Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo’s contributions related to the Benetech Global Literacy Program include: Overseeing the building of the tech infrastructure that has taken Bookshare from serving tens of thousands of members to over 300,000 members, with a rapidly growing collection of 280,000+ accessible ebooks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

We are looking for examples of youth blogging projects, i.e., cases where the organization encouraged, supported, and/or facilitated the teens in blogging (presumably as part of the organization's mission and goals, e.g., to help youth learn leadership skills, literacy skills, build community, etc.).

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Showing the impact of your organization by providing real life examples of your services and telling your story throughout the donor experience. Let’s look at some examples: Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester. Let’s look at some examples: Minds Matter of Los Angeles. Let’s look at some examples: FeedingNYC.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

This post originally appeared on Arabella Advisors'' Greater Good blog as part of the series Impact 2014. Bookshare today is part of a broader effort by Benetech’s Global Literacy Program to improve the lives and learning of students with the biggest challenges. Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

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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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

For example, you can start your prompt with “Write a heartfelt story for an 8-yr old about…” or “Provide a never-heard-before solution for boomers about…” Add personality : Don’t be afraid to give the AI an attitude or tone. Build a tool for your audience that helps with a task.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

But, everyone can raise their data literacy, especially visualization. So, as I curate resources on this topic, I was excited to discover Rahul Bhargava – a data nerd who writes the Data Therapy Blog for the MIT Center for Civic Media. One strategy is to find a data nerd for hire or to volunteer with your organization.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

Connect the dots and remind supporters that libraries promote literacy by offering free access to literature for all community members. For example, a library in Canada focused its Library Giving Day campaign on a Toy Lending Library. And keep in mind that simply capturing a patron’s information can prove valuable for future campaigns.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Junior Achievement USA is an organization with over 100 local Areas that empowers the next generation by providing lessons in financial literacy, work and career readiness, and entrepreneurship. Use these fundraising event page best practices to host your best event yet!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

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. Making content accessible for the blind has been a traditional example of fair use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

For example, keeping a journal of what you consume and taking incremental steps towards reducing it so it becomes a lifestyle change. His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. He suggests these goals: 1. Now, that’s inspiring!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2007

I love the photos, but I think you can better visually demonstrate the ideas expressed in the reasons - For example, "Blogging Connects Us To Global Conversations" - Why not a screenshot of Globals or this photo for example example, although it is all rights reserved, but you could ask permission).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Privacy has always been an important topic in digital literacy. Scott Pinkelman, digital literacy innovation specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia , recently presented on this important topic at the Digital Shift online conference. " Use concrete examples. Nonprofits: Up for the Privacy Challenge.

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Teach Internet Literacy Library 68

Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

For example, if they previously gave $50, you might give options of $40, $50, and $60 to encourage retention and increase giving. Check out our blog post that bakes down donor recognition strategies by different supporter tiers. However, in a general fundraising campaign, that can be too inflexible.

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Map Donor Guide Newsletter 52

sgEngage

APRIL 20, 2021

Whether your organization promotes literacy, shelters animals, or impacts another worthy cause, recurring donations have the power to increase your funds so long as you take a smart approach to optimizing your program. For example, you could share an anecdote about one of your existing recurring donors and the impact they’ve had on your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Here’s an example where I calculated the mean, median, and standard deviation of the age of people who were served by a nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. government to close the real prison and the other to encourage public discourse.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Today I’m going to share examples from Twitter – both good and bad. POOR Examples – How NOT to Do It. Comments : The link was the complete Tweet and it takes you to the @SanDimasRotary blog. Please donate today to raise literacy of deaf children! link] #nonprofit #literacy #deaf.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

For example, this summer, SocialCoding4Good organized “code sprints” at Google and LinkedIn during the companies’ volunteer service events, GoogleServe and LinkedIn for Good InDay. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. billion poor and unbanked.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

For example, if youre trying to reach new donors, consider participating in #GivingTuesday (in addition to running your year-end campaign) to help increase visibility by connecting to this broader movement. For example, consider creating a strategy for segmenting your emails and testing, this is a great resource from Kivi Leroux Miller.

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2017

The following blog first appeared on. Here are three examples: 1. For example, One.org. From literacy to blood drives, mobile awareness and fundraising initiatives work because they literally put your cause into the hands of potential donors and supporters, eliminating barriers such as time and distance.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Financial literacy is an area where “fake until you make it” doesn’t apply. This blog will be a great place to start, but if you find yourself praying no one asks you questions about the financials in your next board meeting, you may want to check out our Nonprofit Accounting Essentials course in partnership with The Charity CFO. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

New media literacy: ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to leverage these media for persuasive communication. Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines. In the example above, I discovered a turkey in the canyon.

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Skills Facebook Literacy Metrics 108

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

For example, if you’re hosting one of the aforementioned virtual fundraisers on Facebook, you can tell supporters about it through Messenger and invite them to join in the fun. For example, you can create a group for volunteers, new supporters, and even well-connected ambassadors. Amplify existing programming. Supporter groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just follow these steps: Go to Google's Blog Search. For example, I don't have a very common name, so I use (Katherine OR Kate) AND Bladow. Beth Kanter - Listening Literacy Skills: What keywords or phrases have brought you some insights? Amy Sample Ward - Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Gadget instruction is an incredibly important component of digital literacy as more people are accessing the Internet from their mobile devices. These examples are just a fraction of all the work public libraries are doing to bridge the opportunity and digital literacy gaps. Microsoft Corporate Citizenship Blog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This blog originally appeared on the Huffington Post In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women and children. Luckily, we seem to be too small, and our human rights activist users don’t seem to be a top priority for them!

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Burma Analysis Guatemala Law 168

Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The Open Aid Partnership , held Open Nepal Week’s Data Literacy Bootcamp, which gathered over 80 Nepali journalists, developers, coders, and civil society representatives to find, extract, and analyze and visualize public data. Some examples of NGOs using data visualization to tell important stories are also given.

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2011

Themes will reflect both a specific programmatic focus and an ongoing opportunity for growth – for example, Public Computing (vs BTOP grants). Make sure to check out our newest CoPs, Nonprofit Blogging & Community Technology. Also, check out the first free CoP webinar, Building and Maintaining a Digital Literacy Corps.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. Beth Kanter, Examples of How Listening Returns Value for Nonprofit Organizations. The most important listening literacy skills are.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

See these examples of what nonprofits can do with Box. Operation Hope : This financial literacy nonprofit uses Box as its primary content management system for all employees. Learn more about each of these organizations on the Box blog. How Does It Work? It has integrated Box content with its Salesforce implementation.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites. She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries. " Today, information is published from the 'bottom up' or from user-generated sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2005

fast forward six years and he is sitting next to me and I'm explaining blogs to him and watching vlogs together. and new technolgies in early literacy development. She came across my " Mommy, what's a blog " post when looking for examples of young children's involvement. in the practice. in the practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

I'm slowly finding my way back into a blogging routine among other routines that have been disrupted by the move. So, as part of getting back into my blogging routine or rather establishing a new one, I'd like to reflect a little on TWT20 interview experience. It's the everything is new, different, and not familiar.

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