Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

" Local humor aside, the project is exciting: 31 public parks in San Francisco will get free Wi-Fi for at least two years. The donation will cover installation and maintenance of necessary equipment, which will build upon existing free Wi-Fi areas, like City Hall and the San Francisco International Airport. century jobs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. The Center was established in 2007 by the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents, Human Resources.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. We too dersire more instruction on financial literacy. Pollak, T. & Blackwood, A. Washington, D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

July 24, 2007. It takes time, but does show results as the comments on the original Mashable post seem to indicate: Two years ago The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada established a presence on Facebook and incorporated guidelines for our Chapters to establish their local groups. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes. Frogloop Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. I think a large number of women's rights mobilizing efforts are really focused around building and strengthening economic independence for women.

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