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3rd Annual EveryAction Nonprofit Halloween Costume Parade

EveryAction

Launched in 2012 by music legend Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, the Born This Way Foundation develops programs that support its mission to connect young people in safe ways and empowering them with the skills and opportunities that will inspire them to create a kinder and braver world. Children's Literacy Initiative.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law.

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What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested. This individual works with program experts to apply what is learned from the data. But they have also made data literacy an essential competency for everyone in the organization. .”

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The Capacity-Building Frontier(s)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social media literacy and facility is a 21st century core capacity. (3) We need to give that up along with linear logic models that assume we can control all the variables in our world in favor of a dynamic model that is more like life – full of actions and reactions. (5) 5) There is reason to be hopeful.

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Award Winning Combinations for Social Change

Care2

The recent award winners of the 2012 Grinnell Prize are a great example. Embrace’s hybrid organizational structure also combines a for-profit organization and nonprofit organization in what Chen and Liang hope is a sustainable model for Embrace’s future social impact. "We Celebrating Silo-Breakers and Fortress-Razers.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Department of Education was to serve 100,000 students by the end of our five-year contract in late 2012. Based on hitting that number two years early, we’re now projecting that we could serve perhaps twice as many students, 200,000, by the 2012 milestone date. And the price to the Dept.