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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Research Friday: Human Capital Performance Bonds. What are they? How do they work?

ASU Lodestar Center

an intensive, year-long empowerment and skills-based training for the returning men, coupled with a marketing strategy of recruiting business customers to hire graduates of the program. State deposits investors’ funds in a ‘Performance Pool’ where they are held until payout terms are met by the nonprofit. The Risks and the Future.

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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. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways.

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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards

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Constituent Empowerment. Changed from brochure to interactive website, multi-facteed file building strategy and acquired over 1000 new names per month and have converted about 1% to donors in 6 weeks. 58,000 people voted (12% of total file) and acquired 9000 new donors, waising $50k usinge "soft" asks within two emails.

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"2008 is going to be a challening year." To quote Yogi Berra, "It's deja vu all over again."

Connection Cafe

Current economic conditions, the shift towards online marketing and the trends in donor empowerment make a strong case for investing in an effective online marketing program.". Direct mail-based donor acquisition is getting harder and more expensive due to postage rate increases, mailing list fatigue, and postal mail delivery challenges.

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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Constituent Empowerment Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society Winner: Children International Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. I did only enough of it to continue to fund this new addiction that I had, and also to keep up my frequent flier miles.