EveryAction

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Launched in 2012 by music legend Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, the Born This Way Foundation develops programs that support its mission to connect young people in safe ways and empowering them with the skills and opportunities that will inspire them to create a kinder and braver world. Children's Literacy Initiative.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of government, DEI, education, arts, health, cultural institutions, and annual reports for corporate communications. Distinction – Website for Education.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

When you’re busy working towards fulfilling your nonprofit’s mission, it can be easy to forgo the time needed to invest in “auxiliary” tasks that build your skills and fuel your mission. These were skills that would have made the transition after COVID-19 began much smoother. What new skills do you want to cultivate?

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Candid

JUNE 27, 2024

Women are disproportionately affected in areas including health care, sustainable agriculture, forced displacement, economic development, literacy, democracy, and mass incarceration While efforts that ignore gender will be limited in effectiveness, those that address gender likely will have ripple effects into other areas.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Bush, Ph.D. Bush, Ph.D. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Defining Digital Literacy. But first, what exactly is digital literacy?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

The answer lies in education. For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. Moreover, many parents feel. We need to find a way to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. He suggests these goals: 1.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

The Early Learning Lab , Frontiers of Innovation , and New Profit , along with partners Joan Ganz Cooney Center and TechSoup, are working together to build the technology capacity of the early childhood education field. Media Mentors: Building Literacy Skills for the Digital Age. In short, young children need media mentors.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Fort Meyers, FL/ $445. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / TBD. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Research / @SSIReview.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2016

Nurture Your Photoshop Skills. Fertilize your fundamental Adobe Photoshop skills at Wes Holing's 60-minute webinar for advanced Photoshop beginners on Thursday, March 10. Attend this webinar and help your Photoshop skills bloom this spring. Sprout Your Digital Literacy Training Program. Help Your Data Skills Flower.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2024

Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, legacy systems, data literacy, and access to skills. Educational institutions have an abundance of data, but they are often challenged by making sense of it in the most effective ways possible.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Although the challenges differ by region, the outcome is the same everywhere: young people are simply not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's workforce. "There's a need to grow a highly educated workforce from within," Mendoza said. century tech or business skills?

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. Relying too heavily on technology means that those who lack the resources, language skills, and savvy to use technology to its full potential are left behind.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

Since then, the Pew Research Center began an in-depth study on how Americans view privacy and sharing of personal information. Educating your staff about best security practices is also important for protecting your organization and constituents' privacy. Educate Your Constituents. Share with us in the comments.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

Since then, the Pew Research Center began an in-depth study on how Americans view privacy and sharing of personal information. Educating your staff about best security practices is also important for protecting your organization and constituents' privacy. Educate Your Constituents. Share with us in the comments.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

Although this year, perhaps more than others, we should maybe call it “Words to Avoid …and some other words to pause before using, do additional research, and then decide whether or not to use.” When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” It’s that time again—Words to Avoid, 2023.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in three sessions: a Pecha Kucha design blitz, a dialogue on bridging online/onsite connections, and a discussion of the IMLS 21st Century Skills report. Without getting too deeply in the weeds, 21st Century Skills is a phrase that has gained a lot of traction in US policy circles around education and workforce development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

Attending this press briefing will grant you access to a panel discussion and one-on-one time with some of the greatest minds and most influential s in the fields of technology, digital media, education and learning. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The John D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. Educators need to intervene and make creative alliances.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Subvert the rules explore the limits of system propose alternate responses Great skills for social change. Education is a context for a change. Gaming is literacy. Researcher working with kids disabilities. That's where dancing takes place. Kids can go online an build stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Talked about the openness to games and the need for research. Working on a series of research studies on the benefits of games. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. New set of research methods for this. Emphasis is on digital literacy. MacArthur Foundation. Microsoft Corporation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

research, a survey of the giving habits of the social media savvy, over at Mashable. You need to practice talking to people online about your cause; these aren’t skills that more traditional orgs have in their DNA. She references the work of Jennifer Aaker at Stanford University and her research that supports this notion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

I immediately saw the potential of being able to connect to my friends and family across distances and being able to read news and research in my other languages and from different perspectives than the media in the US provided. Multicultural and global education is a must in this century. How have you used these tools in education?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

According to research by Adobe, only 3 percent of people find charities by following social media links. Now seems like a good time for nonprofits to educate their constituents about the privacy issues surrounding these and other smart objects. Forty percent find charities through plain old web searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate. We had a group and teams with mixed level of skills and that be a little difficult. How to break down the skills with activities? First, as with a lot of online facilitation/collaboration it can be frustrating and a little chaotic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

They understand why organic farming is important or why school gardens, why they should be a part of education. Abby Rosenheck: Well in San Francisco, people are pretty lucky because there is a good amount of training and resources out here: there's a compost educator gardening training that you can do. So I can feel things changing.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness. Chicago Foundation For Women.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness. Chicago Foundation For Women.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. The project has been so successful at raising student reading skills that they hope to provide similar services to their non-disabled students as well. This event was very exciting, as we have never previously received federal funding for Bookshare.org.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We love doing them, bring on great guest, speakers, totally free, totally educational. But if not, this is a great way for us to connect in a safe and educational space. So earlier I mentioned maybe a parent who took English as a second language classes or maybe they got their GED or they took those computer literacy programs.

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