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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Corporate Citizenship and Digital Inclusion: Empowering Communities, Nonprofits, and Public Libraries

Tech Soup

" Local humor aside, the project is exciting: 31 public parks in San Francisco will get free Wi-Fi for at least two years. Since 2007, San Francisco has been striving toward becoming a digitally inclusive city. project is focused on teaching digital literacy to young people so they can be prepared for 21 st. century jobs.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

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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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

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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Nonprofits Live: Online Collaboration on October 25

Tech Soup

Ken is currently working as the Worldview Literacy Project Manager at The Institute of Noetic Sciences. A student of various dialogue approaches, he was an integral member of the team that developed the World Cafe dialogue process and was director of community outreach from 1997 to 2007 for The World Café Community Foundation.

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A Big Thank You To Everyone For Supporting The Sharing Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This money will send over thousand Cambodian youngsters to school in 2007, plus cover a lot of the costs of the Sharing Foundation's educational programs which include a pre-school, khmer literacy program, English language program in the local village schools, vocational training (sewing school) and high school/college sponsorship programs.

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Philanthropy 2.0 Study Results Published on Mashable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

July 24, 2007. This integration has lead to lead to 7 Chapter groups communicating local news to their community and a national group with over 3,400 people sharing their stories and experiences. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes.