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Student-founded Develop for Good surpasses 25,000 volunteer hours connecting students with nonprofits

TechCrunch

This coincidence of needs among both students and nonprofits helped accelerate the matching that Develop for Good offers. As the program has expanded, Zhu and Aggarwal have added a more formal mentorship component to the program to help guide students through their work. So far, the program has worked on 50 projects to date.

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Fulbright Award Winner Closes Data Skills Gap for Students and Teachers

Tableau

Danika Harrod October 22, 2024 - 5:46pm Larissa Amoroso Vice President, Tableau Community, Tableau Tableau Academic Ambassador Dr. Mary Dunaway has spent years empowering students and educators with skills such as data visualization. Now, she's taking her passion for data to the global stage, having been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S.

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MagniLearn uses AI to help students learn new languages, raises $2.8M

TechCrunch

There’s nothing easy about learning a language, and so it’s also maybe no surprise that there are plenty of startups that want to make life easier for students. One of the latest entrants to this market is MagniLearn , an AI-centric startup that provides students with individualized lessons based on their progress.

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NoRedInk raises $50 million Series B to help students become better writers

TechCrunch

While those complications don’t exactly scream for a tech solution, NoRedInk , a San Francisco-based startup, has spent nearly a decade trying to help students get better at their writing through software. This is all to say that writing, even for those who love writing, is a deeply human art built on top of nonobvious rules.

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Unrestricted: The Gifts That Keep On Giving

Bloomerang

Specifying majors and home towns closed the doors for many deserving students. They expect management to exercise good judgment and achieve the strongest possible return on their investment. Leading advancement of three institutions of higher education, I can tell you that scholarships with very narrow awarding criteria drove us crazy.

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Uniting the world in the classroom: How AI breaks barriers in a Belgian school

Microsoft AI

His school, with students from 70 different nationalities, achieved remarkable reading progress in just two months. Groffen's team uses Copilot for lesson planning, Microsoft Forms for exercises, and Reflect for emotional discussions.

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Simple Ways To Reduce Virtual Fatigue for Nonprofit Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Introduction to the series from Computer and Text Neck Stretching Exercises by Desk Yogi. This video by Dr. Baxter Bell offers some exercises to help relieve and prevent neck pain. It comes from Eric Jenssen , a teacher, who had his students leave the zoom call mid-class. Photo by Eric Janssen. He made them do it.

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