Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Hydra Mendoza, the San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner and the Mayor's Education and Family Services Advisor, provided some sobering statistics about the opportunity gap in San Francisco and worldwide unemployment. "There's a need to grow a highly educated workforce from within," Mendoza said.

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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. And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers. and Canada about their technology use. Who are these people we talked with?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reports that the main reason they don’t go online is because they don’t think the Internet is relevant to them. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries' So why is Kansas City investing more money on digital inclusion?

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2016

In 2011 researchers found that the average shark off the coast of Palau was worth approximately $1.9 If your nonprofit works to teach adults to read, for example, you are definitely working on a natural capital issue. For example, say your nonprofit provides educational programming for kids in your community.

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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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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. The past five years I have been teaching Spanish at an Elementary School and serve as the school???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

The Pew Research Center has released a research report called “ The Future of Digital Life and Well-Being.” Pew Research Center recently released the full collection of anecdotes and stories shared by experts about their personal experiences with digital life. Education tool. 11, 2017, and Jan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year. This August they will co-teach a workshop on memoir, “The World Outside-The World Within, Living and Writing Your Story," at the Leaven Center in Lyons, MI. You can subscribe to her blog here.

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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 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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2006

Rachel can teach you how to make biodiesel, how to convert your car to run on straight vegetable oil, and how to fix your car too. Their findings are captured in a video they made last year with Beyondmedia Education , Respect Me, Don’t Media Me Anne Elizabeth Moore, 35, Chicago, IL What makes her REALLY hot?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. They understand why organic farming is important or why school gardens, why they should be a part of education.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We love doing them, bring on great guest, speakers, totally free, totally educational. And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Today is by no means an exception.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. From my perspective the line wasn’t between libraries and museums but public-facing and private/researcher-facing organizations.

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