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Nonprofit Survey Unveils Gen Z Insights Into Advocating for Top Issues

NonProfit PRO

American Student Assistance conducted a quantitative study of more than 2,000 13-18-year-olds from across the nation to gain insights into Gen Z's attitudes and behaviors around activism.

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Price McIntosh Bursary for prospective libraries and archives students

Charity Village

Library and Archives Canada will provide financial aid to Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation), persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities through the Price McIntosh Bursary to encourage them to enrol or pursue studies in fields related to libraries and archives.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. In 2004, the United States passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , requiring schools to provide special education services to eligible students.

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How to Effectively Share Text-to-Donate Campaigns on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Their text-to-donate keyword is given verbally, is superimposed as a graphic on the video and the text-to-donate keyword is in the caption to the video: Of course not everyone has access to national celebrities, but it doesn’t have to be someone like Jimmy Kimmel to work. 4) Text-to-Donate on Instagram.

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A Dallas-based founder looks to tackle the student loan crisis with his startup, College Cash

TechCrunch

His startup, College Cash , allows brands to petition users to create photo and video marketing content highlighting their product or service, with the wrinkle being that content creators are paid by the brands in the form of credits that go directly toward paying down their student loan debt.

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UK ditches exam results generated by biased algorithm after student protests

The Verge

The UK has said that students in England and Wales will no longer receive exam results based on a controversial algorithm after accusations that the system was biased against students from poorer backgrounds , Reuters and BBC News report. In the UK, A-levels are the set of exams taken by students around the age of 18.

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Want to stay healthier and fulfilled later in life? Try volunteering

Fast Company Tech

170 billion each year, according to AmeriCorps, the federal agency focused on national and community service. Alexis de Tocquevillea French philosopher and diplomat who arrived in the United States in 1831 to study the new nations penal systemwas so impressed by the scale of volunteering in the U.S.

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