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Teaching Our Kids to Build the Computers of the Future

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There is a new nonprofit that nicely demonstrates the challenge of identifying a social problem and then developing the right strategy for solving that problem. Code.org’s sole aim is to solve the impending shortage of computer programmers. Because we have grown increasingly dependent on technology in our everyday lives, while our schools have not adequately prepared […]

Resetting Philanthropy

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Challenging times are often an opportunity to restructure and rethink a broken system.  Just as the nonprofit sector needs to “reset” how they operate and how they raise money given the economic crisis and the crumbling social safety net, philanthropy, too, needs to take a step back and reset.  And there are some encouraging signs […]