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

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. federal law supports braille instruction. Accordingly, U.S. Accordingly, U.S.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2013

If your charity needs legal services it’s actually reasonably easy to find free pro bono help. Many law firms do much more pro bono work than 50 hours. TechSoup has had an ongoing relationship with the famous Silicon Valley law firm, Cooley LLP for several years. TechSoup’s Pro Bono Law Firm, Cooley LLP.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As the operators of Bookshare in the USA, which was made possible through a great exception in our copyright law here, we would love to make all of our books available to people with qualifying disabilities around the world. Don’t create a global Swiss registry of nonprofit organizations qualified to use exceptions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone. Ending the Book Famine: the Marrakesh Treaty The World Blind Union talks about the global book famine experienced by blind people, and the negative impacts on education and employment on many millions of people around the world.

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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. We see tremendous innovations in social enterprise, but these are merely part of larger, global changes in the ways in which society organizes itself to create public goods. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The Bookshare promise to American students with disabilities is that if they need a book for education, Bookshare will ensure that they have it. As Bookshare, we believe we can find money to extend the availability of our collection globally to the poor. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S. Richer countries like the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Students develop and run a business, gain confidence, academic support, and mentorship. The program also helps everyone build credit scores. Semi-Finalists ($100,000 grant winners).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Our Local Impact Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Ashoka 's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. They’re calling it The Fog.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. With guidance from content leaders, keynotes, and solution providers at the 2019 Marketing, Membership & Communications Conference (MMCC), we can help find the solutions you crave.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices contributed these $10 digital cameras. Here is what he wrote: I want a digital camera for helping attract more tourism for Cambodia. I really want to help tourism of Cambodia, I make friends with foreign people and try to attract them to visit Cambodia. Source: Denith Denith won a digital camera.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

The students are the children of the poorest families of Roteang Village and who participate in the Sharing Foundation's farm project. law of reciprocity). Bernadette Feeney, an adoptive parent, started her blog just to help with the campaign! Is that cool - the literacy school is green! Paper would be too expensive).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

All RCI customers can now call 800-939-6000 if you have trouble with your RCI equipment to get the help you need. We then pulled in the New Sector Alliance and some UC Berkeley Haas Graduate School of Business volunteers to really help us think through how to address the demand. TechSoup Global has had a long association with PCRR.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 17, 2022

By: Monica Bowie, Field Marketing Manager and Global President of BOLDforce and Vatora Godwin, Marketing Associate/Video Content Producer and Global VP of BOLDforce. Nonviolent resistance to unjust laws eventually influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This post was originally published on January 20, 2020.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2009

These three leading nonprofit organizations at various times enlisted Care2s support to help them in this great cause -- and as a result more than 100,000 of Care2s activist members took action to support the campaign. House and Senate both have passed the bill, and President Obama is expected to sign it into law on April 21st.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

Here’s a timeline with links to articles about significant events over the last century that helped form our current context: . These laws have protected millions of men, women and children from disease and death and have protected hundreds of species from extinction.” The protocol then went into effect in 2005. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

This long-rooted history of racism and stereotyping has conditioned AAPI’s unwillingness to ask for help: Asian Americans are the racial group least likely to reach out for help and are roughly three times less likely than whites to seek mental health help. We see you and we hear you. About the Author. Kaitlin Lee.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The term social enterprise is in common use globally to describe enterprises that have a social welfare intent. The social enterprise movement is a global one, so we hope that the measured approach of the USPTO to this application is echoed by peer trademark authorities in other countries. Social enterprise is descriptive.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. Cultivating Student Philanthropy. Cultivating Student Philanthropy. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Houston, TX / $250. Leadership / #AMI16 / @NPL_Alliance. Leadership.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Human trafficking organizations advocate for stronger anti-trafficking laws, provide services and support for victims of trafficking crimes, and develop long-term strategies to end human trafficking. The campaign object in Salesforce helps with monitoring Google spend, keeping it safely below membership income. Destiny Rescue.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

They moved to a transitional campus, and they began to add students and kind of expand their services to those students. And for those that aren’t aware in relation to the construction industry, you know, construction globally and in the United States has continued to grow and hasn’t stopped throughout the pandemic.

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

Your organization’s public disclosure of financial and tax documents can help instill confidence in donors, yes, but also grant making foundations, future hires, journalists, charity rating organizations, and the general public more broadly. How many students did you help? What pieces of legislation did you support?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Each one of these terrific people has committed to spending anywhere from a month to a year helping Benetech with his or her skills and passion. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. He followed up by launching another company helping startups find funding, write business plans, etc.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. And, Bookshare’s promise to K-12 students with these kinds of disabilities is that if they need specific titles for school, we’ll get them. Fast forward to today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Sometimes it helps to have a colleague or blogging buddy. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 22, 2013

In order for me to feel like I am Jewish and embrace Judaism I have to be helping other people and be making the world a better place.”. He told the story of a rabbi whose important lesson to his students is that each of us can teach us something. one student asked. My family is big on volunteering. And from the telegraph?"

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Gyrus

APRIL 10, 2018

Pre-qualifications discussions can also help you identify topics that were not in your initial product scope. This can also help if your requirements are heavily regimented and require an extensive time commitment. ” Educate on the Interworkings of the New Program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Our members envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. My friend and colleague, Adam Sterling, was a 21-year-old student at UCLA when he first heard about the genocide in Darfur, and then he was outraged and decided he had to act.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2017

This blog post will help you get prepared by arming you with planned giving terms and examples to help you carry the conversation! In a more global setting however, ROI has non-monetary objectives such as public awareness of a product or new sales leads. Have you established a planned giving program?

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Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

And philanthropic foundations can help fix it. Some 20 years ago, when working as vice president for peace and social justice at the Ford Foundation , I was approached by the Vera Institute of Justice about a global initiative focused on prosecuting the police. Policing in America is fundamentally flawed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

The Effects of Volunteering on the Volunteer , John Wilson and Marc Musik, 62 Law & Contemp. Autumn 1999)" There are so many resources available to help you give time, money, skills and stuff, it could probably fill a phone book. Write a thank you note to someone who helped you or made a difference in your life. Give blood.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

10×10 is global action campaign with a film as its centerpiece.Their message is simply this: Educate girls and you can change the world. amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research is dedicated to ending the global AIDS epidemic through innovative research. Southern Poverty Law Center :: @ SPLCenter. 10×10 :: @ 10x10Act.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

Inviting those people and giving them opportunities to engage with your organization and helping to further your mission. we were going to help each other get out of the ice. And the how millennials want to help. Surprisingly and excitingly, 47% want to help fundraise. Sarah: Yeah, definitely. It’s been years.

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