Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Books with image descriptions will go back into the Bookshare library for students with print disabilities to use in their coursework.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I talk a lot about how technology can help create tremendous educational opportunities for students with print disabilities. Steffon, who attends Gadsden Community College in Gadsden, Alabama is a straight-A student who has made his college deans list each semester. You can read our full profile of Steffon here.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Thanks to the Pi's low cost, simplicity, and extensibility, educators and do-it-yourselfers have been buying them up at times faster than the manufacturer can make them. Libraries have also experimented with replacing terminals with smaller footprint Raspberry Pi computers. Beyond Learning to Program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

You all might have heard something about Robin’s dedication to helping people with disabilities that affect reading. The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. We thought the publishers might help. Make it bigger. Make it talk.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

They lack the books they need for education, employment, and social inclusion. I have good news: For $5 million a year, we can build a global library that provides tens of millions of people around the world who are blind, low vision, or dyslexic free access to books that will work for them. We can scale quickly.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Benetech’s Bookshare library is living proof that real, transformative change happens through partnerships and by helping people unleash their talents and energies. As a result, people with disabilities were left behind, facing insurmountable barriers to opportunities in education, employment, and social inclusion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 4, 2015

Tomorrow is an exciting day for our Bookshare online library for students with dyslexia or visual impairments. We love reading, and we know how important being able to read a book is to educational and employment opportunity. Spread the word to people who care about reading, and about educational opportunity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Thanks again!

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

There’s a plethora of seasonal themes to base your fundraisers around that can help you entice your supporters’ giving spirit into full bloom. Here’s a list of spring fundraising ideas to help you celebrate the season with your supporters: Spring fundraising ideas 1. Trash cleanup Spring cleaning shouldn’t be limited to homes!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. Raman of Google Research, a long-time Bookshare member and advisor, was on hand to help us celebrate last night.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. government and states like Texas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

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. This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone. And that’s how Bookshare was founded.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

We use technology today to help hundreds of thousands of students with disabilities succeed in school, as well as help human rights activists around the world document abuses and seek justice. We must help ensure that every report of abuse is a tool for justice.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

Taking Education to New Heights. Pamela Clark began New Heights Educational Group in 2006, as part of a lifelong commitment to education. Pamela, inspired by her grandmother, saw an obligation to fight against these problems through education. What do you have that can help? Inspiring Optimism Through Results.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Pottsboro Area Library in Texas. We of course got lots of great stories, and our winner is the Pottsboro Area Library. When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Bookshare is helping Kevin— who had suffered a brain injury—to keep up with his school work. But what about everybody else?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

I just attended two days of meetings in Washington DC on the first year of the DIAGRAM Center , held at the Office of Special Education Programs in the Department of Education. The goal is to be able to gain access to the same learning a sighted student would get from that diagram.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The cost of prototyping and deploying new technology tools is now extremely low and data has the potential to accelerate social progress in areas ranging from poverty to human rights, education, health, and the environment. We first understand those we aspire to help and the real-world conditions in which they live and operate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

She runs a for-profit social enterprise named Daproim that provides data entry services using disadvantaged students as their primary workforce. Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. and we needed more help. We go way back with her firm.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Accordingly, U.S.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, training is esse ntial to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Whether your organization is training its own staff in nonprofit management, or teaching others technical skills, TechSoup can help you get started. Organize software trainings for your library computer lab.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

What I liked most was the idea to create a body of knowledge that’s truly helpful to prospective and emerging social entrepreneurs. I hope this discussion helps other social enterprises examine and develop their own frameworks. Benetech’s New Project Framework helps us identify the next projects to work on.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

And though they use the massive sets of data they collect to help create a better experience for their consumers (such as customized ads or tailored movie recommendations), their primary goal is to use what they learn to maximize profits. We don’t know if the student ever gets past Chapter 1. Talk about Big Data!

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

We have helped over 11,000 people become Certified Nonprofit Professionals and more than 15,000 other leaders in the sector to advance specific skills with virtual training resources. Investing in your own training not only helps your personal career, but it can also help advance the mission you’re so passionate about as well.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

The HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) is a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created (with help from Google ) a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Consequently, it is reasonable for the Libraries to retain both the text and image copies. only files?is

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Migel, whose experiences with blindness caused during World War I, led to him helping start the Foundation. I especially want to acknowledge two people who helped make this award possible. And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea. Washington?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people who are blind or otherwise disabled when it comes to reading print. The deal was: help people with disabilities that can't access books and don't hurt the economic interests of the publishers (and authors). Department of Education). copyright law.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. RAN is establishing Resilience Innovation Labs within participating universities throughout Africa, coupled with online laboratories and a new online science library to help with its work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

CityOptions is an environmental initiative to help local governments—particularly small and mid-sized ones—plan and execute effective sustainability initiatives. We’re thrilled that students and other readers who have disabilities that keep them from reading standard print can now read the same books as their peers, using the same devices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. A fundraising thermometer can help your fundraisers visualize how well the read-a-thon is going and how much they’ve raised.

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CauseVox

MAY 6, 2021

This shows that your donation receipt is more than just a record of their transaction, it’s the opportunity to use your receipt to give your donor’s a great experience that will leave a lasting impact post-donation, helping you cultivate long-term relationships with donors. Loma Public Education Fund’s Keep!

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. Even in the U.S., Back to School in Brazil. spanhidden.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn has been part of the Qgiv extended family since 2019—we proudly partner to help make a difference in our communities. Would volunteering help? CA: During both my undergraduate and graduate degrees, I held a variety of part-time jobs to help defray my college expenses. Q: Will it help to become a volunteer?

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Achieve

JUNE 11, 2020

While it is true that some of your supporters may be experiencing hardships, many of them will probably want to help you. Remember – your donors can’t help you if you don’t ask. . EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY – TEXT-TO-GIVE . major impact they have on over 122,000 students. right in our backyard. .

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