Online nonprofit organizations

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10 Minute School

10 Minute School is a non-profit educational organization created in 2015 by educator Ayman Sadiq and supported by Robi with a goal of creating an accessible place for people to be educated. The organization produces short lectures in the form of YouTube and Facebook live videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and tools for educators. All resources are available to users of the website. The website and its content are provided mainly in Bengali.

10 Minute School was founded by Ayman Sadiq in 2015. At that time he was a student of IBA, University of Dhaka and was inspired by similar e-learning websites like Khan academy, TED, Coursera etc. and he thought of creating a similar website where the courses would be taken in Bangla to help students in Bangladesh.

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Bits and Mortar

Bits and Mortar is an online organization of publishers who support brick and mortar game stores.

Bits and Mortar was established in July 2010, alternately referred to as a publisher's alliance, initiative, or coalition, which advocates for support of brick and mortar games stores. Founding organizations include Arc Dream Publishing, Cellar Games, Cubicle 7, Evil Hat Productions, Pelgrane Press, and Rogue Games.

Prior to their foundation, gaming publishers providing proprietary methods of supplying gaming documentation, such as PDFs, to retail customers of brick and mortar stores.Fred Hicks, founder of Evil Hat Productions and other publishers agreed to establish a non-profit organization to centralize the release and distribution of documentation. The Bits and Mortar initiative was eventually announced at Gen Con 2010.

Fred Hicks is quoted as making the following statement:

We love real, physical brick and mortar game stores, and we want to see them survive — and thrive — even as the digital content options for gaming become more prevalent. Today's game-buying customers want the best of both worlds: the portability of an e-book, and the lasting durability of one made out of paper, glue, and ink. They want to be able to support their favorite local game stores, and they want to be able to support their favorite publishers. The Bits and Mortar initiative is all about making sure they don’t have to choose one or the other. We want them to choose both, every time.

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Explicite

Explicite is a French online media. It has been created in January 2017 by a group of 50 journalists after they left I-Tele (now CNews).

Explicite is broadcosted via social networks such as Facebook live, Twitter, Periscope, Youtube and Yahoo portal.

Legally, Explicite is a non-profit organization (Les Journalistes associés - Explicite) featuring Olivier Ravanello (president), Élodie Safaris, Antoine Genton and Laurent Bazin · .

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GreatFire

GreatFire

GreatFire (GreatFire.org) is a non-profit organization that monitors the status of websites censored by the Great Firewall of China and helps Chinese Internet users circumvent the censorship and blockage of websites in China. The website also hosts a testing system that allowed visitors to test in real time the accessibility of a website from various locations within China. The organization's stated mission was to "bring transparency to the Great Firewall of China."

GreatFire has worked with BBC to make the Chinese-language BBC website available to users in China, despite it being blocked by the Great Firewall, by using a method known as collateral freedom that mirrored content on widely used content delivery networks, such as Amazon CloudFront and CloudFlare, so that it would be too economically costly for censors to block. The organization has since set up similar mirror sites for other blocked websites, such as Google and the New York Times, with a directory of links hosted on GitHub, which is currently not accessible in China.

GreatFire has been targeted with distributed denial-of-service attacks that attempt to take down the website by overloading its servers with traffic. In April 2015 it was targeted by a Chinese attack tool named Great Cannon that redirected massive amounts of Internet traffic to servers used by GreatFire.

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Khan Academy

Khan Academy

Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan with a goal of creating an accessible place for people to be educated. The organization produces short lectures in the form of YouTube videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and tools for educators. All resources are available to users of the website. The website and its content are provided mainly in English, but are also available in other languages like Bengali, Hindi and Spanish.

The organization started in 2004 when Salman Khan tutored one of his cousins on the Internet using a service called Yahoo Doodle Images. After a while, Khan's other cousins began to use his tutoring service. Because of the demand, Khan decided to make his videos watchable on the Internet, so he published his content on YouTube. Later, he used a drawing application called SmoothDraw, and now uses a Wacom tablet to draw using ArtRage. Tutorials are recorded on the computer.

The positive responses of students prompted Khan to quit his job in 2009, and focus on the tutorials (Then released under the moniker "Khan Academy") full-time.

The Khan Academy started out by creating videos that focused on teaching mathematics. Since then, the organization has hired more staff members and uploaded material in other subjects including history, business, science, the arts, and computer science. As of 2015, learning materials were created for over 5,000 different topics. It has content specialists which work with faculty members to write learning materials.

The organization's content has been translated to other languages for accessibility. The first official version was Spanish, in September 2013. There are also translations to the content contributed by volunteers. As of November 2016, Khan Academy has seven official websites in other languages, and 20,000 closed-captioned translations on videos.

In addition, Khan Lab School, a school founded by Salman Khan and associated with Khan Academy, opened on September 15, 2014 in Mountain View, California. According to Khan, the school "is founded on the belief that young people are capable of far more than society currently recognizes."

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Meydan TV

Meydan TV is a Berlin-basedAzerbaijani non-profit media organization. Founded by dissident blogger and former political prisoner Emin Milli in 2013, Meydan TV publishes news in Azerbaijani, English, and Russian. In May 2013, Meydan TV announced plans for broadcasting simultaneously through the Turkish Turksat communications. The word "meydan" means town square in Azerbaijani.

Meydan TV gained prominence for its reports and online broadcasts on corruption, human rights and other issues in Azerbaijan, which have been used by the international media, particularly during the 2015 European Games in Baku when several reporters and foreign observers were barred from the country. Meydan TV is a partner of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Several reports of Meydan TV were made with the support of European Endowment for Democracy (EED) organization.

During the 2015 European Games Azerbaijani channel Lider TV interviewed a local man who posed as a foreigner in order to create a "provocation". After Meydan TV identified the interviewee as Seymur Seferov, a displaced Azerbaijani citizen from the Jabrayil Rayon, the Lider TV report on purported foreigner went viral in Azerbaijani social media. In 2015 it was reported that several Meydan TV journalists were prosecuted, arrested or received travel bans (including Aynura Ismayil, Shirin Abbasov, Ayten Farhadova and Aysel Umudova). According to Ali Hasanov, Meydan TV website and several other media outlets were not following the accreditation rules for foreign media representatives in Azerbaijan approved on 18 March 2015.

On 9 April 2016, Azerbaijani website Haqqin.az accused Meydan TV of overestimation of Azerbaijani casualties during the 2016 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes. Meydan TV which put the number of military casualties at 81 instead of officially stated 31 compiled the list according to posts in social networks. Haqqin.az stated that soldier Aidyn Hasanov listed by Meydan TV among those killed was actually treated in a military hospital for arm injury.

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Pager Publications, Inc.

Pager Publications, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary organization that curates and supports peer-edited publications for the medical education community.

Pager Publications, Inc. was founded on July 21, 2014 in the State of Indiana as a nonprofit literary corporation by Ajay Major, Aleena Paul, and Erica Fugger. The corporation received its IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit designation on January 29, 2015.

The mission statement of Pager Publications, Inc. is as follows: "We strive to provide students and educators with dedicated spaces for the free expression of their distinctive voices."

Pager Publications, Inc. currently provides financial and administrative support to the following publications:

Pager Publications, Inc. also functions as a publishing house and has published the following books:

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Answer 8

PhET Interactive Simulations

PhET Interactive Simulations

PhET Interactive Simulations, a project at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a non-profitopen educational resource (OER) project founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman. PhET began with Wieman’s vision to improve the way science is taught and learned. Their stated mission is "To advance science and math literacy and education worldwide through free interactive simulations."

The project acronym "PhET" originally stood for "Physics Education Technology," but PhET soon expanded to other disciplines. The project now designs, develops, and releases over 125 free interactive simulations for educational use in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and mathematics. The simulations have been translated into over 65 different languages, including Spanish, Chinese, German, and Arabic; and in 2011, the PhET website received over 25 million visitors.

In October 2011, PhET Interactive Simulations was chosen as the 2011 Microsoft Education Tech Award laureate. The Tech Awards, presented by The Tech Museum of Innovation, honor innovators from around the world for technology benefitting humanity.

In 2001, Wieman won the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Eric Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle for fundamental studies of the Bose-Einstein condensate. After winning his Nobel prize, Wieman became particularly involved with efforts at improving science education and has conducted educational research on science instruction. He helped write Physics 2000 to provide simulations to explain his work in creating the Bose-Einstein Condensate. As he gave public lectures, some incorporating simulations, he noticed that "often the simulations would be the primary thing people would remember from my talk. Based on their questions and comments, it appeared that they consistently learned the physics represented in the simulations." He then used money from a grant from the National Science Foundation Distinguished Teaching Scholars program, the Kavli Foundation, and a portion of his Nobel Prize money to found PhET to improve the way that physics is taught and learned. The PhET simulations differ from the Physics 2000 ones because users can interact with the simulation to change conditions whereas the Physics 2000 simulations are just videos.

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Answer 9

Saylor Foundation

The Saylor Foundation

The Saylor Foundation (under its legal name, The Constitution Foundation) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC. It was established in 1999 by its sole trustee, Michael J. Saylor, who is Chairman, CEO, and President of the business intelligence company MicroStrategy. Since 2008, the focus of the foundation has been its Free Education Initiative which has led to the creation of 241 courses representing 10 of the highest enrollment majors in the US. Saylor is the author of the new book, The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything, which extols the open education movement.

The Saylor Foundation is known for its emphasis on finding, vetting, and assembling openly available texts and resources into courses resembling those of a traditional brick and mortar institution which are then peer-reviewed before being published. The foundation also funds the creation of new materials when needed, as well as through initiatives such as their Open Textbook Challenge. This content is always openly licensed for use by other organizations and individuals. The foundation is currently under the direction of Amanda Antico-Majkowski.

The mission of the foundation is to make education freely available to all. Guided by the belief that technology has the potential to circumvent barriers that prevent many individuals from participating in traditional schooling models, the foundation is committed to developing and advancing inventive and effective ways of harnessing technology in order to drive the cost of education down to zero.

On its website, the foundation offers 317 free, college-level courses, which are selected as typical courses in high enrollment majors at traditional U.S. colleges. The foundation's course catalog is designed to be as open as possible, with all content accessible without needing to register or log into the website. Their system has been described as "easy to use and straightforward" making use of a simple interface, clear directions and a visual representation of how complete course materials are.

The foundation works with consultants to design the courses. These consultants are typically university and college faculty members or subject experts. The course design process begins with a college faculty member developing a blueprint for the course. The consultant then researches open educational resources (OER) to supply the course with lectures, texts, and other resources. If suitable texts and documents are not found, the foundation works with faculty to compile new materials which it in turn releases to the OER community under a Creative Commons license. Each course is also accompanied by an assessment that learners can use both to test their knowledge and to officially demonstrate the knowledge they have gained. In the future, the foundation will begin issuing badges as a form of alternate credentialing.

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Answer 10

Team Albanians

Team Albanians

Team Albanians, also known as TeamAlbanians is a United States-based nonprofit organization aiming to promote Albanian culture and tourism and to connect with the Albanian diaspora.

The organization's aim is to promote the natural, artistic, historical and cultural values of Albania mainly in the digital community. The organization also works in connecting the Albanian diaspora, by organizing events or helping with the organization of events such as the Albanian Festival in Worcester, MA; sharing success stories from the diaspora; and providing opportunities such as giveaways. Eliza Dushku's documentary Dear Albania is managed by the organization. The Oscar-nominated film Shok (film) is also managed by Team Albanians.

Team Albanians has managed and/or helped with the management of the marketing campaigns for the following:

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