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10 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a follow-up to 25 Online Gift Stores That Benefit Nonprofit s , below are 10 holiday gift programs that benefit nonprofits. Gifts range from symbolic adopt-an-acre of a national park gifts to funding a classroom project in a low-income community.

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Meta-funded program teaches tweens about online exploitation

Mashable Tech

The content offers videos, scripted lesson plans, and interactive classroom activities. Adults can access the educational materials for free. The goal is to help young people learn about personal boundaries, safe relationships, and how to ask for help.

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Instagram working with schools to take action against bullying, gossip accounts

Mashable Tech

For years, educators and parents have implored Instagram to address student bullying and harassment that often starts on the company's platform and later shows up in the classroom. Now the platform, which is owned by Meta , is rolling out a program that allows educators to directly report safety issues like bullying directly to Instagram.

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Teaching with Tech: The Incredible—and Inevitable—Evolution of the Digital Classroom

Byte Technology

Consider some of these facts: • In 1996 only 14 percent of classrooms had Internet access; 13 years later 93 percent were wired into the World Wide Web. Today 48 states support online learning programs, and 95 percent of institutions of higher learning offer online classes.

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13 Students Graduate ITWorks Fall 2013 Program

TechImpact

In a classroom decked out with green, blue and orange balloons sat 13 young adults and a sea of their family and friends. It’s the December 19 graduation of the Fall 2013 cohort of the Information Technology Workforce Program (“ITWorks”) program. ITWorks students graduate December 2013. The journey starts here.”.

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Back to School: New Tech for the Classroom of the Future

Byte Technology

Featuring a wide field of view and highly intuitive head tracking, both connect to their respective devices and operating systems and, because they’re comfortable and light, are perfect in a classroom setting of antsy kids.

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New on SSIR: A New Tool for Digital Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

Encourage volunteers, program officers, donors, or other community members to become social reporters and document events in their neighborhood. Do you have a hyperlocal online network/space? Encourage community members to join, follow, or share their own related media, giving them a way to participate in and connect with the campaign.