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. This summer, we will have three students working on Bookshare software for our users underwritten by Google’s Summer of Code program. copyright law. and that risk paid off.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Bridge the data literacy gap for students in academia. In my many years as a scientist, I mentored trainees in data analysis and witnessed frustration, anxiety, and even productivity loss in students who lacked foundational data skills. We define data literacy as “the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Amira Learning aims to address this with an app that reads along with students, intelligently correcting errors in real time. In classrooms, a common exercise is to have students read aloud from a storybook or worksheet. In classrooms, a common exercise is to have students read aloud from a storybook or worksheet.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2022

Despite data skills being the most in-demand skill in today’s (and tomorrow’s) job market, there’s still a data literacy gap. . Start building your data skills—for free—with the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. To fill this void, we created the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. . Data Literacy Basics.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The pandemic’s impact on chronic absence Chronic absence— missing at least 10% of school days in one academic year—is a significant driver of the low literacy and numeracy skills reflected in the KIDS COUNT data. The number of chronically absent students nearly doubled from 16% in the 2018–19 school year to 30% in 2021–22.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Although most people are familiar with the current trend of growing amounts of data, there is a skills gap in data literacy - defined as the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data. A Data Culture is the collective behaviors and beliefs of people who value, practice, and encourage the use of data to improve decision-making.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Because of his lifelong commitment to education, Keyes founded the Education is Freedom Foundation , which provides college scholarships for hard-working young students. In over 20 years since its inception, the foundation has helped nearly hundreds of thousands of students find their path to higher education. from 2007 to 2011.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 20, 2012

Ahmad Naboulsi , Master's Student of. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Click here to read Pat Lewis's "Research Friday: Financial literacy: understanding money for today’s activities and tomorrow’s security.".

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

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. In particular, we’re excited about the promise that the appeal court’s ruling holds for the expansion of our efforts to improve access to images.

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Accessibility Copyright Authoring Law 205

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Community engagement: Nonprofits can support initiatives that engage the public in the news-making process, such as town hall meetings, citizen journalism projects, or community media literacy programs. Collaboration with academia: Partner with educational institutions to create programs that benefit both students and local journalism.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The company’s active client base grew 350% year over year, currently at over 50,000 paying students. The money will be used to get more students into its universe of tools, as well as help Novakid expand into international markets with high populations of speakers who want to learn English. Students are clicking in.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

JMU had one of lowest totals of infected students among Virginia’s big publics. Lee Feinberg, a parent of a current JMU student, has been crucial to the success of the dashboard. . . “I I looked at it and said, ‘It’s good that they’re doing this, but it could be a lot better,’” said Feinberg, whose area of expertise is data literacy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

At the same time, he suggested that it’s not a “zero sum” competition with music teachers; there are teachers who recommend Yousician to their students as a way to keep practicing and learning between lessons. “We want to make musicality to be as common as literacy,” Thür said.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The blog you are reading now is the result of putting these principles into practice! Those who envision what could be possible by having Benetech apply innovative technology to the areas of Literacy, Human Rights, and the Environment, and who enable us to explore new opportunities for creating social good.

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Tableau

JANUARY 24, 2023

Inspired by data viz competitions and their impact, I worked with the Jabar Digital Service (JDS) to launch their own Viz Games, called the Jabar Dataviz Competition as part of the Jabar Data Visualization Festival (JDVF) which was open to all local Indonesian professionals, public officers, and students.

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Data Tips Award Storytelling 101

Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Minds Matter of Los Angeles added a background image of the students that benefit from their programs. Leap for Literacy. Leap for Literacy added a video about their organization at the top of their landing page. Donation form and landing page best practices. Let’s look at some examples: Minds Matter of Los Angeles.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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Tableau

JANUARY 24, 2023

Inspired by data viz competitions and their impact, I worked with the Jabar Digital Service (JDS) to launch their own Viz Games, called the Jabar Dataviz Competition as part of the Jabar Data Visualization Festival (JDVF) which was open to all local Indonesian professionals, public officers, and students.

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Data Tips Award Storytelling 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

Dave goes on to explain the concept of "Reverse Curriculum" Reverse curriculum tends to develop out of the interests that the students show during the course and they get to record and create the material as part of their daily practice. Another point about goals: Community Literacies esp. between students evaporated.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Responses from NMI students and alumni reveal that 94% say NMI courses are relevant to their daily work. Stay tuned.

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Research Arizona Philanthropy Studies 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit professional to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Annette is a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at ASU. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. Is that cool - the literacy school is green! The students are the children of the poorest families of Roteang Village and who participate in the Sharing Foundation's farm project.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 7, 2023

Say you’re writing an appeal that will support your summer literacy program: Imagine a character that’s similar to people who have donated to that cause in the past. This could mean something as simple as removing extraneous fields or as complex as overhauling your form to abide by best practices. What motivated them to give last time?

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Tableau

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Just as a professional who takes a job abroad needs to immerse herself in the native tongue, businesses who value data literacy need ways to immerse their people in the language of data. . How to foster data communities and literacy. Executive leadership needs to do more than just sponsor data communities and mandate data literacy.

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Data Community Business Literacy 62

Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Whether this is your first Tableau visualization or your 100th, let this be a chance to practice and grow your viz-building skills using your own personal data! Image sourced from Tableau Student Ambassador Jason Khu’s The Tableau Desktop Workspace Interface Guide. . Option 1: Access a Tableau for Students License.

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Music Data Chart Files 105

Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

It’s more like an art form, one that you can learn with practice and by understanding the real purpose of a donation receipt. The Winning Formula for a Flawless Donation Receipt As important as it is to create the right online donation receipt, it is an art form you can master through practice and following our formula.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Whether this is your first Tableau visualization or your 100th, let this be a chance to practice and grow your viz-building skills using your own personal data! Image sourced from Tableau Student Ambassador Jason Khu’s The Tableau Desktop Workspace Interface Guide. . Option 1: Access a Tableau for Students License.

Music 98

Music Data Chart Files 98

Tableau

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

JMU had one of lowest totals of infected students among Virginia’s big publics. Lee Feinberg, a parent of a current JMU student, has been crucial to the success of the dashboard. . . “I I looked at it and said, ‘It’s good that they’re doing this, but it could be a lot better,’” said Feinberg, whose area of expertise is data literacy.

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Help Virginia Student University 52

Tableau

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Just as a professional who takes a job abroad needs to immerse herself in the native tongue, businesses who value data literacy need ways to immerse their people in the language of data. . How to foster data communities and literacy. Executive leadership needs to do more than just sponsor data communities and mandate data literacy.

Data 52

Data Community Business Literacy 52

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. Users can interact with the services in practical ways, such as the simple act of walking around a virtual space.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Discovery Center is a one-hour simulation in which groups of students (grade 5 and up) role play in a realistic, interactive environment. The students are each given roles on one of three teams--the Oval Office, a military command center, and a press room. The topic is the invasion of Grenada. You will make history.

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Grenada Student History Museum 48

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Securus and Global Tel have provided calling services for a long time, and their business practices were described by former FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn as “the clearest, most glaring type of market failure I’ve ever seen as a regulator.” ” Build products that improve the lives of inmates.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

I think of nerves when my first day of high school was coupled with my first day of football practice. The National Commission on writing stated that 80 percent of grade school students are not proficient at writing. But mostly, going back to school reminds me of my Trapper Keeper. Writing and Speech Assistance Tools from goQ Software.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Students can raise money by selling products from a selected catalog that they can hand out to potential buyers. Reading challenge Issue a community-wide reading challenge this spring to encourage literacy in your community. Brochure fundraiser Brochure fundraisers are a great option for schools.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

And most of its practices exist thanks to the Internet. A high school or college student who’s looking for experience in digital marketing could be a great candidate. While content creation is an ongoing practice, its results account can account for numerous “passive” successes.

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