching to advance learning, public understanding, and integration, learning, and innovation. Global Fund For Children. Funding Priority: Education. Mellon Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Since I was a first year college student at UC Berkeley, I have been working with students and schools in low-income communities and have grown increasingly aware of how educational disparities keep children from reaching their potential. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

Until children reach a certain age, enrichment programs are somewhat limited to school, sports, and camps, while money-making opportunities are largely non-existent. They can also sell items made by global artisans through a partnership that Mighty has struck with Novica , an impact marketplace that also sells through National Geographic.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Teach for America’s vision statement is that one day, all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education. . National Public Radio: Our vision is to serve the public as the leading provider of high-quality news, information and cultural programming worldwide. Download Worksheet.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

” They chose to focus on primary-aged children, he said, not only because there were already a number of online tutoring services out in the market for secondary-school students (aged 12-18), but also because they believed that the fundamentals of learning needed to be addressed at a younger age.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

The term, somewhat synonymous with micro-schools, pandemic pods and small-group learning, describes small clusters of children within the same age range who are paired with a private instructor with the goal of replacing, or supplementing, school learning. Tired of ‘Zoom University’? So is edtech. A WeWork for education?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

Help them find biographical and autobiographical books, movies, and TV shows about inspiring people like Listen to the Wind , the children's version of the adult bestseller, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace. Talk about local, national and international current events. One School at a Time.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 14, 2024

Rosterfy is an end-to-end volunteer management and reporting tool that helps organizations — including the National Football League (NFL) — onboard, engage, and track their volunteers. Ensuring volunteers get the proper training is critical, especially if working with children. The overall management of volunteers is also challenging.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

When it comes to education, mathematics has long been considered one of the most challenging of subjects both to learn and to teach. That business has seen some encouraging traction, with 15,000+ teachers from 2,000 schools using its tools to teach math to 350,000 students. Most recently, it started its first K-5 pilots in the U.S.,

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) has sued Roblox for letting users upload music from Ariana Grande, Imagine Dragons, deadmau5, and other artists without paying a licensing fee. Image: Roblox. The lawsuit seeks $200 million in damages and a court order that will make Roblox crack down on piracy.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. They can share samples of their writing to illus­trate key concepts such as simplicity and clarity, and they can teach tips on editing and proofreading.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Abwaab has experienced strong growth during the pandemic-halted lockdown, when children were unable to attend normal schooling. On web and native apps, students participate in lessons, get feedback and join discussion boards. Abwaab on tablet. Image Credits: Abwaab.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

It’s extremely difficult to change the things we internalize as children. The bottom of the graph is literally crowded with European nations! It teaches you just how mundane the everyday existence of an early-stage startup is. Getting lower grades was boiled down “well, you didn’t study enough” or “you’re just not smart enough.”

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

And we don’t need to do it for some of our children, but for all of them. Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. That’s teaching. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. And we’ve realized we have to find new and better ways of doing things.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 28, 2021

The Teach For America Story: Creating Exceptional Constituent Experiences. Helping Families Get Affordable Childcare: Case + Program Mgmt on Salesforce (Featuring Illinois Action for Children). Advocates on local and national levels provide direct service to over 150K children and families each year.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 19, 2011

This is why children need to ride on fire trucks and dress up for Halloween, and this is why college programs have internships. (If Stephanie teaches undergraduate courses in the Nonprofit Leadership and Management program, and she has also been a youth summer camp director for over 20 years. Like this article? Carlton Yoshioka, Ph.D.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

GivingTuesday is a movement to create a national day of giving , kicking off the giving season. And w e would like to spotlight a few in the TechSoup community who have joined us in championing this second annual national day of giving : InvestED has launched a volunteer and donation program specially designed around Giving Tuesday.

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Everyaction

JUNE 20, 2018

In June of 2018, this mandate feels more pressing than ever, as thousands of families seeking asylum are torn apart and children are held in cages at the U.S. World Refugee Day is held every year on June 20th to honor and commemorate the strength, courage and perseverance of past and current refugees across the globe. World Relief.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2011

Today, I am about two-thirds of the way through my second term of national service in Public Allies Arizona and AmeriCorps. I hope to teach my own children, someday, all that I’ve learned about service and citizenship. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Fear not, nonprofit professionals! All You Need is Love.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This facility will offer a nationally standardized curriculum and evidence-based programming for 200 children ages 0-3. We will celebrate how far we’ve come with healthcare while also teaching them what still needs to be fixed. Plans are in early development for an inclusive option for all types of patients.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

There are ways to take the wonderful work you’re doing and expand your reach to teach more people, heal more people and enrich more people’s lives. The target supporter market for a local human services agency did not extend to the national online world. you can still go deeper. Lessons learned: . All markets are not created equal.

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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. Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Take for example, The Free Rice Game , an interactive online game that donated rice to the United Nations World Food Program based on clicking. The game was very engaging for adults and children alike. . All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Dawn Crawford, Colorado Children's Immunization Coalition. [Ed. When I teach a class about Twitter I always get the same questions: “How can I say anything in 140 characters?”. We’ve even been invited to events and national conferences because of our presence on Twitter. You can read all the details here. ].

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 6, 2009

A March 2008 report in Science magazine, Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness , found that, "spending more of one's income on others predicted greater happiness both cross-sectionally (in a nationally representative survey study) and longitudinally (in a field study of windfall spending)." For example, according to the U.S.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

in Oklahoma is one of the frontline organizations that addresses these and other issues in a very interesting way – starting with the children. is located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, which is the capitol of the Cherokee Nation. Heather is pretty proud of the work they’re doing on behalf of Native American children.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

National University. Leads the innovative efforts at National University for military, veteran, and military family educational degree programs . National Community Relations and Development Director & National Spokesperson. Shriners Hospital for Children. Teach For America. Kimberly Mitchell.

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Candid

DECEMBER 10, 2021

million for clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies aimed at improving care for adults and children across a range of health conditions. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has announced grants totaling $49.5 The grants will fund nine new CER studies, including three focused on telehealth and mobile health strategies.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. They recruited a local volunteer to teach the kids Adobe InDesign to lay out the publication. Both children and older patrons avidly use the library’s public access computers with current Microsoft applications.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

She is an expert in developing and teaching practical, ready-made tools that inspire people to take action. Prior to joining the Eagles in 2000, Julie worked in the television and business affairs department at the National Hockey League in New York. Kristen Hadeed imagines a world in which all organizations have cultures that.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, they partnered with groups like Focus the Nation and 1Sky so that they could share a backend database ensuring that they were then able to share calls to action and garner far more numbers together than as competitors. There’s no limit to either. It instantly becomes less about numbers and more about impact.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. Friday, May 11th will be the 3rd annual Mother's Day "Peace of the Pie" National Action Day as part of The Peace Alliance's campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace. Beth Kanter posted about this a couple weeks ago.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It’s the same one that, years later, she would teach to her seven children. It recognizes the collective right to intellectual property of these communities, calls for the creation of a National Registry of Cultural Heritage, and allows the government to prosecute theft of a cultural work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

This is the neighborhood that shocked the nation in 1992 when 7-year old Dandrell Davis was shot and killed while walking to school. This year they have become part of the adult tutor/mentor corps, and are now volunteering to help other Cabrini Green children move through school and into college then careers.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 10, 2014

Karen serves on the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation board, and is an adjunct faculty member for Johns Hopkins University’s graduate certificate program, teaching philanthropy to aspiring nonprofit CEOs and board leaders.Connect with Karen on Twitter. .

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