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. dont complete their degree within eight years after enrolling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. This fair use victory is crucial not only for our present work, but also for our social mission at large and for the future of our work under our Global Literacy program.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

When you’re talking about technology, literacy and language are usually second tier,” says Jorge Rodriguez, a health technology equity researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The program, called v-safe, is one way the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will follow up with people who take the vaccine.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 billion, up from $2 billion a year ago.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Mark Hurst, author of Bit Literacy , a New York Times best seller on controlling the flow of information in the digital age, put it best when he said : Bits are a new material. This creates a digital form of clutter that erodes your ability to focus and perform creative tasks. I studied product design in school.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

VisionLink''s Role VisionLink customers are among those providing 2-1-1 services, from New York to Washington state, from Florida to Maine, and here in our own state of Colorado--and for many regional and metropolitan systems in between. Requests for health and mental health services increased to 15% of all calls.

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The Verge

AUGUST 26, 2021

So publishers are expected to maintain their Apple News channel, publish in the Apple News Format (ANF), and offer an app in the App Store that offers auto-renewable subscriptions and only “original, professionally-authored news content.” A dramatic reduction in fees. That’s incorrect, Apple will support those efforts.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Carnegie Corporation of New York. Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Carnegie Corporation of New York—established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding—is one of America’s oldest grantmaking foundations. Areas served: New York City.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Latin Americans seeking the ability to invest in companies trading on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange now have a new option in Vest, a startup that has launched a mobile-first brokerage app with zero-commission trading in the Americas. The startup currently offer users integration to local banking in the U.S.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

The New York Times has the best coverage I’ve seen on what Internet.org will be and what it will do. According the New York Times “Facebook is already working on techniques to reduce the average amount of data used by its Android mobile app from the current 12 megabytes a day to 1 megabyte without users noticing.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2013

While a few institutions have capitalized on the intersections between art and science (notably, the Exploratorium, Science Gallery, and the New York Hall of Science), most stay squarely in their own camps. Why do we think scientific research is any more or less understandable to the general public than fine art?

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The New York-based startup, currently going through Y Combinator’s summer 2021 batch, raised a pre-seed round of about $605,000 from the accelerator and XFund. Duolingo excels at reading and writing literacy, but it has not yet shared any known efficacy studies about its pronunciation efforts. Hollywood, meet edtech.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2012

" Joseph's initiative, the Online Leadership Program , integrates a "youth development approach when tackling international and public policy issues with youth media programs that build digital literacy, foster substantive online dialogues, develop resources for educators, and promote civic participation."

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

NYSSCPA / New York, NY / $480. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Innovation Enterprise / New York, NY / $1,695. Digital Marketing Conferences (DIGIMARCON) / New York, NY / $597. Finance / @southwestfdns.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

YC really gave us the business fluency and literacy we needed and connected us to other founders in highly regulated industries like healthcare and edtech that had to go face similar hurdles. So we didn’t know the first thing about running a business, much less running an enterprise, government-focused, B2G business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

Amy Webb, futurist, professor of strategic foresight at New York University and founder of the Future Today Institute, said, “If our current habits continue unchanged, it’s easiest to map pessimistic and catastrophic scenarios. People will be surrounded by more misleading or false information, not less.

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BoardAssist

JULY 19, 2017

Maybe he is a public school teacher who develops an after-school literacy program for under-served children in his community. Someone who can gather data on best practices at the fifty other after-school literacy programs in New York? Most nonprofits are started by someone with a dream to make the world a better place.

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NTEN

JANUARY 26, 2021

Profiling the YMCA, one of the most well-recognized nonprofits serving communities across the country, The New York Times reports that many locations have furloughed up to 95% of their workers as revenues are down 30% to 50%. Professionalism in financial literacy & intentionality. Overhead projections. Conclusion.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Wells Fargo is committed to social impact through its Wells Fargo Foundation, which provides grants and sponsorships for nonprofit events focused on housing affordability, financial literacy, small business growth, and sustainability. WarnerMedia sponsors nonprofit events focused on diversity, media literacy, and arts education.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Money smarts, gamified : This company wants to improve your credit by gamifying financial literacy , reports Christine. is partnering with Delta Air Lines to offer home-to-airport transportation for airline customers, beginning in New York and Los Angeles. Rebecca has more. . billion ForgeRock deal.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

A month after the story was published, an email arrived from a writer at the New York Times who had discovered our feature and wanted to write it up. We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program.

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Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

We also found nearly 20% of respondents aged 45-64 did not have checking accounts, revealing that our older clients needed more financial literacy programming to avoid slipping into poverty. We found striking data points , such as that only 54.5%

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries. " Image: Library at City College of New York ( Paul Lowry ).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

An example of this emerging philanthropic approach to redistribute wealth and democratize power can be seen in CRUS’ partnership with We-Care Foundation, a Liberian nonprofit organization, and support of its First Literacy Initiative (FLI) a holistic, home-based program that empowers parents and caregivers as their children’s first teachers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

A list of wrong assumptions about the use of big data for humanitarian relief is pointed out and you can have a look at some of the big data presentations at the recent Personal Democracy Forum held in New York. Facilitating global literacy about Big Data is viewed as important for the media, civic hackers, and civil society.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

Toronto, Canada: Toronto Net Tuesday: Digital Literacy for Nonprofits. New York, New York: Data Storytelling and Data Visualization for Nonprofits. Mukono, Uganda: Improved Skills and Competencies for Productive Web Literacy in Mayuge. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes — Westmoreland.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

Vietnam is an S-shaped country that is slightly larger than New Mexico. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. YCAB Foundation is an NGO based both in New York and Jakarta, Indonesia. It is densely populated with 92 million people.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2016

Robert Antell and his wife, Marguerite, decided to make a break from the norm in their rural town of Perinton near the Canadian border in New York State. As an instructor, her primary areas of focus included reading, writing and literacy advocacy for students of all abilities.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2015

These days, people often share images that communicate a wealth of nuanced information (rather than relying on words), and visual literacy is becoming a requirement. Given this new reality, how can we communicate with and engage our communities?

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

data literacy, device preferences)? Example 2: The American Museum of Natural History in New York shows a clear hierarchy of content. Defining your needs and identifying past areas of success or opportunity provide a clearer direction to move forward. Audiences: Which audience groups are you prioritizing?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

While the speakers were talking, the avatars in Second Life were carrying on a lively debate in chat about the points raised, suggesting questions to be asked in the room in New York City, and passing along urls/resources related to the discussion at hand. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising are now new. Back in 1914, fundraising pioneers Charles Ward and Lyman Pierce had a crowdfunding campaign that raised $4 million in a week in New York City. Data literacy will become one of the most important skills for a nonprofit professional to possess. Time is up.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

New York Liberty For making its mascot the MVP of the marketing team She rocks the pregame tunnel, is one of the most popular members of the WNBA champion New York Liberty, and is widely considered one of the most marketable sports stars in the Big Apple. That wasnt the Martin Agencys only pop-culture play last year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

STEM for the South Bronx (Bronx, New York) A high school robotics team with a vision to create an education center that is open to the public to explore the world of STEM. Signisa (Dobbs Ferry, New York) An organization working to develop an AI-powered sign language learning application offering free, accessible courses.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The New York Women’s Foundation. i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). This foundation supports smaller, grassroots organizations in the New York region that work to improve the lives of girls and women.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The New York Women’s Foundation. i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). This foundation supports smaller, grassroots organizations in the New York region that work to improve the lives of girls and women.

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