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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Plenary Talk at the Eighth General Assembly of the World Blind Union Access to published information is an essential requirement for education, employment and full social inclusion. People with vision impairments and other print disabilities deserve equal access to that treasure of information.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. You can read more about the campaign on their blog.

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World of Good Launches Fair Trade Wage Guide

Have Fun - Do Good

At the click of a button, the Wage Guide converts ‘artisan per piece payment’ to a ‘daily wage’ and then compares the daily wage to international economic indicators providing advice on how to increase wages to meet these standards." Cross-posted from WorldChanging San Francisco.

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7 Nonprofits Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

With Salesforce record types, staff can store relevant information about each of these contacts while allowing them to change over time — all without losing data from the contact’s previous status. Salesforce Einstein and dashboards surface valuable member information in easy-to-view charts for steering growth.

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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 started out with there is that in this movement around ethical sourcing and fair trade, these are all products that are made in the informal sector. We entered into this thinking about, "How do we really help create stronger wage standards in informal markets?" You can find it on the web at worldofgood.org.

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Promise and Peril: Martus for Human Rights in Burma

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I recently had the pleasure of visiting one of our longtime Martus partners in Thailand, The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma ( ND-Burma ). ND-Burma, a Thailand-based coalition of over ten human rights groups, has been collecting narrative testimonies from victims and witnesses of human rights abuses by the Burmese regime.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

Christina Arnold: My name is Christina Arnold, and I'm the founder of Prevent Human Trafficking, formerly Project Hope International. One of the ideas that they came up with, which they started years ago with the Population Community Development Association of Thailand, was to have village banks. BB: What brought you to this work?