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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

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At Benetech, we agree that braille is an essential literacy tool and that every child who needs it has the right to be taught braille. Granted, due to the limitations of fully automated conversion, this is not perfect braille, and we continuously work with experts to improve the quality of our Braille Ready Files (in the BRF format).

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

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Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K. In fact, more than half of all Twitterers use a third-party dashboard tool to manage their Twitter campaigns. These tools can be incredibly useful and innovative, but make sure that you commit to not wrapping yourself in a HootSuite bubble.

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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards

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Constituent Empowerment. Use of Convio's multi-lingual tools helped CI reach out to both English and Spanish speakers. Honorable Mention: HSUS - Humane Society of the United States. Offer $100k grant to organization with the most votes in their "Peace Primary". Created a wall of 5,000 signers' photos.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. I was reminded of how much we take for granted in our culture of excess, and how important it is to see that there are simpler ways of living and giving.

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Digital Platforms for Greater Impact: Examples for Foundations

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Foundations are in the business of making the world a better place by providing grants to organizations they see making an impact on the issues that they care about deeply. Images of Empowerment. Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018. Grand Challenges Awards Repository.

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

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Use of Convios multi-lingual tools helped CI reach out to both English and Spanish speakers.

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

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What we really believe is that there is a kind of new consciousness to consumerism in the United States, and as consumerism is sort of evolving, people are really thinking about how to purchase or consume, but at the same time make a constructive impact on the world and express their social or other kinds of values into the world.

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