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Earth Day 2025: Detroit plants sequoias to clean the air—and save the trees

Fast Company Tech

The project on four lots will not only replace long-standing blight with majestic trees, but could also improve air quality and help preserve the trees that are native to Californias Sierra Nevada, where they are threatened by ever-hotter wildfires. They grow them in the classrooms and plant them around the schools.

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Listening to teachers to support students impacted by COVID-19 

Candid

To get students back on track, we need to get resources immediately into classrooms, stop shifting the financial burdens of education onto teachers, and enable teachers to engage with students in innovative ways. Since 2020, DonorsChoose has partnered with 10 states to allocate a total of $100 million in ESSER funding to classrooms.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. in Sparks, Nevada. This nonprofit has been running for over 20 years. There are rural programs like New2U Computers Disability Resources.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

Tech Soup

Las Vegas, Nevada: Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: It's Not That Hard to Be Secure. Las Vegas, Nevada: QuickBooks Made Easy. Reno, Nevada: QuickBooks Made Easy. Nairobi, Kenya: Mobile Solar Computer Classroom Project in Kenya. . ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Tuesday, November 1, 2016. Kampala, Uganda.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Join us at ILA to learn how to break through the challenges of shifting practices, advocate for all students, and make a difference in and out of the classroom. International Literary Association / New Orleans, LA / TBD. You’ll leave feeling motivated and ready to change the quality of instruction in your school district or community!

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Webby Special Achievement: Google Classroom. Student : WELCOME by Dyamant Pictures; Rainbow Rodeo by University of Nevada, Reno - Reynolds School of Journalism. Webby Special Achievement: Miley Cyrus for her Instagram Live show Bright Minded: Live with Miley. Webby Special Achievement: Invisible Hands.

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