Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

My reaction was that this kind of advocacy work was a luxury we couldn’t afford. We were elated and eager to get to work. We didn’t have to convince them that students with disabilities had important needs. I was wrong. Against all odds, we—a novice bidder with a less than $1 million-a-year program—won a five-year, $32.5

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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. Accordingly, U.S. federal law supports braille instruction.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Each year, our staff marks the occasion by dressing up as some of our favorite nonprofit organizations as a way to recognize their incredible work and the start of end-of-year fundraising push with some fun. We're proud to work with Audubon on Halloween and beyond - check out the work Audubon is doing with EveryAction throughout the year.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

People with disabilities like blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, physical limitations and returning vets with brain injuries -- anyone who cannot simply pick up a printed book and read it. Whatever works for the reader who needs to read differently. Robin is why we have 700,000 books in Bookshare today. Not 70,000.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.” Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. and James L. and James L. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. As always, I’m delighted to share the latest Benetech highlights as we work on these ambitious 10X dreams! Bookshare is helping Kevin— who had suffered a brain injury—to keep up with his school work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. This summer, we will have three students working on Bookshare software for our users underwritten by Google’s Summer of Code program. I can feel it all over, it’s a hit!”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading. For veterans with visual impairments, traumatic brain injuries or other disabilities, reading standard print is difficult, if not impossible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. We called this idea Bookshare , which is now Benetech’s largest Global Literacy initiative. of America v.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms. In Authors Guild v. copyright law). copyright law).

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Work with local clothing boutiques and designers to create runway looks and sell tickets for your community to get a look at upcoming items. Students can raise money by selling products from a selected catalog that they can hand out to potential buyers. Brochure fundraiser Brochure fundraisers are a great option for schools.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

I’m excited to share highlights from our work and its significance for the multitudes we serve. students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. We know, however, that we’ve only scratched the surface of meeting the global need for access to books and information.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Getting the message just right will save you from feeling nervous about asking for money, rambling when you talk about your organization’s work, and boring your audience. Monthly donors make this work possible! Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Round three of #CelebrateAdobeCC — our three-month contest highlighting how nonprofits use Adobe products to spotlight their work and mission — is a wrap. Our third place, bronze prize goes to Literacy Services of Wisconsin (LSW). Our last round closed with more amazing submissions. Check out their submissions below.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2016

Modeling what already exists—in this case nature—is understandably a favorable strategy because, in most cases, it works. Depending on your taste, you might say this home is a work of art or a vision gone wrong. Four authors agree it simply doesn’t work. There are many forms of architecture that mimic nature beautifully.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

It was there that she discovered her passion for teaching others: "When I was working with kids with autism or ADHD, something happened within me where I identified with their experiences. New Heights, by promoting literacy through a wide range of programs, has produced radical results. Not every student can be reached in person.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

We have been helping blind and print disabled people gain access to books for over 17 years. These machines scanned books and read them aloud with a computer voice. So, the reading machine stopped working because it was halting before its voice synthesizer started asking for the current date. I sure hope so.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

” The Google.org sponsored project invited Bay Area nonprofits to share information about their great work to make a better world. The finalists are an impressive roster of charities from diverse fields doing great work in nonprofit technology. Google then invited the public to vote for the top winners. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

By providing students with funds for school supplies, coats, eye care, class trips, test fees, and athletic gear, InvestED has encouraged over 16,500 youngsters to stay in school in the state of Washington. million books per year. It has grown into an organization that meets the needs of over 1,500 student athletes annually.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

It's great when one of our team is honored for their work, and Carrie Karnos has been one of our top Bookshare.org volunteers for years, including being Volunteer of the Year. Working for an organization with a long, illustrious history, I am always curious about how other organizations got their start. Congratulations, Carrie!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

How to work together effectively. How to create harmony around different cultural approaches to work. Ken is currently working as the Worldview Literacy Project Manager at The Institute of Noetic Sciences. Some of the areas we will cover include: How to partner for a large campaign across multiple teams or offices.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

American Literacy is Iffy. Another way of putting that: Half of American adults can’t comprehend a book written at an 8th-grade level—which includes titles such as The Great Gatsby and the Harry Potter novels. In this case, students care far more about getting a day off school than a teaching conference. Use the Active Voice.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. " Braided River's director of development and communications, Lace Thornberg, told us, "We work really hard with a very little budget to have the highest impact possible.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Discovery Center is a one-hour simulation in which groups of students (grade 5 and up) role play in a realistic, interactive environment. The students are each given roles on one of three teams--the Oval Office, a military command center, and a press room. The topic is the invasion of Grenada. You will make history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

I'm working with an afterschool program/ctc lab to develop an instructional technology plan. The poetry program uses poetry books recommended by ReadBoston , one of the first citywide programs designed to help children learn to read. Use of blogs for student poetry journals and for instructor "mini-lessons" 2.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. On the opposite days, we work for a non-profit related to our study. The idea is that students get to put social justice-ee ideas into practice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

One joked about the nine months of follow-up work resulting from the five days at this meeting. We also agreed that we had to work harder at delivering our core common message that disadvantaged communities globally need much more than charitable handouts, they need access to the tools to help themselves.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Volunteer Auction Showcase the talents and skills of your volunteers by auctioning off their services, allowing community members to bid on tasks like yard work or pet sitting. Book Sale Promote literacy and generate funds by selling donated books, offering the community affordable reads while contributing to your nonprofit.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Here are some to consider: Art: Art auctions serve a valuable purpose because they don’t just raise funds, they also spread awareness and appreciation of the works being auctioned. They may be able to work with local stores or boutiques that act as sponsors and also get to show off their collections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. Fine writes about in her book Momentum. Go read it. Here's the key takeaways for me: * The capacity to be successful is an investment in time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

I've been working closely with Kevin Lynch, the CEO of the Social Enterprise Alliance, on countering the efforts of Salesforce.com to attempt to trademark the name of our entire field, Social Enterprise.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing. So when I started looking for work and being a grown up, I really felt that this was something that could help other young people.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The type of events that will work best for your nonprofit will depend on three major factors: Your organization’s mission, your available resources, and your supporter’s preferences. Dance-a-Thon You and your staff work tirelessly to bring your nonprofit’s mission to life. How do you choose just one? Use that to your advantage!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I just spent almost three weeks in Thailand and Laos on a combined work and vacation trip. As I said to the DDD team, we love to make our money work twice as hard by choosing social enterprises as vendors. And, when you travel, keep an eye out for a great social enterprise and make your money work twice as hard!

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