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America's Giving Challenge Days: Bloggers Campaign!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The America's Giving Challenge will award $50,000 to the project that gets the most unique donors. Our project on Global Giving focuses on literacy which is key to education and jobs for poor children. The literacy school runs three sessions a day for 130 children of Roteang village???s It's a route out of poverty.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! We’re also expanding our efforts to help more people in the U.S.,

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Words to Avoid—2023 Edition

Candid

For example, while we recognize the challenge of people still being in—and expressing—a pivot/unprecedented/back to normal state of mind, we won’t be rehashing that one this year. Chances are, even if you have, that’s not your actual title (although we recognize some job descriptions do use this language). Illiterate.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

There is a surprising number of nonprofit computer refurbishers in North America that now supply accessible technology equipped computers, and lately iPads and iPods to disabled people at no or low cost. There are statewide programs like Texas Center for the Visually Challenged and Assistive Technology Resource Centers of Hawaii.

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How to Maximize Success Stories Across Your Nonprofit’s Digital Channels

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The blog’s vibrant design and vivid language warmly invite readers into Rani’s narrative. WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. Through creative copywriting and compelling visuals , The Mission Continues brings Dustin’s challenging and encouraging story to life on their blog.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We work all over the world, and our Martus software has been translated into Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Khmer and other languages. We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on.

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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