Cloud 4 Good

MAY 31, 2022

Students move ahead by mastering content, not by spending a prescribed number of hours in a classroom. Currently free for California residents, Calbright prepares students to earn industry-valued certificates, instead of traditional degrees, and its programs can be completed in less than a year. .

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Cloud for Good has launched Talent for Good , a large-scale talent apprenticeship program designed specifically to benefit the Salesforce ecosystem. More importantly, apprentices are hired as full-time employees whereas interns are often unpaid, or at best part-time or temporary employees. What’s not working?

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Who they are: The Veterans Heritage Project’s mission is to connect students with veterans in order to honor their legacies and help develop future leaders, while bridging the gap between military and civilian life. The large, blue “Donate” button directs visitors to a form with one-time and recurring giving options.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recently attended the US launch event for Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API). It’s a way of interacting with other people, other places, and other times from anywhere you are.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Similar to the funders in my previous post on education , the organizations listed below focus their efforts on activities inside and outside of the classroom. Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . Burkle Foundation.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

To give you an example of how to do this, a recent client was having problems telling the story of the marine conservation program they were building. Finally, after hearing a lot of nuts and bolts from them about numerous programs and processes around which I couldn’t quite wrap my brain, I said “Tell me why I should give in one sentence.”

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Last year, bloggers big and small raised $270,000 to provide 65,000 students with the resources needed to learn. At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. There are 12,000 to 14,000 classroom project requests on the site at a time.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

It makes me want to give to this nonprofit all over again every time I look at it! Here are a few more reasons why taking the time to write an effective donation receipt will pay off: First impressions are everything. You make it easier for the donor at tax time. or Could your gift have come at a more important time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up. www.enteef.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Check out more highlights from the Festival program here.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

PowerMyLearning is a new, free online resource that has educational games, videos, and other activities for elementary, middle-school, and high school-aged students. I have to say that this turned out to be a pretty time consuming piece to write because the games are pretty fun and surprisingly high quality. How It Works.

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Everyaction

APRIL 25, 2018

In this blog series, we'll be focusing on how Higher Educational Institutions use technology to communicate with and engage their students and alumni. First up, we're covering the Student Activities office - stay tuned to hear about Admissions, Alumni Engagement, and more! Track and manage students, groups, and activities effectively.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2016

Anne Kotleba Lecturer/ Program Coordinator, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Last time we introduced Anne, a new lecturer in the School of Community Resources & Development and coordinator of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance and the Certified Nonprofit Professional Credential. What events do you have planned this year?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The weekend of September 17 th -18 th , the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Student Association (NLASA) held its annual retreat at R-C Scout Ranch in in Payson, AZ. 32 students attended to discuss and identify goals for the upcoming year, build community, and eat s’mores around the bonfire! I hope that someday soon, I will be able to.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2013

For a very long time faith-based 501(c)(3) charitable organizations have been in a special category and were often barred from foundation grants and corporate donations even though there has never been a strictly legal reason for this. Jay said that they support 30 PC in offices, classroom, and a school computer lab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

It’s that time of year when we are ready to open our hearts in gratitude and do good things for others. I’d like to highlight two wonderful campaigns that could be wonderful ways to show your gratitude. With $250, you can make room for a student in a classroom. Happy Thanksgiving! How will do good for others?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

10X: ten times the impact. How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger! Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine. That’s what’s been on my mind lately. Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. In 2010, I was a fresh young Ally in ASU’s Lodestar Center Public Allies program. This particular bench resides in a classroom in a small school in Moshi. Parents would often appear near the door of this classroom.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. He was wrong.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

These kids over the course of the next 18 months did not really fully comprehend that they were learning basic social, emotional, and civic competencies because they were moving and dancing the entire time." -- Sara Potler Sara Potler is the Founder and CEO of Dance 4 Peace. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C.,

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 29, 2014

posted by Lyn McDonough , Program Coordinator Sr. Student seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential from over 40 campuses across the country attend workshops, hear from national leaders and provide the host community with opportunities to learn from student case studies.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. He was wrong.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering. Connect and combine things in unusual ways Example: She gave her students an assignment to combine two household items and create something with a new function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. Apple calls this program “one to one” learning, meaning not one instructor but one computer per child.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about education programs in Second Life. I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. Teams of Harvard Law students enrolled in Evidence will serve as the lawyers.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We like to think that most nonprofits are concerned about their reach toward individuals who might struggle to connect with their offerings, at least in the best of times. If the pandemic forced us onto new and unfamiliar ground, now is the time to assess and balance how technologies have affected our reach, for better and for worse.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With a youth-oriented fundraiser, you can raise money for educational trips, sports equipment, classroom supplies, art supplies, musical instruments, or any other cause. To make things easier for your supporters, set up an online registration form where they can pay ahead of time. Straw Draw. kids that have food allergies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Anne Kotleba Lecturer/ Program Coordinator, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Anne Kotleba is our newest staff member, joining us as a lecturer in the School of Community Resources & Development and coordinator of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance and the Certified Nonprofit Professional Credential. Meet Anne. Any secondary interests?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2012

As students return to school this and next month and buy their required reading books, principals, instructional coaches, department chairs, lead teachers, and teachers hopefully will have read this summer as their required reading Paul Bambrick-Santoyo’s new book, Leverage Leadership – A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools. “As

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Catchafire : Time-sensitive requests for short-term projects in our active, virtual volunteer pool can assist with items such as email marke ting setup to spread awareness about health and safety, consultation on remote best practices, and much more. There are i ndividual and corporate programs available to participate! .

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

The Ordyslexie program, in combination with Les Ateliers du Bocage, has helped more than 1,500 dyslexic French students become more independent and confident in school. This program has improved academic performance and is loved by both students and parents. (Please visit the site to view this video).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I’ll be talking about Gen Z donors and why nonprofits need to engage them in their fundraising and programs. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. Gen Z Uses Digital Tools for Social Good, Not Social Currency.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. He was wrong.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 17, 2012

One piece of advice that aspiring nonprofit professionals should consider is to participate in an internship program. I have since had the opportunity to work at multiple nonprofit organizations as an intern, where I learned what I was good at, improved on many of my skills, and learned what makes a good internship program.

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Growing your monthly giving program in particular fosters a reliable revenue stream that can carry your organization through challenging times. These programs give nonprofit supporters a way to spread out their giving over time, which can be easier on their finances than contributing a single larger gift.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists. I first heard the phrase ten years ago from a long-time nonprofit technology colleague, Andrew Gianni. He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings.

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