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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about education programs in Second Life. Father and daughter have been co-teaching a Harvard Law School course in Second Life this past semester, called CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opnion. Professor Nesson will serve as the judge in both trials.

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2015 Jim Lynch Award Winner — Kyle Wiens of iFixit

Tech Soup

The iPhone repairability scores have steadily improved since 2007. If we open up most of our devices, we are usually violating the warranty and (in some cases) federal law. Library of Congress, working with the U.S. " The coalition's next battleground is rulemaking in New York, Massachusetts, and Minnesota.

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Got the Winter Blues? Giving May Cheer You Up

Have Fun - Do Good

Maya Angelou In December 2007, the New York Sun article, Why Giving Makes You Happy reported that: "According to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a survey of 30,000 American households, people who gave money to charity in 2000 were 43% more likely than non-givers to say they were 'very happy' about their lives.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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