Isabelle Duston is the founder and General Project Manager of iLearn4Free. Her endeavor and efforts have been acknowledged by several institutions such as the Learning Without Frontiers International Festival through the Innovation Award for the primary and pre-school learning category, and by Virginia’s Region 2000 Technology Council through the 2011 Innovator of the Year Award among others. Indeed, the impact she aims to have on the mobile technology field positions her as a respectable social entrepreneur.
Although enrollment in primary education has constantly risen throughout the world, illiteracy is still a pressing issue and new challenges have arisen from the need to prove sufficient teachers and infrastructures to developing countries. Universal primary education is the second goal among the United Nation’s (UN) Millennium Development Goals and the main concern of the World Bank Education Strategy 2020. However, because of a lack of resources, the pace of progress is insufficient to ensure that “by 2015, children everywhere will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling” as it is targeted by the UN. Duston believes that literacy allows for development and growth both at the individual and community scale. Reading and writing are closely related to eradicating poverty and promoting gender equality. Likewise, organizations such as the Sesame Workshop, are committed to developing literacy and numeracy skills around the world through educational technology tools. Sesame Workshop, the organization that created Sesame Street, promotes the use of available technological tools, such as television and mobile phones, to educate children. This nonprofit is an established organization that benefits from its scale to ma...
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Many people have begun to question how they use the money they raise. About 81% of their funds are put towards their programs and services, while more reputable charities are usually
The nonprofit sector in America is a reflection some of the foundational values that brought our nation into existence. Fundamentals, such as the idea that people can govern themselves and the belief that people should have the opportunity to make a difference by joining a like-minded group, have made America and its nonprofit sector what it is today. The American "civil society" is one that has been produced through generations of experiments with government policy, nonprofit organizations, private partnerships, and individuals who have asserted ideas and values. The future of the nonprofit sector will continue to be experimental in many ways. However, the increase of professional studies in nonprofit management and the greater expectation of its role in society is causing executives to look to more scientific methods of management.
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Throughout Dan Pallotta’s TED Talk he argues that the discrimination against nonprofits is limiting their ability to change the world. He believes that nonprofits operate under one rule book, while for-profits operate under another. And the book for-profits are encouraged to operate under, allows them to attract the best talent, spend money to make money, take risks, pay dividends, and take their time returning profits to investors.
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As the world advances through the modern age of information and connectivity, having a literate society is crucial to being able to work effectively with the outside world. Jonathan Kozol’s book, The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society, portrays the life of illiterates in the modern world and argues that society has an ethical obligation to fix the problem of illiteracy. Kozol believes that illiteracy has the greatest effect on the education of current and future generations, the way food is consumed and wasted, and various economic costs to both illiterates and those around them. Kozol’s main point throughout his book is that society as a whole needs to face the problem of illiteracy, as not one single group or person can do it on their own.
One important guideline that organizations need to follow is to tell a story through their social media platforms. Patel says, “Waggner Edstrom’s report on digital persuasion found that more than half of survey respondents have been inspired to take action when they engage with a cause after reading a story on social media. It’s not enough to simply exist on a platform: nonprofits have to produce stories and visuals that their audiences connect to in order to succeed” (Patel, 2013). It does not help nonprofits to have a Facebook page or a Twitter account without doing anything with it. They must tell a story and not just have posts asking for money. Boies also points this out by saying, “Don’t simply ask your community for their hard earned-money, show them who and what will benefit from their donations” (Boies, 2013). Organizations have to explain and convi...
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Along such time, the budget has grown over $2000,000, fact that paradoxically left Youth Haven with a deficit of$20,000. Marcel is in the process to upgrade her mindset of for-profit sector molded to the nonprofit sector environment. In addition, an executive director must consider some other factor, even when a nonprofit departs from the way any for-profit business is. In the textbook, Nonprofit Management Principles and Practices, Worth pointed out, “nonprofit managers are confronted with sorting through an array of options and selecting the measures and methods that meet both their own need for useful management information as well as the expectations of funders, watchdogs, and regulators.” (Wroth, P. 161). It is important to understand that administrators of non profits not only have to handle the management side of things but also to make sure that whatever service they are providing to the community is still running
In today’s society, we are blessed with various forms of philanthropy and different ways to achieve this philanthropic culture. When many people think of the term philanthropy, they immediately think of donating money to charities and other non-profit organizations. That is not necessarily the case because an individual can do philanthropy in a variety of different ways. For instance, they can do anything from taking part in or making an organization for the less fortunate. They can even participate in any form of community service that helps ‘people in that community’. Since philanthropy is all about “civic engagement, essentially social reform and community building.” Therefore, philanthropists need to connect with people and go beyond themselves into the world of donors in order to create that community of philanthropy. In a philanthropic culture, the importance of giving is instilled in the everyday organizational life at all levels and in all areas. This invites donors to support and embraced the healing mission of an organization. A philanthropic culture establishes an understanding of how community giving can strengthen and sustain organizations. However, the drive behind a philanthropic culture is to improve the wellbeing of humanity by preventing and solving social problems. In this paper, I’ll focus on how to establish a successful philanthropy and the importance of donors to sustain those philanthropy cultural aspects.
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I came from a country which has some similarities and differences from the United States in the education system. One of my government top priority is literacy; which means being able to read. My governments encouraged people to be able to read with some different ways. Literacy is the education key. I can read two languages, English and Arabic. My journey started when I was five and half with Arabic learning then I started English learning when I was 11 or 12. In Introduction to College Writing, Benjamin R. Barber, an American political theorist and author, said “On September 8, the day most of the nation's children were scheduled to return to school, the Department of Education Statistics issued a report, commissioned by Congress, on adult literacy and numeracy in the United State's. The results? More than 90 million adult Americans lacked simple literacy” (228). This is how we start school in my country.
To reach the universal education goal for all children, special efforts should be clearly made by policymakers like addressing the social, economic...
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