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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age.

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Why Kansas City Has a Shot at Bridging the Digital Divide

Tech Soup

Pew reports that the groups least likely to want to use the Internet are senior citizens, disabled people, monolingual Spanish speakers, adults with less than a high school education, and those living in households earning less than $30,000 per year. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries'

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Tips for monetizing your nonprofit work

ASU Lodestar Center

If your nonprofit works to teach adults to read, for example, you are definitely working on a natural capital issue. In the US alone the effects of low literacy cost at least $225 billion annually in crime, loss of tax revenue due to unemployment, and non-productivity in the workforce. However, this is only the first step.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

A participant from Virginia working in education explained: Because of COVID and the lockdown, our population of 18-to-24-year-olds exploded in the last six months… We’ve never had this many young adults in our program before. And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers.

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American India Foundation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AIF is definitely part of the social entrepreneurship movement with a results oriented culture that appeals to the tech entrepreneurs who are some of the main funders. This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Solutionary Women: Mei-ying Ho

Have Fun - Do Good

We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. Our political education starts on a very basic level by identifying the systems of oppression that we live under here in the United States. So I’m only 26.

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52 Nonprofit Event Ideas That People Will Love

Neon CRM

Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event.

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