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

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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. This week, nearly a year after first beginning to work with Room to Read, we’re proud to be taking part in promoting Literacy Day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

At Benetech, we always ask ourselves how our existing successful programs can reach more people who need our services and how we can apply technology in new ways to enrich and improve more lives. These milestones represent a giant leap forward in the number of students and individuals we serve. The majority of our members are U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. and James L. With our Read2Go app, Bookshare members can now search, download and read Bookshare books and periodicals on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Universities have programs on learning how to run social enterprises. In doing a Google search on the term, Harvard Business School has an ad listing: “Social Enterprise Programs for Senior Managers. It should be noted that Google has more than five million instances of websites using the phrase “social enterprise.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. ” Studies have shown that digital literacy can reduce recidivism , or relapse into crime. For example, U.S.

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2022

More than a quarter of a million people have already learned in-demand data skills from Tableau's data education programs. Build Your Data Literacy. Explore the Build Your Data Literacy trail and find out how to communicate more effectively with data. Data Literacy for All. Tableau Academic Programs .

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2022

More than a quarter of a million people have already learned in-demand data skills from Tableau's data education programs. Build Your Data Literacy. Explore the Build Your Data Literacy trail and find out how to communicate more effectively with data. Data Literacy for All. Tableau Academic Programs .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

There are many Americans who don’t come from affluent families and have tons of student loan debt,” Chen said. With Kikoff, the pair aim to give people not only a way to build a credit history, but also a way to increase consumer financial literacy. Image Credits: Kikoff.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

An organizational plan, the equivalent of a private-sector business plan, lays out a nonprofits mission, goals, programs, and strategies for raising and managing funds. This is lovely but led to many competing programs, such as holiday gift baskets, backpacks, clothing, and tutoring, leaving the organization stretched too thin.

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Tableau

AUGUST 9, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and further shifted what students need to succeed in today’s digital economy. Although digital competencies like computer literacy and data skills have grown in importance in recent years, the need for digital skills has never been greater. Career options matter for enrollment.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Organizations like Quill.org use AI-powered tools to provide personalized, free writing instruction for K-12 students, which is particularly beneficial for schools with high student-teacher ratios. AI can also lighten the workload of educators while ensuring students AI literacy. Build AI literacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Of course, accessibility is right up Benetech’s alley and the focus of our Literacy program. In my Fall 2011 President's Update , I mentioned some of our incredible recent achievements in this core program, including the amazing milestones of our Bookshare library. In the U.S.,

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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. and that risk paid off.

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Tableau

AUGUST 9, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and further shifted what students need to succeed in today’s digital economy. Although digital competencies like computer literacy and data skills have grown in importance in recent years, the need for digital skills has never been greater. Career options matter for enrollment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. Consider third grade student Brennan Draves. Brennan Draves and his mother, Lindsay Draves, at school. Martus Desktop 4.5

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Tableau

JUNE 16, 2021

Students who master data skills will have an advantage in their future careers. Enterprises are increasingly becoming data-driven—and requiring data literacy skills for employees in every part of the organization. We commissioned research by Forrester Consulting to help better understand the data literacy gap. June 17, 2021.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Tableau Academic Programs Instructional Designer. 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. Sue Kraemer. Kristin Adderson.

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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.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Reading Eggs is an online reading education program for children aged 3 to 13. See the program page for details about the subscription plans offered by TechSoup. Reading Eggs is ideal for organizations that work with literacy among children and want to motivate them through games. Is It Right for My Organization?

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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.

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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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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2020

That’s not a realistic solution in all places, though: Hahn, the Cherokee Library director, says he would love to lend out Wi-Fi hotspots in addition to the few Chromebooks his library has but thinks community need is so vast that any program he started with current resources would be quickly overwhelmed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Technology is playing an ever larger role in increasing respect for human rights and delivering better services, and we have two rare opportunities to lead world-class tech-for-good programs. Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She’d laid out the assignment clearly, but student after student was calling her over for help. They were all getting the same error message: The program couldn’t find their files.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

posted by Annette Sutfin , Kinship Program. Orchestrated effectively, a corporate volunteer program has the potential to render benefits not only to the nonprofit, but to the corporation as well. The hours of unpaid labor afforded by such programs is the obvious contribution to the nonprofit organization. Sources: Brudney, J.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Tanna Solberg October 13, 2020 - 9:19pm Courtney Totten Director, Academic Programs We use data everyday for our jobs and in our daily lives. 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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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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Literacy Skills Data Build 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Founded in 2001 in response to the Gujarat earthquake, AIF now runs multiple programs. The one I was most interested in is the Digital Equalizer Program. Digital divide programs are notoriously difficult to run successfully. The AIF team in New Delhi took me to visit a school that was part of the Digital Equalizer program.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

Kristen Coco , Program Developer. For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. credit card or budget their money. We need to find a way to.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Read on to learn how the World Food Program USA, Partners in Health, and The Mission Continues have customized one story for different platforms so they can reach more people with their impactful work. World Food Program USA: Rani’s Story. WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Training and capacity building: Offer training programs, workshops, and resources for journalists to improve their skills, adapt to new technologies, and stay competitive. Collaboration with academia: Partner with educational institutions to create programs that benefit both students and local journalism.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2021

They hail from a wide array of institutions, including a food bank, city government, a refugee resettlement agency, multiple libraries, an adult literacy organization, and an organization that works with formerly incarcerated individuals.

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