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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Earlier today, I attended the American Foundation for the Blind’s (AFB) National Leadership Conference in Chicago where I received the 2013 Migel Medal. And second, Donna McNear, the itinerant teacher of the visually impaired from Minnesota, who kept telling me that I had to go to Washington and talk to the Department of Education.

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Mobilizing Impact at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I had the honor of attending CGI 2013 where I announced Benetech’s latest Commitment to Action. I’ve just had the chance to reflect on how cool CGI 2013 and some of the ideas I’m still processing! We expect to significantly improve access to books that blind people in India need for their education, employment and inclusion in society.

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Martin Luther King Day 2013

VisionLink

Martin Luther King Day, 2013 I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. In the America I grew up in, Black children were educated in segregated schools, separate although far from equal. Copyright © 2013. Douglas Zimmerman President and CEO VisionLink, Inc. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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To bot or not to bot: Using generative AI in grantwriting

Candid

For example, you will generate quite a different set of responses if you ask for information on “education” rather than “STEM education.” 2013)… …and so on. 2013; Upitis et al., What you put in: Be deliberate in crafting the prompts you use with generative AI tools. Is it grammatically correct?

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Introducing the 2013 Communities of Impact

NTEN

As Amy wrote recently, many of you have told us that 2013 will be the year you really tackle the data at your organizations. (If The 2013 Communities of Impact (CoI) pilot program consists of two groups, both focusing on the ways that nonprofits measure, learn from, and share their data.

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Measuring the Networked Nonprofit” is 2013 Terry McAdam Book Award Finalist

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My second book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World co-authored with Katie Delahaye Paine and featuring a foreword by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen has been chosen as one of four finalists for the 2013 Terry McAdam Book Award of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management. She is a civil engineering major.

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Be the Voice of Relevance—Make Mission, Vision, and Values Fit the Moment

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If you are interested in exploring organizational trust on a deeper level, join us on March 2 for the.orgCommunity Leadership ColLAB at the OLC Education and Conference Center in Rosemont, IL. In 2013, CEO Reed Hastings committed to moving from being a content distributor to becoming the creator of award-winning productions.

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