NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

On April 16, the NTEN team in Portland spent the afternoon volunteering at Schoolhouse Supplies , in belated honor of National Volunteer Week. Schoolhouse Supplies is a nonprofit based in northeast Portland that helps to serve classrooms in need by operating a volunteer-run Free Store for Teachers, which is stocked with donated supplies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. What can be done today to build this accessible tomorrow?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Nations like Burkina Faso and Liberia are cutting the share of girls subjected to the practice over the last 30 years by half. In Afghanistan, girls are barred from high school and college classrooms due to national restrictions. But there is hope. An estimated 129 million girls are not in school, globally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’m pleased to see that some of the skepticism and complaints have now morphed in to more capacity builders providing tips for nonprofits to take advantage of this national day of giving. I’ve been a huge fan of GivingTuesday since I first heard about it back in September, 2012 during a conference at Stanford. The Giving 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Why not record their story in honor of StoryCorps' National Day of Listening the day after Thanksgiving (November 27th). Will you be spending Thanksgiving with friends who tell great stories, a relative who has wonderful tales from "back in the day," or just someone special whose life you'd like to celebrate?

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AUGUST 8, 2022

For students, teachers, parents, and guardians across the nation, the arrival of August signals the end of summer vacation and the arrival of back-to-school season. National Back to School Month History. National Back to School Month History. How to celebrate National Back to School Month. Junior Achievement.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability.

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The Verge

JUNE 14, 2020

After four commercial publishers filed a lawsuit earlier this month, the Internet Archive ended its National Emergency Library program earlier than planned, the organization said in a blog post (via ArsTechnica ). million books for people unable to get to classrooms or libraries during the coronavirus pandemic.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 3, 2024

At DonorsChoose in New York City, a platform through which public schoolteachers submit “wish lists” for classroom and student supplies, GivingTuesday had an early start through a promo code sent to previous donors on Monday. The platform’s donors raised $1.2 Eastern, the giving totals at the Combined Federal Campaign reached $1,881,893. “As

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Nationally, 30% of all students, or nearly 15 million kids, were chronically absent during the 2021–22 school year, when in-person learning largely resumed. And two-thirds of all students attended schools where at least 20% of students were chronically absent , often resulting in slower progress for whole classrooms.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The classrooms have child-size boats and construction vehicles children can play on, and ceilings painted to resemble outer space. Creators of the Reggio Emilia approach to early learning, an educational philosophy that emphasizes child-led learning, even refer to the environment as the third teacher in a classroom.

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sgEngage

JULY 30, 2024

According to the National Center for Education Statistics , students older than 25 accounted for 23% of the undergraduates who enrolled in the U.S. When you model based on intent, institutional biases change, and you find and recruit students beyond those who are traditionally in your classroom. in fall 2022 and that number is growing.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

The National Association of College and Employers Job Outlook 2013 survey found that computer and information science degrees are among the most in-demand as of late, meaning it’s in your company’s best interest to nab talented computer science students before your competitors. Today’s interns are tomorrow’s full-time professionals.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Mary Dunaway leading a Tableau workshop In early 2024, Dr. Dunaway led a Tableau workshop for the Northeastern Hub of the National Data Science Alliance (NDSA). When I present at these workshops, it never fails that people are interested and want to leverage what I’m doing in their own classrooms,” she said. “I October 25, 2024

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Practice Critical Thinking The Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory can perform 10.51 Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills. quadrillion floating-point operations per second.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

"The United Nations Joint Inspection Body recently spoke to web professional in 40 UN agencies to identify what the most common problems are and how to fixed them. The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." "Hujambo from Tanzania!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

"The United Nations Joint Inspection Body recently spoke to web professional in 40 UN agencies to identify what the most common problems are and how to fixed them. The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." "Hujambo from Tanzania!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding future Epic Fellows like the school’s founder, Mama Lucy. Be sure to check out the Twitterkids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. Taking that process from individual level and extrapolating to national level." Photos of the slides.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

During National Hispanic Heritage Month in the U.S., Hispanic Heritage Foundation is an award-winning nonprofit that identifies, inspires, prepares and positions Latino leaders in the classroom, community and workforce to meet America’s priorities. Hispanic Heritage Foundation The. Voto Latino. Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Consider these attributes of great coaches for yourself; then see how they might apply to you, your team, classroom, company, or family. Kramer''s work has been featured on WFAN, ESPN, Fox, and CTV, as well as in Sports Illustrated , The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and other national publications.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

posted by Jen Nation Fall 2020 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. In high-performing, flexible organizations, this openness to productive change–inclusion–becomes the status quo,” write Scott Nielsen and Helena Huang in the National Civic Review. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

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. Another nonprofit furthering research behind games and learning is the Joan Ganz Cooney Center.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 4, 2011

About eighteen months ago, I was standing outside a Thai classroom in the open courtyard of an elementary school in Bangkok, watching from a second-story perch as Thai children "marched" in the center recreation area. Perched outside that classroom, I suddenly felt an overpowering sense of pride to have been born a U.S. on their own.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

With Bookshare, our student members can access and read the books they need—in the classroom, at home, and on the go—and have a fair opportunity to succeed at school just like their peers without disabilities. And we do this at a per-book cost less than one-tenth of the traditional approaches!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 2, 2012

Consider these attributes of great coaches for yourself; then see how they might apply to you, your team, classroom, company, or family. Kramer's work has been featured on WFAN, ESPN, Fox, and CTV, as well as in Sports Illustrated , The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and other national publications.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in a new chapter for virtual learning, giving a boost of attention to existing tools and spurring the creation of new services and use cases as students of all ages were ordered to stay home and stay out of classrooms. The obvious place for Atom was to start was online learning aimed at students.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In K-12 and university education, the focus has been on building better technology and content to help students stay engaged and continue learning even when they cannot be in their normal physical classrooms as schools, districts, governments and public health officials implement social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

During his speech this afternoon at the Service Nation Summit , Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) described being inspired to serve after hearing John F. The Semester of Service Act would allow high school juniors and seniors to spend more than a third of a semester outside of the classroom serving their community.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

While some teachers use Google Classroom, Gredu was created to work with Indonesia’s K-12 National Curriculum and Islamic Curriculum programs, used in both private and public schools. The startup is also developing new verticals, including software for preschools and university programs. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. How can you pursue innovation with games when teachers have the kinds of tests and classroom requirements now? Learning outside the classroom, what’s your opinion of games that support tangential learning? So how do you do that?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. National LGBTQ Task Force / Detroit, MI / $500. Fundraising & Grants.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

From creating digital learning opportunities and initiatives to protect girls’ mental well-being to securing national funding for education — the Champions we support are driving solutions to girls’ education challenges in their communities. . The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Camille Stewart Contributor Share on Twitter Camille Stewart is the White House Deputy National Cyber Director for Technology and Ecosystem Security. Thomas Peng Contributor Share on Twitter Thomas Peng is the Chief of Operations and Administration at the United States Peace Corps. Dear Tech Workers,   Careers are defined by moments.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Equal Opportunity Schools’ data-driven framework is advancing inclusion in schools by providing schools and districts data to build equity and anti-racism into their classrooms. . National Alliance to End Homelessness is also focused on this societal issue. Equitable Education .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. A wildlife charity, for example, might show National Geographic documentaries on climate change or an anti-racism group could screen “To Kill a Mockingbird” as part of its mission.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Operating in over 50 regions across the country, TFA finds, develops, and supports a diverse network of leaders who expand opportunity for children across classrooms, schools, and any sector or field that shapes the broader systems in which schools operate. Creating a Constituent-First Marketing Strategy.

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