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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss. government and states like Texas.

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Guest Post by Aspen Baker: Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. While the overwhelming consensus was that such behavior isn’t right, there are few laws on the books to address these scenarios.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Mountaintop Mining – Seeing is rejecting.

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Mining is in the news a lot recently because of the terrible tragedy in Utah where six miners are presumed dead in a mine collapse and at least three more have been killed trying to rescue them. You can read about it more in today’s New York Times. Obvious isn’t it.

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Observations from The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop, Month 1

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I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months. There was recently a New York Times article on the inverse relationship between expertise and ability to innovate. A month ago, I invited you to join this project. The landscape is foreign.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. The Marrakesh Treaty.

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