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University Presses Cooperate with Bookshare

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We have been very lucky to continue to partner more closely with the publishing industry, as a major segment of educational publishers come on board with Bookshare: the university presses. We're delighted to be working with these top university presses to meet this crucial need through Bookshare.

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How To Harness Your Experiential Intelligence

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Digging deeper: Mindsets : Your attitudes and beliefs about yourself, other people and the world. Many organizations haven’t fully tapped into the mindsets, abilities, and know-how that inherently exists across their people and teams. Developing XQ helps people become better leaders. Know-how : Your knowledge and skills.

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Winning Elections Without Losing Everything: A conversation between The Othering and Belonging Institute’s john a. powell and M+R Win’s Christian LoBue

M+R

The temptation to reduce people and groups to caricatures and strip away their humanity, to punish or humiliate those who try to bridge across differences, and to let ourselves get caught up in the win-at-all-costs mentality is real. The stakes are high, and the path to victory often seems strewn with the wreckage of ethical compromise.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Today, people of color and low-income communities are more likely to be impacted by natural disasters, live close to hazardous waste, and die of environmental causes.

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Force Multiplier Podcast Episode 4: Housing Stability

Saleforce Nonprofit

So why do we call people experiencing housing instability “homeless”? And there are more than 500,000 people in America experiencing housing instability on any given night. It also has one of the highest rates of people experiencing homelessness in the country. Few of us define ourselves by the structures we live in.

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A Guide to bbcon 2022 Virtual for Higher Education Professionals

sgEngage

Keynote speakers include Glennon Doyle , New York Times bestselling author, activist, philanthropist, and host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast; and Simu Liu , actor, writer, producer, and one of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People of 2022.” Matthew Ewing—Vice President for Advancement at Boise State University.

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Foundations step up funding to bolster trust in local news 

Candid

In Sacramento, California, the James B. A survey by the Knight Foundation and Gallup found that “emotional trust” in news organizations is meaningfully linked to whether people want to pay to receive news coverage and to their confidence in American democracy. million to 44 POC-led and -serving organizations.

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