Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

This has created the ironic situation where blind people, who because of their disability require access to digital copies, have been effectively locked out of purchasing ebooks for the last decade. Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. The recent Indian copyright amendment that creates an exception similar to Section 121 in the United States, which makes it possible for us to set up a Bookshare-style crowd-sourced library in India with local partner NGOs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. Do you know any people with print disabilities living outside the United States? Moreover, earlier this year we began offering books in MP3 format. Make sure they know they are probably qualified to join Bookshare!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

We don’t think it changes who qualifies for Bookshare in the United States, though, but we’re delighted that it clearly included people with learning disabilities like dyslexia, who represent over 75% of our current users in the United States. It’s consistent with existing U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

The increasing focus on digital content, rather than its printed form, and the shift to electronic distribution of ebooks pave new avenues for removing the barriers to accessibility. At Benetech, we want to ensure that in this brave new world of digital content, braille is as available as any other ebook format to those who want it.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

" Get the free ebook "The State of Event Marketing" at: [link]. Upgrading Voter Registration – "Approximately 24 million active voter registrations in the United States are no longer valid or have significant inaccuracies, according to the Pew Center on the States.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

billion—just in the United States! Your Best Peer-To-Peer Fundraising Campaign [eBook]. Qgiv: [Free Ebook] 2020 #GivingTuesday Ultimate Guide. Qgiv put together a free ebook packed full of helpful resources. In 2020, nonprofits raised $2.47 Kindful customers raised more than $11.4 Exciting, right?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

In the United States, the battle for equal access has moved beyond access to library services under a copyright exception to a battle for the ability to buy an accessible ebook on the same terms as people without disabilities. Don’t create a global Swiss registry of nonprofit organizations qualified to use exceptions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, it's a dream that the commercial ebook vendors keep dashing. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. If Kindle ebooks were available on the Web, other developers could fix many of its limitations such as lousy support for images, problems with complex layouts, inaccessibility.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

We think that all publishers should sell accessible ebooks when they sell their books through mainstream channels, but the copyright exception leaves that decision to the publishers except for this narrow community of people who are significantly disabled when it comes to print.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

While we are providing the document as a PDF file also, ebooks are easier to resize fonts and thus easier to read, especially on an e-ink device. We chose EPUB and MOBI as the two formats most popular in the United States. We recently updated our book, The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning and Recovery.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

GPA chapters are located across the United States. And download a free copy of Qgiv’s eBook: Grant Writing Toolkit. There are quite a few professional associations today that can help you “network” and keep you on top of your game. You might attend a few meetings as a guest, to see if you like it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

We recently had a big article in SpeakUP, the journal of the United States Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. People with physical disabilities such as those from cerebral palsy often get significant benefits for access to alternative text.

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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. Isn’t it ironic that the people who most need access to digital books have been so discriminated against in utilizing them!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 1, 2014

Humane Society of the United States does a fantastic job of using social media to build awareness and start conversations (I mean, just check out their RTs). For more advice on acquiring new donors online, check out the latest npEXPERTS eBook! Create a short video about it. Take Pictures. Put yourself out there.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

That worries me, because I don’t think I’ve heard about a groundswell of demand for changing Chafee in the United States, other than when one textbook publisher's representatives get up in public and sound like banking executives from five years ago (if the government would just stop regulating us, we'd take care of everything).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The first was the ebook. Fundamentally, the Arkenstone Reader allowed blind people to create their own personal ebook as a text file that could be read in something like Microsoft Word. These formats now underpin the ebook industry of today. So, in the United States, Benetech created a second equilibrium change.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 13, 2010

Linda is President/CEO of Capital Venture, a full service consulting firm with offices throughout the United States. Linda’s first eBook, Everything You Wanted to Know about Capital Campaigns is available on her website and she is currently working on several more books. Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

In the United States, 13.9% Ebook The Annual Fund Giving Guide: Planning an Annual Campaign Learn More Check Planned Giving Donors What Is This Strategy? Due to their size, major gifts can be game-changers for fundraising teams. They’re substantial funding for a nonprofit. How Are Major Donors Identified?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Recently, I was onsite with a client of mine who’s pioneering this experiment on the largest scale in the United States. This organization has a three way agreement with themselves, the state, and large private investors about how the organization’s work will realize a return on investment for both outside parties.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

million charities in the United States alone and around 10 million worldwide. For more details about this process and examples, download the free eBook “Discovering Your Nonprofit’s Unique Value Proposition: A Step-by-Step Guide.” There are 1.8 That’s a significant amount of competition to rise above.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We received votes from all over the world including Iceland, Estonia, Israel, Germany, Poland, Chile, England, Brazil and Australia, with the most international votes coming from the United States. Free eBook: Seven Tips to Increase Online Fundraising Success. Draco won, closely followed by Mo, again!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

However, for those nonprofits that have purchased the ebook version of Mobile for Good it is impossible to use the checklist since ebooks are static in their functionality and content. Create ads for your text-to-give and mobile alert campaigns for print materials. ? Sign up for Google for Nonprofits and Google Wallet. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

For those who have purchased the ebook of Mobile for Good , it is impossible to use the checklist since ebooks are static in their functionality. Interactive, web-based ebooks will transform publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the checklist below in Word document. .

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