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Kids for a Cause: Getting Children Behind Nonprofit Missions

Top Nonprofits

In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about getting kids behind nonprofit missions, including: How Kids Impact Nonprofits How Nonprofits Impact Kids 3 Ways To Get Kids Involved in Nonprofit Causes Faith in action can bring to life the lessons you teach from your children’s curriculum.

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Why Common Core Will Fail

Ken Goldstein

The problem wasn''t that she or her students didn''t have access to uniform, national curriculum standards. Ask the kids dropping out from either school if the lack of unified national curriculum standards was at fault. When she tied the assignment to their desires and interests - to their passions - 85% turned it in.

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Build Economic Justice for the Future by Learning from the Past

NonProfit Quarterly

Sometimes our educational institutions create processes and curriculums that teach our children and our people to be complacent in the system that we are presented with. One, there has to be a sense of a common threat that creates coalitions, that feels much bigger than one person or one community that brings you together.

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Doing More About Less: A Targeted Approach to Workforce Readiness

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Large class sizes, inadequate teaching and learning materials, and insufficient teacher training all present roadblocks to innovation. Changes encompassed teaching and learning materials, in-service teacher training to support professional development, assessment practices of student work, school leadership, and school inspection.

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Newsletter: Who is Your Perfect Partnership Prospect? ; 4 Creative Cause Marketing Activations ; Is Trust the Future of Giving?

Selfish Giving

Sewing is a key component of the 4-H curriculum. “A A lot of people associate 4-H with agriculture and the raising and showing of animals, but they also teach sewing,” my contact at JOANN explained. They are training tomorrow’s crafters and JOANN is the leader in sewing and fabrics.” ??

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Warnings of an “Unparalleled” Assault on Higher Education

NonProfit Quarterly

Act, banning the teaching in public schools of a wide swath of racial or racially informed curricula. Last year, Gov. DeSantis signed a bill, popularly known as the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (W.O.K.E.) This includes any content that threatened to make students feel “guilty” for past discrimination by their race. “I

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Listening to teachers to support students impacted by COVID-19 

Candid

Data shows that when teachers can select resources individualized to their students, they can teach more effectively and feel empowered in their expertise, making them more likely to stay in the profession. Nonprofits and philanthropy can provide direct targeted support for these efforts.