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Dear LinkedIn Community Necessary Endings: I Learn to Live - Ngifundela Ukuphila Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, I Learn to Live - Ngifundela Ukuphila was not able to raise the funds that would see our education programmes continue, as well as expand. We have had to make the difficult decision to retrench a significant number of our team. Our intention is to continue operating our school Coding & Robotics Clubs (catering to approx. 120 children), as well as our Saturday Club (approx. 35 children), until October, with a skeleton staff. In November, schools usually start running their own extra lessons, so attendance of our programmes is irregular. Although we are devastated, the last (almost) 14 years have been filled with incredible impact (as well as lessons learnt and challenges overcome), and it is this that we choose to remember, as this season of working with children in rural Zululand comes to an end. I Learn to Live is not deregistering as an organisation, but will now take time to reconsider what the future of the organisation might look like. We have six team members who have active side-hustles that have the potential to become small businesses, and we would love to support them on this journey through Enterprise Development funding. We are pleased at the progress that one of our recent YES Youth interns, Nomthandazo Chili, is making with her bakery business (because of ED funds), and we believe these other businesses could flourish with much needed support. They are businesses that meet the needs of the communities the team have been serving. We'd like to thank every single person, corporate, church, and trust and foundation, that has encouraged us, supported us financially and materially, and prayed for us, over these years. Without you, we would not have gone from serving 3 beneficiaries to thousands. #coding #robotics #nonprofit #newbeginnings

Six months ago, we started the sixth Code For a Cause campaign, which was finalized at the Hackathon event from 13th to 15th October. More than 45 IT engineers, 10 IT students and 5 project managers had 48 hours to create software solutions for non-profit organizations. Quite a challenge, isn’t it? Dive into our newest blog to see how they faced it: https://lnkd.in/dKds4YWw #CodeForACause6 #ProgrameriZaGradjane #LifeAtVegaIT

Dear LinkedIn Community Necessary Endings: I Learn to Live - Ngifundela Ukuphila Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, I Learn to Live - Ngifundela Ukuphila was not able to raise the funds that would see our education programmes continue, as well as expand. We have had to make the difficult decision to retrench a significant number of our team. Our intention is to continue operating our school Coding & Robotics Clubs (catering to approx. 120 children), as well as our Saturday Club (approx. 35 children), until October, with a skeleton staff. In November, schools usually start running their own extra lessons, so attendance of our programmes is irregular. Although we are devastated, the last (almost) 14 years have been filled with incredible impact (as well as lessons learnt and challenges overcome), and it is this that we choose to remember, as this season of working with children in rural Zululand comes to an end. I Learn to Live is not deregistering as an organisation, but will now take time to reconsider what the future of the organisation might look like. We have six team members who have active side-hustles that have the potential to become small businesses, and we would love to support them on this journey through Enterprise Development funding. We are pleased at the progress that one of our recent YES Youth interns, Nomthandazo Chili, is making with her bakery business (because of ED funds), and we believe these other businesses could flourish with much needed support. They are businesses that meet the needs of the communities the team have been serving. We'd like to thank every single person, corporate, church, and trust and foundation, that has encouraged us, supported us financially and materially, and prayed for us, over these years. Without you, we would not have gone from serving 3 beneficiaries to thousands. #coding #robotics #nonprofit #newbeginnings

With ezPartner, local organizations go through an onboarding process that lets them apply and identify their interests in working with your district. You can use that to qualify and validate whether they are a good fit, or you can automatically let them take the next step of registering and setting up both a personal ezPartner account and a partner profile. As schools create requests in ezPartner, registered partners can choose to receive notifications about those school needs or they can visit your district website to search and find requests by campus. Alternatively, you can send out newsletters highlighting seasonal trends in your school needs. You can also set up ezPartner so your district departments can help facilitate programming needs like STEM, mentoring or work-based learning. Once a partner connects with a school, the school can ‘Match’ them to that request, so both the partner and school staff can use ezPartner to track outcomes that are related to their shared efforts. Depending on the scale, multiple partners can be matched to the same request. If you would be interested in finding out how ezPartner can help your district easily and reliably keep track of your community partners, click https://lnkd.in/gMyXdi3S to learn more. #communityengagement

🌟 Empowering Change: QuestionPro's 2024 Commitment to Universities & Nonprofits 🌟 🎓 Leveling up our academic collabs & research vibes. 🤝 Digging deeper with nonprofits to make real change happen. 🌍 Going big globally in education and the social good scene. 💡 Rolling out fresh tools that universities and nonprofits will love. Big shoutout to all our university buds, nonprofit pals, and the entire QuestionPro crew. Let's keep the momentum going and rock 2024 together! 🥳 #QuestionPro #OnwardAndUpward #university #ImpactMakers

Clear Direction Mentoring is doing a MAJOR PUSH to try to raise money to hire our first-ever Executive Director! This is a huge move for us as a non-profit and we need your help. There are three incredible ways that you could help us to raise money and all would be invaluable to ensuring our mission of mentoring the next generation of diverse leaders in STEMM is more sustainably achieved. First, you can always head to our website: https://lnkd.in/gMXD-xiT Next, we're on Benevity! https://lnkd.in/gbr78z2s Do you work for Regeneron Google Merck Prudential Financial Visa Starbucks UPS GE or any other company that uses Benevity? Many of your companies give matched donations or allocate giving dollars each year for employees to give to causes they care about. Please consider giving to us and helping in the longevity necessary to make a lasting impact for high schoolers and college students in STEMM to receive amazing mentorship, immersive experiences, and first-ever paid internships. Third, we're currently partnering with HundredX to amplify your capacity to give without opening your wallet! If you text "Give" to 90412, you can sign up to fill out surveys to give feedback on brands you love (or despise)! Each quality survey earns Clear Direction Mentoring ~$1. Thus, you can donate your time on the bus, commuting, getting your oil changed, or just hanging out on the couch to Clear Direction Mentoring. Finally, if you have any questions or ideas for how we could have meaningful partnerships, please let us know! Our volunteer board members have been working tirelessly to support our mission for our last 9 years, but we absolutely need to hire our first employee to help this organization survive and to take our impact to the next level! Thank you so much for your time and consideration. We appreciate you! #Mentorship #Fundraising #ExecutiveDirector #GiveWithoutSpending #HundredX #PleaseDonate #ThankYou #STEM #STEMEducation #Gratitude

Interesting opportunity for folks in the for-profit sector to try to understand non-profits... on the other hand, OpenAI is a very non-standard non-profit, from a structural perspective.

Hurray🥳🥳 It's that time of year, and we're excited to do this again. Light a Path Foundation is a platform born out of passion for the less privileged and for young people. I know I am not there yet, but this passion can't wait. I have tried to convince myself to hold off on this vision, maybe come back to it later in the future when I eventually become as wealthy as the prominent people I look up to today, but something inside me keeps urging me to pay attention to the vision now, however I can, no matter how little. Just as the name of the organization suggests, our vision is to lighten the path of at least one person at a time. Last week, I went to LEA Primary School in Madalla and spoke with the headmistress. I was concerned about assisting some children in the school, especially those who need help. I didn't know exactly what we could do for the children; I didn't just want to help them, I wanted us to address a real need. The first thing the headmistress mentioned was writing materials, especially books. She told me about their daily encounters with children coming to school without books. Some have over 14 subjects but come to school with just one book. Sometimes they are forced to chase them home to get books, and their parents end up coming to beg for the children to return to school without books. Some parents try so hard to get up to 3 to 4 books for their children, but others just come to school like that, and this makes teaching difficult for the teachers. After listening to these stories, my team and I decided to buy the pupils writing materials. Currently, a dozen books (12 pieces) cost over 3,000 Naira, and we are hoping to get them for about 20 to 30 kids. You can be part of this project; either by sponsoring, partnering, or volunteering. You are very much welcome. Let's do this together. Let's solve real needs. For more info, call or chat with me at +2348148202570. #lightapathfoundation #impact #SDGs #SchoolOutreach