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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Our goal is to make four critical supporting points: • The term “Social enterprise” is descriptive. • “Social enterprise” is generic. • “Social enterprise” is in wide use in Trademark classes covering computer software and services to business and society. • The subject application is against the public interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem.

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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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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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Tableau

JUNE 11, 2022

According to a recently released Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Tableau about data literacy and culture in global enterprises, organizations that have a companywide mandate to their data literacy training have higher employee satisfaction levels with training offerings than those that focus at the team or department level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

As social media managers and nonprofit leaders, we’re living in an age of connectedness with a goal of empowering our users, engaging and mobilizing them for the greater good. Our missions are diverse, yet we have the common goal of raising awareness of the work we’re doing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Speaking of the press, it is clear that they really get my overarching goal: to engage more of the tech community in serving the 90% of humanity we haven't been focusing on (yet). 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But how will you know the answer if you don’t set up a test and use measurement and data to help you answer it. This is called “data literacy” — setting up a hypothesis and a way to measure it – and analyzing the results and deciding how to improve. First Thing First: What’s our Goal?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Originally created to teach kids and teenagers financial literacy, Goalsetter is expanding its reach to more people with savings and investment management tools. Goalsetter raises $15 million to go B2B with children’s financial literacy app.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Note from Beth: I made a personal goal for myself to get past my dislike of spreadsheets and become more fluent. First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. Why get good at Excel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Since I'm going to be teaching the Listening Module for the WeAreMedia workshop in February, I'm going to write up some step-by-steps on how to do this with different monitoring tools. Social Listening Literacy Skills. Start typing in keywords related to your listening goals. . I'm paraphrasing. If so, what reader?

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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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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

In fact, you’ve most likely heard every industry leader teach this until they’re blue in the face! A background image that has too much going on will only distract donors from the goal: donating. Leap for Literacy. Leap for Literacy added a video about their organization at the top of their landing page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

For the past two weeks, he has been teaching ??? He had three goals - all of which were to change the focus from ???the I'd say that our goals are similar in that we're not just building content together, but informally learning together. Another point about goals: Community Literacies esp. the material???

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

The fact that San Francisco, TechSoup's home base city, is working toward this goal opens up exciting possibilities for digital inclusion projects. For example, summer camps or after-school programs located in these parks can take advantage of the free Wi-Fi to teach computer classes or stream educational movies. century jobs.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Data is inseparable from the future of work as more organizations embrace data to make decisions, track progress against goals and innovate their products and offerings. Data and analytics communities can be a unifying force that focuses people on the same goals and gives them a dedicated space to connect.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Northstar Digital Literacy has some online assessments free to individuals. To determine what’s most important, consider the individual’s career goals, growth trajectory, and the organization’s needs. What skills are needed to achieve your organization’s strategic goals? Or take advantage of free tools.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Users are asked to set goals around accent confidence, explain English proficiency and identify native language, as well as the situation in which they want to improve, which can range from in the workplace to social settings. Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try. She’s not wrong.

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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. Set and execute strategy (level appropriate). Create and communicate clarity. Fight entropy.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Prior to MARA, Nnadi ran Sustainability International, a non-profit organization that managed community-led solutions for solving UN Sustainable Development Goals. As a “legalized exchange,” MARA plans to teach governments and provide support on KYC and AML best practices.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Data is inseparable from the future of work as more organizations embrace data to make decisions, track progress against goals and innovate their products and offerings. Data and analytics communities can be a unifying force that focuses people on the same goals and gives them a dedicated space to connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

Schools must teach digital street smarts … from an early age, kids should learn about bots and automatically-generated content. The themes included: Reimagine systems: Societies can revise both tech arrangements and the structure of human institutions – including their composition, design, goals and processes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. Leaders who find new ways to communicate organizational goals and invest in building their colleagues through learning will have established an environment where trust can flourish. 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. Leaders who find new ways to communicate organizational goals and invest in building their colleagues through learning will have established an environment where trust can flourish. Set and execute strategy (level appropriate). Create and communicate clarity. Fight entropy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

with the goal of creating opportunities for 300 million young people worldwide. Year Up is just one of the five nonprofit organizations Microsoft has partnered with along with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, City Year, Junior Achievement USA (JA), and Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. More Resources.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

What I like most about this app is that it teaches financial literacy skills by letting users drill down into their expenses and easily keep track of what they're spending. They can set goals for building credit and saving money, hence the name. Supporting Youth. Youth ALIVE!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Operation Hope : This financial literacy nonprofit uses Box as its primary content management system for all employees. Teach for America , The International Rescue Committee , and Kiva all use Box for content management and collaboration. It has integrated Box content with its Salesforce implementation. spanhidden.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

If the point of the Discovery Center is to teach students the facts of the Grenada invasion, it's reasonable to create a program in which there's a right and wrong answer about what happened in history. This time, the onscreen actors and educator don't say "good job" or reward the students for their desire to avoid invasion.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

Ideas include financial literacy training, fundraising discussions, or a presentation about a political or economic issue that affects your organization. In 2001, Susan founded Resource Partners LLC , which guides nonprofits to meet their income goals within their unique financial and human resource limitations.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Fitness challenge Help your supporters with their fitness goals by hosting a peer to peer fitness challenge! Allow your participants to register a fitness goal with your organization and gather support from their personal networks to motivate them. You can also use pies to help teach kids in your community more about math for the day!

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This was initially a struggle, as the lack of face-to-face interaction makes it much harder to teach concepts and learn about a new role. This not only motivates all of your employees to sell more of your service but also better positions you to meet revenue goals. Courses that are recommended based on your learners and past data.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: US.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Marie Palacios will explain what donors want to know, why it is crucial, and how to share your past achievements, so donors contribute to your future goals. ” You know, we’re going to talk a little bit about how SMART goals drive impact reporting processes. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Marie, I got 2:00 Eastern.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

American Literacy is Iffy. Peters, principal of Beverly Hills High School, announced today that the entire school faculty will travel to Sacramento next Thursday for a colloquium in new teaching methods. In this case, students care far more about getting a day off school than a teaching conference. Writing is a way of thinking.

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