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Record Revenue, Double Digit Hike For GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

DonorsChoose in New York City got off to an early start through a promo code sent to previous donors on Monday. DonorsChoose, which links “wish lists” for classroom and student supplies submitted by public school teachers, set a $5 million goal for the day. Due in part to a 50% match, the organization generated $5.5

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New on SSIR: A New Tool for Digital Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

It’s been a few weeks now; I’ve used it to share photos from a work trip to Portland, Maine, and to explore my neighborhood in New York. I was so energized by the tool—both its current functionality and its potential for future application—that I downloaded the mobile (Android) version and started testing it on the spot.

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Litnerd streams live actors into the classroom to help kids better connect with reading

TechCrunch

Litnerd , a company out of New York City, wants to try something new. This is when I realized that if we truly want to disrupt K-12 (esp K-5) education, we need a solution that works from the outside in – being part of classroom time and funded by schools.” As of 2019, roughly a third of U.S.

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Melbourne-based edtech startup Vivi raises $20M to accelerate overseas expansion in race to reach 1M classrooms

TechCrunch

The US, thus, remains a rich market for edtech companies like Vivi, which offers wireless presentation and screen mirroring technology to over 40,000 classrooms around the world, with the plan of reaching one million learning spaces in the next five years.

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GivingTuesday Seems To Have Started Strong

The NonProfit Times

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

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The most innovative companies in education in 2025

Fast Company Tech

In fact, some of the new professional certificates that Coursera introduced in 2024 feature GenAI content from companies like Meta, Microsoft, and IBM. Coursera also worked with New York States Department of Labor last year to provide free access to certificate programs for displaced workers.

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Beijing School for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These were quite familiar to folks like Frank Simpson of the Lavelle School in New York and Miki Jordan of the Junior Blind of America in Los Angeles. We visited the English language classroom. So, in Hong Kong and in Beijing we saw sensory stimulation rooms for these children.