Nonprofits benefit from for-profit practices – Innovations for Learning and the TeacherMate Handheld Computer System

Socially minded enterprises get nimbler amid weak economy, stiff competition for donations

Seth Weinberger has built a local educational foundation into a million-dollar social enterprise serving about 30,000 underprivileged students in 15 states, proving that not every nonprofit is struggling these days.

Most of the growth has come during the past 18 months, when the Evanston foundation, Innovations for Learning http://www.innovationsforlearning.org/overview.php , launched TeacherMate, a literacy program centered on hand-held computers equipped with special software in English and Spanish.

Ann Meyer Minding Your Business

Full Story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-mon-minding-social-1228-dec28,0,496905.column

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TeacherMate Handheld Computer System

What if you could afford to provide a handheld computer to every K-2 student that would differentiate instruction, align to your core reading and math curriculum, and engage even your hardest-to-reach students?

http://www.innovationsforlearning.org/about_teachermate.php