TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The funding was led by Seae Ventures , with participation from Fiserv , Mass Mutual , Citizens Financial Group , Astia Fund , NBA stars Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony, and actors Anthony Anderson and Lance Gross. million to teach financial literacy to kids. Goalsetter raises $3.9 ”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Education and literacy – 5%. 15) 9% donate stock and/or mutual funds to NPOs, NGOs, and charities and 6% donate to Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). Human and social services – 8%. Environment and conservation – 7%. Arts, cultural preservation, and humanities – 6%. Women and girls – 4%.

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Charity Village

APRIL 5, 2023

ABC Life Literacy Canada’s 2023 award season officially opened on April 3! This year’s awards include the Canada Life Literacy Innovation Award (LIA) and the HSBC Family Literacy First Fund (FLF Fund). The Canada Life Literacy Innovation Award is made possible thanks to the generosity and commitment of Canada Life.

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Charity Village

JULY 20, 2023

What if you could buy advertising at 65% off with the added bonus of supporting literacy programming in Canada? Ad space is sold at an incredible 65% off the rate card price with funds raised supporting ABC Life Literacy Canada. appeared first on CharityVillage.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 31, 2025

As a funder, you probably wish you could fund them all. To avoid wading through funding applications that dont meet your program criteriaand wasting the time of those nonprofits submitting those applicationsyou should include an eligibility quiz before the formal application. What is an Eligibility Quiz for a Funding Application?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

With Kikoff, the pair aim to give people not only a way to build a credit history, but also a way to increase consumer financial literacy. Other companies with similar goals that have raised venture funding as of late include Tomo Credit and Welcome Tech , among others. Image Credits: Kikoff.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. The first grants are to be awarded later this year.

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Candid

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The money from French Gates is mostly being disbursed through donor-advised funds (DAFs); in the spirit of helping boys and girls, men and women, my new DAF is called Rise Together. For example, we need initiatives to encourage more boys and men into HEAL professions (health, education, administration, and literacy).

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Charity Village

APRIL 20, 2023

What if you could buy advertising at 65% off with the added bonus of supporting literacy programming in Canada? Funds raised support ABC Life Literacy Canada’s essential literacy programming and educational […] The post The ABC Media Sale for literacy is launching on Monday April 24, 2023 appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Multiple senators called the secretary of education asking for explanations of how earmarked funding ended up in the hands of “nobodies from California” who had never lobbied Congress. Bookshare today is part of a broader effort by Benetech’s Global Literacy Program to improve the lives and learning of students with the biggest challenges.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Strategic donor engagement, transparent reporting, and meaningful community involvement create the foundation for sustainable funding that powers long-term homelessness initiatives in underserved areas. These gaps create extra hurdles for individuals experiencing housing insecurity, particularly in managing income and building stability.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. and James L. Knight Foundation, our SocialCoding4Good initiative will kick off later this year. with the books they need for educational success.

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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. Funding Priority: Education. Global Fund For Children. Daniels Fund.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Similarly, in the nonprofit sector, well-funded organizations are already leveraging AI to increase efficiency and reduce burnout, while smaller nonprofitsoften serving the most marginalized communitiesare being left behind. AI can also lighten the workload of educators while ensuring students AI literacy. Build AI literacy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Don’t be afraid to reach out to event sponsors, grant funders and major donors to see if they’d be willing to work with you on how unspent funds are allocated, such as event table sponsorships. If fundraising via events, instead find creative ways to continue to raise funds virtually.”. “We don’t wait for the crisis to be over.”.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

An organizational plan, the equivalent of a private-sector business plan, lays out a nonprofits mission, goals, programs, and strategies for raising and managing funds. They may feel pressured to expand into areas valued by donors to secure funding. Clearly define the social problem the organization is working to solve.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

million in seed funding, led by Goat Capital, with participation by Liquid2 Ventures and Capital X. The biggest issue facing data teams today is literacy,” Jiang told TechCrunch. As such, he intends to use the new funding to build out features, services and infrastructure that customers are asking for.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 2, 2006

We just launched the Route 66 Literacy web site. I really appreciate the funding we have had for Route 66 from the Severns and Special Hope Foundations: it's made it possible for us to go this far. We also just received news of some additional funding and are continuing to develop the technology further.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

She was already working with a nonprofit group of women business owners, and the more she gathered feedback about the ease of accessing capital — 70% told her, “No, I’m not sure how to get funding” — the more she realized small businesses needed a more simplified way to get capital and business finance resources. “We

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading. For veterans with visual impairments, traumatic brain injuries or other disabilities, reading standard print is difficult, if not impossible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

But soon the company plans to expand its platform to include a passive investing product (robo funds) and crypto. Founders Fund Partner Matias Van Thienen said his firm had been looking for an investing and savings platform in Latin America that could offer global equities with a high-quality product and a suitable regulatory approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. This is good, basic digital literacy principles that have been taught by educators and librarians taught in the early 2000′s and continue today. He suggests these goals: 1.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2011

Many groups received BTOP funding. How to Evaluate Your Digital Literacy Program Thursday, June 30, 11 a.m. computer-related programs, those who support digital literacy programs, or BTOP. To bolster their efforts, the. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided $7.2 billion to expand access to. their computer skills.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

To continue with its mission, Landis raised $165 million in a combination of debt and Series A equity funding. This latest funding brings Landis’ total debt and equity raised to date to $182 million. This latest funding brings Landis’ total debt and equity raised to date to $182 million.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Amira Learning is helping young students improve their reading literacy with an AI-powered tutor, while CodeSignal has built a platform for tech workers to pick up new technical skills and practice soft skills through AI-powered simulations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. In addition, we acknowledged the critical support of Bernie Newcomb who helped fund our International Bookshare service.

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Charity Village

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Nonprofits, charities, and grassroots organizations interested in using the literacy programs can apply for funding. The post New grant to implement children’s literacy programming appeared first on CharityVillage. The grant covers costs related to […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

The $11 million in funding comes at what could be a hockey-stick moment for Amira’s adoption. (A note on privacy: Angel assured me that all information is totally private and by default is considered to belong to the district. “You’d have to be insane to take advantage of it. We’d be out of business in a nanosecond.”).

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

But some general knowledge about financial literacy will bode well. Take advantage of National Literacy Month. Simply getting new members to understand how to read a finance statement is another first step to financial literacy for board members. Take advantage of National Literacy Month. Start at the recruitment stage.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 3, 2010

Successful grant writing depends on finding the right funding opportunity. You need to locate an agency interested in funding your project, but where do you start? There are probably a zillion places to search for information about grant funding opportunities and you could spend countless hours doing so.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2012

In doing so, one statement that resonates with everyone is “No one funds technology.” I’d like to share what I’ve learned so that you might glean something from my experience to help you get the technology funds needed to achieve your mission. Let’s assume you plan to start an educational program to help children with literacy.

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Charity Village

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This open call for proposals will fund projects that increase digital media and civic literacy, help Canadians identify content […] The post Government of Canada will support organizations to counter harmful disinformation appeared first on CharityVillage.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

In Southeast Asia, startups in this space that have raised funding over the past few months include Ajaib , Bibit and Stashaway —and that’s just a (very) partial list. Infina works with financial partners like Dragon Capital, ACB Capital, Mirae Asset Fund Management and Viet Capital Asset Management.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

1 This study, Financial Literacy and Knowledge in the Nonprofit Sector (PDF) , "engaged a random sample of primarily human service nonprofits, as well as health, civic, environmental, arts, and education nonprofits." And there should be board policies about how reserve funds can be used and the authorization for such use.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This event was very exciting, as we have never previously received federal funding for Bookshare.org. We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007.

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