Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Benetech has some of the juiciest and most exciting range of legal challenges I can imagine: the great majority of our legal work concerns intellectual property and human rights. We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. Works Covered.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

As we have explained in other Beneblog and Bookshare blog posts, these are exciting times for everyone who has been working to meet the imperative to provide people with print disabilities equal access to published information. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you work for a nonprofit organization, you’ve likely heard that Giving Tuesday is one of the most important days of the year. billion—just in the United States! This post includes four examples of how you can raise funds and why they might work for your nonprofit. Your Best Peer-To-Peer Fundraising Campaign [eBook].

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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 Upgrading Voter Registration – "Approximately 24 million active voter registrations in the United States are no longer valid or have significant inaccuracies, according to the Pew Center on the States.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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

After the last WIPO session in November, the World Blind Union convened a group of experts to review the current Treaty draft and make recommendations to the WBU on the most important issues for WBU to work on in this next session. It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The biggest area of our work to date is for schools in the U.S., We embed the user's name in the downloaded ebook file, both explicitly ("This book was downloaded by Jim Fruchterman") as well as hiding the same information invisibly inside the main body of the book. Work directly with publishers and authors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, it's a dream that the commercial ebook vendors keep dashing. The Kindle2's text-to-speech feature wasn't something that actually worked for blind people, but you could imagine how a software update could make this into an incredible product. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn has many years of hands-on experience working in the trenches of nonprofit fundraising across Texas and beyond. These were modest jobs, many in campus offices working with university administrators and faculty members. It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer.

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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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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. We're starting to work with the makers of these devices to add support for Bookshare.org books, since they typically have text-to-speech capabilities built into them already.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

In the United States, 13.9% After all, this is a group of people who already support your work. Even if your donor profiles aren’t 100% complete, start your search for potential major donors off on the right track by working from information that’s as current as possible. They’re substantial funding for a nonprofit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The fact-finding public hearing and request for comments seemed to have two purposes: both to understand how Chafee is working and to report back to WIPO about the U.S. I actually think they’re getting less by stopping people from buying ebooks who are unlikely to buy audio books at higher prices. national experience.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 1, 2014

Create Content With Purpose: Think about what gets you up every morning and motivates you to go to work. 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). Why do you do what you do? Why should others join your cause?

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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. Osberg & Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works, 2015.

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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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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 13, 2010

The development officer needs to have a good working relationship with the CFO and the CFO must understand the role of the development officer. Linda is President/CEO of Capital Venture, a full service consulting firm with offices throughout the United States. Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

million charities in the United States alone and around 10 million worldwide. On the other hand, a unique value proposition speaks directly to donors about why they should support you in this work. Together, we can work to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.” There are 1.8

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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

He’s had chiropractic work because of his spinal injury, and can now walk, a little wobbly on his feet but so much better than he was. They felt it would work on an external platform as an engaging way to update our regular visitors/members about our penguins – our keepers are rather attached to our little penguin residents.

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