Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. We’ve added over 1800 books since then.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.
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EveryAction
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Black Cat Rescue works to improve the public image of both black cats and animal adoption by making black cat adoption a positive experience for all involved, especially around Halloween when the focus on black cats is high. Born This Way Foundation. Star Wars: Force for Change. Union of Concerned Scientists.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 12, 2014
A federal district court ruled against the Authors Guild in October 2012, finding that HathiTrust’s process was fair use under U.S. In particular, we’re excited about the promise that the appeal court’s ruling holds for the expansion of our efforts to improve access to images. None of this is captured by the HDL’s text?only only files?is
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 17, 2014
students) with a collection of 220,000+ (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest library of its kind. we’ve gone from addressing a sliver of the “accessible book famine” to solving most of it, and we now deliver an accessible book to a student for less than one-fifteenth of the cost of traditional approaches. In the U.S.,
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 30, 2014
Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign in 2012? In 2012, President Obama responded to the activism, passion, and residency of the Dreamers, by issuing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to protect them from deportation and provided them with temporary work visas. We used powerful images and our timing was great.
Tech Soup
APRIL 25, 2014
Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. households experienced food insecurity in 2012, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. Images: USDA , USDA , marietta. But when summer vacation starts, the school meals end. Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty. That's 3.9 MILLION U.S.
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