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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. Around Gender.

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One Organization’s Quest for Good

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Library For All co-founder and CEO Rebecca McDonald was living in Australia when tragedy struck Haiti in 2010. A massive earthquake caused chaos in Haiti and killed over 100,000 people. Although McDonald had never been to Haiti, she had recurring dreams about the country. Let’s backtrack to when it all started.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

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Local literacy program supporting students in Haiti raises record-breaking funds, moves 24 students off waiting list. 5K will raise money for school’s outdoor classroom and track . Bicycle program readies for holidays, will repair and give away 150 bikes. Food pantry partners with local pet rescue to open pet food pantry.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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FishHawk Fellowship Church & Welcome Home HaitiHaiti Mission Trip. This is a screenshot of FishHawk Fellowship Church’s and Welcome Home Haiti’s Haiti Mission Trip campaign page, an example of a faith-based peer-to-peer campaign.]. MoveIn Vision – Prayer Journey 2020.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

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You answered our call for donations so students could move off our waiting list and into classrooms. In Haiti, a typical adult has just five years of schooling, and the literacy rate is just 53 percent. Because of your gift and gifts from other generous donors like you, seven new students got to enroll in school!

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The correlation found in Haiti is an example of a "confounding factor". You wouldn't measure all the shoes in a classroom to evaluate the kids' reading ability. A correlation was found between building damage and SMS streams, but only because both were correlated with the simple existence of buildings. .

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7 Reasons Nonprofits Need iPads

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Who could have predicted that one of the most popular iPhone applications would be one that turns the phone into a flute , or that a first-aid app would save the life of man trapped in the rubble in Haiti? 4) Training Tool: Educators and trainers are already incorporating new technology into the classroom.