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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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The kids are not alright. Here’s how philanthropy can help  

Candid

The pandemic’s impact on chronic absence Chronic absence— missing at least 10% of school days in one academic year—is a significant driver of the low literacy and numeracy skills reflected in the KIDS COUNT data. Photo credit: Inside Creative House via Getty Images The post The kids are not alright.

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Seven Ways Your Organization can Put Privacy Into Practice – and Why

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Sean MacEntee. We’re streaming video, posting photos, sharing personal information and listening to music, not to mention “checking in” wherever we go. This applies both in building friendships and in building business, and the learning starts right at home and in the classroom.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. Betsy, a former teacher with a Master's in Education and Learning Disabilities, has a keen understanding of what educators need to adopt Bookshare.org and other technology in the classroom.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

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 . Include 1 – 3 photos and a short video, if you have one. Embed your photos in the email. Convert your press release to a PDF.

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Finding the Great Impact Story

Tech Soup

We saw the potential in this story and dispatched a reporter and photojournalist to interview the town's residents, write up a feature for our online newspaper, and create a photo essay. Take the time to package the story as best you can: add photos, video, audio, pull quotes, infographics.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. site that has photos, etc., While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation. I remixed it from an earlier prsentation called Associations 2.0

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