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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. federal law supports braille instruction. Accordingly, U.S.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Our current model mainly depends on government and foundation support enabling us to provide free library services to members.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. We launched a global crowdsourcing campaign to collect homegrown solutions and ideas to spread digital empowerment. Today, she is using technology to help fellow trafficking victims.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

This foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness.

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2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

This foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness.

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The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Building on this concept, Beth asked nonprofit leaders to enter the contest by explaining what their organization’s singular, most important activity would be in 2011 that would at-once drive social impact, engage supporters and increase revenues. Underwritten by Motorola, UPS Foundation along with support from Verizon.

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Four Ways to Transform Organizational Culture to Advance Access, Equity, and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

The COVID-19 health emergency and the ensuing global crises only continue to exacerbate these inequities and drive colossal disruptions in the provision of education across the world — highlighting massive challenges that serve as wake-up calls for the social sector and catalysts for transformational change.