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Go read this Daily Beast story about a new online school Elon Musk helped start

The Verge

Back in 2015, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he had started a school to teach his five kids, eventually expanding it as a non-profit school for some children of SpaceX employees. He said at the time that his kids’ school wasn’t “doing things I thought should be done,” so he hired away his kids’ teacher to help found the Ad Astra School.

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Celebrating Black history and Black futures

Candid

An HBCU Midnight Brunch during Juneteenth weekend at the Roots 101: African American Museum , a nonprofit in Louisville, Kentucky, exemplifies this fusion of the past and what is to come. When we talk about history, we always say we teach the past while we teach the future. We have to pour into that next generation.

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Student social good startups collect $95K in T-Mobile competition

TechCrunch

Bridge the Gap Initiative (North Royalton, Ohio) A student-run organization designed to help senior citizens navigate the digital world by teaching them valuable skills like texting and video calling using their smart phones.

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Finding the Great Impact Story

Tech Soup

TEALS is a national YouthSpark program that places computer engineers into high school classrooms to teach students computer science in schools where they haven't the expertise or resources to provide the classes.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

For example, the University of Kentucky publishes this skills checklist with a list of basic computer skills you could adapt to your context. If you teach people to operate software, have them follow along on their computer instead of just watching the trainer perform the task. Or take advantage of free tools.

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2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

Kentucky Foundation for Women. Kentucky Foundation For Women. The mission of the Kentucky Foundation for Women is to promote positive social change by supporting varied feminist expression in the arts. Areas served: Kentucky. Texas Women’s Foundation. The Hadassah Foundation. Mary’s Pence. Wallace Global Fund.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

Kentucky Foundation for Women. Kentucky Foundation For Women. The mission of the Kentucky Foundation for Women is to promote positive social change by supporting varied feminist expression in the arts. Areas served: Kentucky. Texas Women’s Foundation. The Hadassah Foundation. Mary’s Pence. Wallace Global Fund.