Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

Mineta introduced a United States House of Representatives resolution to proclaim the first ten days of May as Asian-Pacific Heritage Week. The first was that May 7, 1843 marked the arrival of the first Japanese immigrant into the United States. Donate to support their work here. Donate to the foundation here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

December 4, 2009 Benetech’s Reply Comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities The issue all comes down to human rights vs. money. The good news is that for any Microsoft Press book that a U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Benetech’s Bookshare initiative was founded to improve the lives and learning of people with some of the biggest challenges—those with visual impairments, physical disabilities and/or learning disabilities that prevent them from reading books and information in most standard formats.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As the operators of Bookshare in the USA, which was made possible through a great exception in our copyright law here, we would love to make all of our books available to people with qualifying disabilities around the world. It’s expensive to make braille books. This post is my own personal take on those expert recommendations.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . First Book. These are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on “awesome projects.” . The Barney Family Foundation. Change Happens Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

So, the student might be able to read only 60% of the relevant content, and have no idea about what the equations say. Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty. In some markets, printed books are receding into the past.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. Ensure that only people with qualifying disabilities get access to these books. Department of Education).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2020

I wish the book, What To Do When You're New , would have been published twenty-five years ago. The book, by Keith Rollag , is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations. The book, by Keith Rollag , is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

Many print-disabled people (people who are blind, severely dyslexic or a have a physical disability that keeps them from reading regular print books) see electronic books as a dream come true. But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Helen Keller, who worked for AFB for many years, was on the original award board for its first twenty years, starting in 1937. He started Computerized Books for the Blind the year before we started Benetech, and became one of our earliest partners. First, one of last year’s Migel Award winners, George Kerscher.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. For this IP system to work for all, it’s critical that copyright exceptions such as fair use be defended as a laboratory for creativity.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By this point, suicide was a global health issue, and the United Nations and World Health Organization had worked to establish guidelines for suicide prevention strategies. The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention is a “call to action that is intended to guide suicide prevention actions in the United States over the next decade.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 2, 2007

This will further the objectives of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), by supplying high quality textbooks and educational materials to students with special needs. As of October 1, 2007, we have ceased charging these schools and students anything to join Bookshare.org.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2018

I wish the book, What To Do When You're New , would have been published twenty-five years ago. The book, by Keith Rollag , is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations. The book, by Keith Rollag , is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer. Over 90% of these people live in third world countries, where books and newspapers in Braille or other alternative formats are very difficult to acquire. Thanks to Anna for saying yes, and for sharing her experiences!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 22, 2008

Department of Education includes overseeing OSEP, the people who are funding our Bookshare for Education project to serve every student with a print disability in the United States. I'm always amazed how she can chop and scan an entire book in under five minutes. Tracy's brief at the U.S.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds The goal is to get more people working to make this happen: getting access tech to every person in the world who needs it. talking about their research. I gave the opening keynote, on my main new theme, Raising the Floor. And that's just two examples.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 27, 2008

The biggest issue I'm still working on is one I mentioned two years ago: getting access to the textbooks in the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC). There are more than 8,000 textbooks and other instructional materials in the repository, but very few of these have reached students. did this a couple of months ago.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I wish the book, What To Do When You're New , would have been published twenty-five years ago. The book, by Keith Rollag, is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations. The book, by Keith Rollag, is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I wish the book, What To Do When You're New , would have been published twenty-five years ago. The book, by Keith Rollag, is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations. The book, by Keith Rollag, is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations. Rollag, Ph.D.,

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2013

With more than 80 million Millennials in the United States, this generation is challenging the status quo, redefining the way that people traditionally get involved with organizations. Since joining Care2 in 2011, Ashley has strategized with many nonprofits on the most effective way to engage with Care2''s members.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University. BackRubbing doesn’t work. The origins of what became Google began as a research project.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. In 2004, the United States passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , requiring schools to provide special education services to eligible students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

E-Mediat is funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) of the United States Department of State with support and in-kind donations from Microsoft, Cisco and craigslist Charitable Fund. E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2005

Whenever someone asks me if I've read a good book lately, I can never remember what I've read, so this year, I wrote down titles as I read them. But I can tell you that after reading this book, there is no way I will ever buy non-organic produce again, if I have the choice. This was the first book I read in 2005.

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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. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, which funds this magazine as well as eye research programs at universities across the United States.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

It isn't often that you can't wait to keep reading a book about genocide, but that is how it was while I was reading Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. The book is interspersed with personal anecdotes from Cheadle and Prendergast. has to say.

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2010

How You Will Change the World with Social Networking ," a new book from Berrett-Koehler by technologist and nonprofit consultant Deanna Zandt. Talking to strangers--what you've been told you're not supposed to do since you were a child--may also make us feel vulnerable as we share who we are as part of the work of change.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

My favorite historian, Peter Dobkin Hall , wrote a defining essay in one of his books that describes the "invention" of the nonprofit sector in the United States. But thinking and working as sector has become increasingly useful. Look at it this way. In a recent chapter on the history of the U.S. That certainly fits here.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Examples of rewards could be the actual project (if it is something like a book) or a free pass to a screening of a movie or production of a play. There are payment processing fees attached to this which work out to roughly 3-5%. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Examples of rewards could be the actual project (if it is something like a book) or a free pass to a screening of a movie or production of a play. There are payment processing fees attached to this which work out to roughly 3-5%. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Her resolutions include eating local organic food, teaching her students about healthier eating options, and volunteering at a community garden. Continue reading and learning about why genocide happens and what I can do to encourage the United States to be a part of the solution. Donate 5 % of my income.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if any of you work overseas you might want to connect with him as well, even, especially if you’re in the ministry world too. . Yeah, looks like it’s working. I was sharing with Steven earlier, you know, we’re working in about 20 different countries and are managing $50 million in development costs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. But, it’s always useful to explore the framework of one’s work. Sally and Roger's book challenged me to do just that. Credit: Martin, Roger L.

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