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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We see this with a much greater ability to lower prices, to offer all you can read subscription pricing plans, to choose to license content freely, to publish open access articles, and so on. We have over half a million readers in the United States, and over 625,000 different ebook titles available for instant download.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And, there were many projects that definitely fell under the RTF umbrella. I spread the word that Bookshare.org is now available to people outside the United States, albeit with only 3,000 copyrighted books today instead of 35,000, because we need to get permission from publishers and authors to share their books outside the U.S.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

I came back to the States after working in Nepal, and I took a job as a feature writer in San Francisco. Our office in Rwanda was supposed to be our next office opening anytime now, but because of the war in the Congo, visas and business licenses and things like that have been put on hold. That to me is the definition of success.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

And one of the bigger ones that we had to go through was also the fact that your office had now turned into multiple offices, sometimes across the United States, and having to deal with different networks. But there definitely are issues to pay attention to there. There are definitely tools out there that can help you with that.

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Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

Low-income people in the United States spend over 85 billion dollars per year on groceries; they represent 45 percent of food retail in this country. My life is definitely still hectic, as an Executive Director of this organization; there's a lot of administrative work. Thanks for listening!

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What does the future hold for your nonprofit in 2021? Look inside this crystal ball…

Pamela Grow

And we’ve emerged from the most divisive election year in the history of the United States. Far too many of them will view this as a license to abandon direct mail. And it definitely leads to happier donors. We’ve endured a global pandemic. Our eyes were opened to our country’s racial and economic injustice.

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