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First trip to China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm now on my first-ever trip to mainland China, thanks to the Hadley School for the Blind twentieth anniversary of their China school. nonprofit to have a China branch, but truly amazing that it's been there for twenty years. It's impressive what people in Hong Kong have done with their tiny patch of China.

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4 Global Higher Education Trends for 2022

Saleforce Nonprofit

For example, looking at trends in the higher education sector, 23 out of 43 Australian universities have appointed a new vice chancellor in the last two years. So what does this opportunity mean for global university leaders? Business Model Innovation. Learner-Centric Impact. Lifelong Learning to Lifelong Relationships.

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Client Spotlight: National Society of Black Engineers

Qgiv

The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is a student-governed, nonprofit organization headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia with chapters at universities all over the world. Eighty schools responded, many of which had similar initiatives at their universities, and students from all corners of the country came together at Purdue.

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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not only as a professional member, I served as a chapter president and on International Board of Directors for the past 4 years. Each year AFP organizes an international fundraising conference, attracting more than 4000 professionals from 60 different countries to attend over 100 different sessions over 3 days.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. When we started, we were creating an internal tool for project management and quality assurance. When we let this discussion unfold, it simply reframed how we looked at “internal” or “proprietary” data.

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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

. • We have been especially successful in receiving blanket agreements from major trade book publishers such as HarperCollins, Random House, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Perseus, Scholastic, Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as many university presses (including Cambridge U Press). Most publishers don’t say yes or no.