Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, there are many just in the area of open source foundations: nonprofit organizations structured as social enterprises writing open source software for the benefit of society, with many examples in each of the five claimed areas.

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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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Tableau

JUNE 16, 2021

Enterprises are increasingly becoming data-driven—and requiring data literacy skills for employees in every part of the organization. We commissioned research by Forrester Consulting to help better understand the data literacy gap. The study shows that the data literacy gap is growing. Bridging the data literacy gap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And while I haven’t done an in-depth map of this space, I keep thinking that a network of intermediaries (people who teach skills, connect skilled volunteers, generate discussion — those data nerds ) is missing. (I I may be wrong, let me know in the comments).

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Bridge the data literacy gap for students in academia. In my many years as a scientist, I mentored trainees in data analysis and witnessed frustration, anxiety, and even productivity loss in students who lacked foundational data skills. We define data literacy as “the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data.”

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2022

Data skills are foundational in a digital world. The study, ‘ Building Data Literacy: The Key To Better Decisions, Greater Productivity And Data-Driven Organizations ’, found that despite increasing demand for data skills, inadequate training and investments have left business leaders with a false sense of security.

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2022

Data skills are foundational in a digital world. The study, ‘ Building Data Literacy: The Key To Better Decisions, Greater Productivity And Data-Driven Organizations ’, found that despite increasing demand for data skills, inadequate training and investments have left business leaders with a false sense of security.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Although most people are familiar with the current trend of growing amounts of data, there is a skills gap in data literacy - defined as the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data. To help address this demand we have developed two courses that provide foundational data skills for all learners.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

Organizations can also instill a data culture by promoting data literacy—because in order for employees to participate in a data culture, they first need to speak the language of data. Here’s how organizations can improve their data literacy with a four-step action plan: 1. Data literacy involves more than having a set of skills.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In fact, Tableau recently commissioned Forrester to investigate the data literacy gap, and according to The Great Data Literacy Gap: Demand for Data Skills Exceeds Supply , only 66% of surveyed academic decision-makers rated data literacy and skills as important for students to learn to graduate, compared to 81% of recruiters.

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Tableau

AUGUST 9, 2021

Although digital competencies like computer literacy and data skills have grown in importance in recent years, the need for digital skills has never been greater. Educators must develop programs to address the digital skills gap and teach digital literacy. Forrester conducted two online surveys to explore this topic.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In fact, Tableau recently commissioned Forrester to investigate the data literacy gap, and according to The Great Data Literacy Gap: Demand for Data Skills Exceeds Supply , only 66% of surveyed academic decision-makers rated data literacy and skills as important for students to learn to graduate, compared to 81% of recruiters.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2012

She has worked in training and education for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WebJunction, the Public Library Association, the Northeast Kansas Library System, and more. Learn more about e-reader teaching tips during TechSoup's free 30-minute webinar. Keeping up with e-reader technology can feel overwhelming.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2014

They are keys to web literacy and innovation. There are many organizations fueling the maker movement and teaching web literacy. The Mozilla Foundations Webmaker project is doing both. Alan Rosenblatt. Director of Digital Strategy. What do words and phrases like Webmaker, Maker Parties, and Thimble have in common?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

We told the NHRC staff and the MacArthur Foundation, a long-time supporter of the Benetech Human Rights Program, that we would be happy to return for more training when the NHRC was ready. The MacArthur Foundation provided key support for the project by not only financing our work, but also funding computer literacy training for NHRC staff.

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Tableau

AUGUST 9, 2021

Although digital competencies like computer literacy and data skills have grown in importance in recent years, the need for digital skills has never been greater. Educators must develop programs to address the digital skills gap and teach digital literacy. Forrester conducted two online surveys to explore this topic.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment. Route 66 Literacy Our newest project is Route 66 Literacy, and it includes a demonstration site that anyone can try out.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. If your nonprofit is seeking funding, it’s critical to identify the foundations whose interests and funding priorities align with your own. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on. Mellon Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

The Schwab Foundation hosted a wrap up session on Sunday with twenty of the social entrepreneurs attending the Forum. One corporate chief executive offered extensive in-kind support for our digital literacy enterprises that provide the disabled access to talking books and teach reading to teenagers and adults who are not yet literate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

For the past five years, I’ve been teaching social media workshops for nonprofits and lately doing deeper dives on the techniques of listening both for nonprofits and in my role as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation. Our session covered: Why listening offers value. Six Ways To Make Listening A Practice.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

The fund is being administrated by the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Founding donors to the fund include Google Fiber , the Illig Family Foundation, Sprint , Global Prairie , Polsinelli Law , and J.E. Another demonstration of city’s reinvention is Kansas City headquartered Kauffman Foundation’s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

We have an opportunity to receive a couple of OLPCs for our literacy program at our farming project (we school the kids of farmers who we train to farm the land, sell vegetables, proceeds go into micro loan fund.). If you don't want to donate through Facebook, here are some other ways to wish me happy birthday.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Just as a professional who takes a job abroad needs to immerse herself in the native tongue, businesses who value data literacy need ways to immerse their people in the language of data. . How to foster data communities and literacy. Data communities in a work-from-home world. Not everyone will reach the mountain top, and that’s okay.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 8, 2022

JA teaches students financial literacy, professional skills, and everything else they need to become independent adults in both in-school and after-school programs. Kids in Need Foundation. The Kids in Need Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting equity in schools. Teach for America. Junior Achievement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. Teaching should be used judiciously to ensure it's done in the right moments, supports the goals of the business, and is grounded in fact. Coaching is fundamental to the skill set of all leaders and is foundational to the manager/employee relationship. Fight entropy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

“Instead of understanding blockchain technology specifically from its for its utility within the African context, there’s an opportunity to use it as a foundational trade technology to make sure capital got to people’s hands and last mile.” While shuttling between Nigeria (his hometown) and the U.S.,

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Tableau

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Just as a professional who takes a job abroad needs to immerse herself in the native tongue, businesses who value data literacy need ways to immerse their people in the language of data. . How to foster data communities and literacy. Data communities in a work-from-home world. Not everyone will reach the mountain top, and that’s okay.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

As you make new hires and consider ongoing employee development, keep in mind that data literacy skills will be foundational to every role at every level of an organization in 2021 and beyond and will critically shape who survives and thrives as leaders going forward. . Determine what you’ll track moving forward (e.g.,

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

This session featured panelists Nicole Roy Tobin from Deloitte ; Heidi Jark , Fifth Third Foundation , and Nicole Robinson , Mondel?z z International Foundation discussing Millennial Leadership. Fifth Third Foundation provides quarterly opportunities at work for staff to volunteer, often organized philanthropy efforts.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

The study reveals that current leaders in the local nonprofit sector believe the skills most needed in the nonprofit workforce are financial literacy, communication (verbal and writing skills), knowledge of laws pertaining to the nonprofit sector, information technology, volunteer management, and donor cultivation. All You Need is Love.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They achieve this through transformative digital advocacy, digital literacy, and tech certification training. Byte Back offers three main tracks for their learners: Computer Foundations : A beginner track that teachers learners their way around the digital age with must-have computer skills. community partners.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. Organizations that are not built on a solid foundation of trust will struggle to compete against those that have consciously invested in fostering trust within and across teams. Set and execute strategy (level appropriate). Create and communicate clarity. Fight entropy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. Organizations that are not built on a solid foundation of trust will struggle to compete against those that have consciously invested in fostering trust within and across teams. Set and execute strategy (level appropriate). Create and communicate clarity. Fight entropy.

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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. Yas is the Director of Sisters Empowering Sisters (the girls program of Girl’s Best Friend Foundation). Yas(min) Ahmed, 25, Chicago, IL What makes her REALLY hot?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

MacArthur Foundation. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. National Science Foundation. Emphasis is on digital literacy. It is also no small feat to get traditional foundation board to agree to fund game initiatives. Each funder gave an overview gave an overview of their program.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Virtual advocacy opportunities — Teach volunteers to be strong advocates for your cause. For example, if your nonprofit specializes in teaching financial literacy, you can set up an advice line for community members to call in with their financial questions.

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