Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Ive only just started reading Great Fundraising Organizations: Why and How the Worlds Best Charities Excel at Raising Money , and Im already widely recommending it to colleagues, students, and clients. As Roger Craver notes in his brilliant review : “Alan lays out the lessons, clear and simple, like the lines of a good story.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This year, the most innovative companies in the education sector are tackling a dizzying array of challenges facing students and schools alikenot to mention parents. As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress.

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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. Nadia Khan.

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NetWits

MAY 11, 2011

She could be a volunteer, board member, student, alumni, patron, email subscriber, event participant, or website visitor – you name it. If the answer is no, you are missing out on a huge opportunity to develop stronger relationships and build a larger network of supporters. So what can you do today? 2: Ask her to share her story.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Initially, we envisioned six solution line trails: Fundraise with Nonprofit Cloud , Manage Programs with Nonprofit Cloud , Engage Constituents with Nonprofit Cloud , Achieve Advancement Goals with Education Cloud , Build a Connected Campus with Education Cloud , Enroll Best-Fit Students with Education Cloud. What’s next?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

When I showed up, 16 eager students quietly listened to my story of starting and running businesses, and helping other entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground. Deeb’s Ice Cream Store,” one student had the winning name that got everyone excited: “The Best Ice Cream Store in the World.”. Staying competitive.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 18, 2025

For example, museums could provide different audio guides to visitors without headphones, and libraries could allow students to study with audio lessons without disturbing others. Audio enclaves could enable personalized audio in public spaces.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

The biggest lesson: Everyone has something to give. I can’t think of a lesson, an outlook on life, and a guiding principle for my work that is more about love than this one. I see this lesson in the work of 350.org. I see this lesson in the local councils of London trying to open up their data and their leadership.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let’s walk through four lessons we learned from fundraising during the pandemic and learn how your school can implement these tips moving forward: Leverage online fundraising tools. Ready to learn how to use these lessons from the pandemic to raise more for your school? Communicate frequently with your supporters.

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The Next Web

MARCH 12, 2014

This summer, thousands of students and young professionals will flock to land coveted internship positions. Nathan Parcells is the co-founder and CMO of InternMatch, an online platform connecting the best intern candidates and employers. Connect with Nathan and InternMatch on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Students can access the platform, do practice, make signs, interact with the AI tutor, and it costs them same as one hour with an in person tutor,” said Fomin. ” Users can do the first few lessons in order to see that the system works, then it’s $39 monthly, $174 half-yearly, and $228 yearly.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Engaged student and alum supporter: My daughter gets very excited when she hears talk about the university she attended. That’s because her school did a great job of engaging her while she was still a student. Engaged student and alum turned non-supporter: My husband used to be very engaged with his university.

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The Next Web

JULY 2, 2014

This post is part of the Lessons Learned series featuring NYU entrepreneurs’ first-hand accounts of challenges faced in starting a business and the lessons learned along the way. Scott Holand and I set out on our journey to improve campus recruiting for universities, corporate recruiters and students in the fall.

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Microsoft AI

JANUARY 21, 2025

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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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2020

Designed specifically for a classroom setting, Minecraft: Education Edition provides tools for educators like virtual chalkboards and a Classroom mode that allows teachers to communicate with their students and view where they are throughout the game world.

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The Verge

JANUARY 28, 2021

The map features six included lessons, which Mojang says are “designed to give students a sense of stewardship for the planet.” The lessons cover topics like sustainable food production, water outflow and treatment, and responsible forestry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

You see, several months later, the federal Department of Education challenged us to compete against a well-respected national nonprofit 60 times our size in a bid to provide accessible educational materials for US students who are blind, dyslexic, or otherwise print disabled. million contract to do just that.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

CASE offers a tremendous program for MBA students and alumni interested in applying their business skills for social purposes. I hope that in my lecture, I convince my listeners, especially students, that they don’t need technology degrees to succeed in high tech.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. multiple students inquired.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Zuoyebang offers online courses, live lessons and homework help for kindergarten to 12th grade students, and claims about 170 million monthly active users, about 50 million of whom use the service each day. Chinese live tutoring app Yuanfudao is now worth $15.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

AllRight is a platform for English language learning, aimed at children four years or older, which combines lessons with real teachers and homework with “AI-powered” tutors. The app has obviously benefited from the fact that many lessons in schools are now conducted virtually due to the pandemic.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 11, 2014

I have (tried to) run a nonprofit at my college, a campus magazine set up with attached 501(c)3 entity so as to give us financial flexibility and maintain independence from our student senate and Board of Publications. The following is a true story, or rather a compilation of true lessons I learned from running a nonprofit (terribly).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

Developing Open Source Software For Social Good For example, in the last few months, individual employees have used volunteer hours to create fun interactive, online learning tools for educators and students using Mozilla’s Webmaker.

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DeepMind Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This comprehensive introductory course is designed for educators to teach 11-14 year old students foundational AI knowledge through responsible and interactive lesson materials, activities, and video tutorials. The materials, created with educational experts, align with proven learning and development practices.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 14, 2020

When in-person school was no longer possible, Fairfax County Public Schools, in Northern Virginia, launched virtual school for its 189,000 students. Troubles began immediately , with teachers and students having problems logging in to the online school system. We recently heard about an unfortunate case in point in the news.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Don’t get too attached to each experiment: take a lesson from it, close it down, and start a new one. As a doctoral student at Oxford, I started a banana cake company in my spare time called Richard’s Banana Bakery. A lesson I took was that I wanted a highly scalable business, and I started thinking about the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

GivingTuesday is done it again with its K-12 Philanthropy Curriculum , a set of lesson plans that teachers can use to help their students participate in GivingTuesday by raising money for a local nonprofit. ” This generation is loosely defined as those born after 1995 and who are now 18 and under. The Giving 2.0

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And that student projects and hackathons bring together clusters of people hovering over a table or in a lab. You can also assume energy consumption is higher in dorms on weekday mornings as students get ready for classes while administration buildings are still dark, therefore requiring less power in the administration buildings.

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The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

With Education Edition , Microsoft created a more formal structure, with pre-made lessons covering everything from chemistry and coding to giving students the opportunity to explore the International Space Station. That’s true whether you’re messing around with friends in survival mode or doing coding lessons in class. ”We

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The Next Web

JUNE 17, 2016

Before this, we were manually pairing up our coaches and students without a platform… This story continues at The Next Web. At this point, I was feeling too anxious to take it all in, but it propelled us on a completely new journey from that moment on.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 18, 2014

Wabash is small (901 students last year), all male (one of three such institutions left in the country), a traditional liberal arts school and the best decision I’ve ever made. Besides its rigorous academics, Wabash College stands out for its fiercely loyal and passionate students and alumni, the “Little Giants.” The best part?

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

They’re writing books and building lesson plans with a twist: professional actors, streamed into the class, to recreate scenes from each book and — hopefully! help keep students engaged. Other times it’s live, with choose-your-own-adventure elements mixed in to let the students steer the ship.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Here are the ideal tech lesson plans and class schedules they suggested: 1. I want students to be playing with technology — using it, finding out what they like, what they don’t like. It’s necessary to point students towards resources, but it isn’t always necessary to choose tools for them.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Ringle claims its revenue has grown three times every year since it was founded in 2015, and that bookings for lessons have increased by 390% compared to the previous year. About 30% of its students, who learn through one-on-one live video sessions, are based outside of Korea, including in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

When it closed its Series A, Preply had 2 million booked lessons and 10,000 vetted tutors. One year later, there have been more than 10 million lessons booked on the platform, and the tutor network has grown to 40,000 people across 190 countries. 13 investors say lifelong learning is taking edtech mainstream.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It was an incredible experience and I’m so glad I was able to be part of the KAUST program and meet so many different students, entrepreneurs, faculty and staff. One of the biggest lessons I re-learn everywhere I go – in the city or in the world – is that for all the talk about differences, we are often very similar.

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