Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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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. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 10, 2013

Unfortunately, most companies won’t pursue projects without the promise of big profits and the people who need tech tools the most often can’t afford them. Senator, helped launch the Peace Corps and led the Corporation for National and Community Service. Gandhi, Technology and Economic Justice I often travel to Washington, D.C.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. Thus far, more than 75 countries have signed the Treaty, and in June India became the first country to ratify it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India. This campaign is a great example. Most donors were from Nairobi.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

3) People aged 60 and older make up 12.3% While NGOs worldwide will need to meet the needs of a surging youth population, simultaneously NGOs will be called upon to help serve the world’s elderly citizens. Source: Sapient. of the global population, and by 2050, that number will rise to almost 22%. will strain our global economy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

There’s a global book famine afflicting people with disabilities. 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. This one does. We just need the resources to scale.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In celebration of the occasion of getting to meet this huge hero of mine, I’ve outlined five ways that companies, institutions, and nonprofits can harness technological innovations to advance financial inclusion and empower the world’s most vulnerable people: 1. It’s making life better and business easier for people everywhere.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. we don’t have these kinds of barriers, and we’re doing a great job of getting people the books they need. So, in the U.S.,

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Socialbrite

MARCH 8, 2020

Here are some of the campaigns run with Donorbox: Some of the kids helped through the Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project. 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Bangalore, India. The software has powered campaigns to help it raise more than $436 so far. Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project. Conclusion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among other things, WhatsApp can be used to help facilitate team member collaboration, which has suddenly become much more challenging now that teams are having to work virtually due to social distancing. WhatsApp is a useful tool with which to apply the elements of good storytelling. 2) Information Hub.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Trish Perkins (TP): I was working with a disability nonprofit in Nepal that wanted to put together a database of people who needed their services. I was fortunate to meet some individuals who connected me to developers that helped me with the first prototype of the app. What inspired you to share what you had built?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2015

One attendee pointed out that the cross-border sharing of content wouldn’t be of much use unless you had the USA or Europe on board: that’s where a lot of content will come from for people with print disabilities in the rest of the world. Let’s hope the USA does ratify this year (I'm certainly part of that effort)!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

He lives in India. So Dr.Mani decided to try and help sponsor the operations. A group of caring, generous, passionate people who wanted to make a difference, reach out with a helping hand, change the world and make it a better place. He treats little children born with congenital heart defects. Heart surgery is expensive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To improve access and quality of education for 4 million children living in underserved communities in India. Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Educate Girls ● educategirls.ngo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This webinar was presented on December 19 to more than 1,900 nonprofit staff worldwide and focused on what’s new and next in online communications and fundraising to help nonprofits prepare for the future and embrace being an early adopter. WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India. The Rise of Messaging Apps.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Among the people I’m privileged to call a colleague here at Benetech is Viji Dilip, the International Program Coordinator for our Bookshare International service. Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. I said to myself what if?” Viji told the magazine.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Tweets with links have an 86% higher retweet rate and higher engagement overall because people are hesitant to retweet or engage with tweets that do not have a source or a call-to-action. Including links, of course, also helps increase traffic to your website. Include a link in your tweets as often as possible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The sad truth is that millions of people with print disabilities around the world continue to be left behind. In June, with the help of Stevie Wonder , we got a treaty that did just that: the Treaty of Marrakesh. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

TED gives me the chance to brainstorm with loads of people who gather to discuss ways to change the world through technology and design. Cooking a meal shouldn’t be fatal: clean-burning stoves, as well as clean fuels and energy all help combat this problem. Andrew, however, is also concerned about the 20% of the blind he can’t help.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 28, 2021

At Accelevents, we treat people like people and all people are equal. I think having the platform of Pride Month helps reach those with limited access to a world outside of their own, surrounded by people telling them they need saving or to not make the choice to be queer. That is it.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? 10X: ten times the impact. That’s what’s been on my mind lately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

But, if you’re like most people, you haven’t looked at your website in a while. If your website is outdated or the donation process is cumbersome, you will lose people and miss out on donations. The internet is the main source of information for a lot of people. That’s a problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

To enter the contest, readers had to share their " Theory of Change." Megha is a passionate human rights advocate in India and also lawyer. I am a lawyer by profession and presently a student of human rights law in my masters at India. Her blog is here. My theory for a change has some linkages to my law specific profession: 1.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

chair and UK&I managing partner Hywel Ball, for a discussion that focused on how to ensure young people receive the right education and support to help them fight climate change, both now and in the future. She believes that when people and communities thrive, business thrives.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people. Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that all people deserve "the right to seek, receive and impart information." Today, millions of people are denied this basic human right because they are not literate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Many of us will purchase hundreds of dollars in holiday gifts over the next six weeks, and with some conscious consumerism those dollars could also help some of your favorite nonprofits continue their work in 2012. Your purchases help improve the lives of tens of thousands of artisans worldwide. [ Shop 10,000 Villages ].

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2008

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. He's really helped us move forward with our India projects, thanks to our India project manager, Viji Dilip, who joined me there and who has made all of these great Chennai connections for us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. Adding video to your end-of-year online campaigns can help you achieve, and even exceed, your year-end fundraising goals. We know that video can connect people to the work you do every day in a ways simple text just can’t match.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2009

Meghani came with his two hosts and daughter, and at 86 is still keenly interested in learning how technology can help bring books to the disadvantaged. With Carrie’s help he chopped his latest book (a compilation of Gandhi’s writings) up for the Bookshare collection. Tags: India Meghani Bookshare Gujarati.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2011

And it was so much fun to watch people answering the questions and getting real time data to things that would help our project. We believe that if people will listen to each other they will understand each other better – and hopefully take steps as world citizens to build a more peaceful world. Understanding or weapons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The core of the design is "popular vote" - the group whose idea gets the most people to vote for them wins. I've just returned from a trip to India where there is a different approach to solving complex social problems using social media and the Internet. How can these goals be balanced? They are offering a small case incentive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

With this three-part blog series on our expansion of the proven Bookshare model internationally, we’d like to give you a glimpse into the ways in which Benetech provides people with disabilities around the world equal access to knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The phrase "Bottom of the Pyramid" refers to the largest, but poorest segment of the population or the billions people living on less than $2 per day, as first defined in 1998 by Professors C.K. I shared the story of how Pratham Books used Twitter to help get children's books to children in rural India. Tags: india.

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