Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion. The Bookshare promise to American students with disabilities is that if they need a book for education, Bookshare will ensure that they have it.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

More importantly, apprentices are hired as full-time employees whereas interns are often unpaid, or at best part-time or temporary employees. Finally, a great apprenticeship program provides an outlet by which the apprentice can contribute to the goods or services that the training organization is undertaking.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By this point, suicide was a global health issue, and the United Nations and World Health Organization had worked to establish guidelines for suicide prevention strategies. The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention is a “call to action that is intended to guide suicide prevention actions in the United States over the next decade.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thanks to Microsoft Citizenship Asia Pacific , I’ve had the great honor to present a series of online fundraising and social media trainings to over three hundred non-governmental organizations (NGOs) throughout Asia Pacific over the last three years. In the United States this is called fiscal sponsorship.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. Amazingly, the organization has surpassed this goal and (as of this article) has raised $11,547.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer. Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that all people deserve "the right to seek, receive and impart information." The second part of my internship was outreach.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We have over half a million readers in the United States, and over 625,000 different ebook titles available for instant download. Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year. And, the U.S. Senate just ratified the Treaty!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. Amazingly, the organization has surpassed this goal and (as of this article) has raised $11,547.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Almost all of this was given to causes within the United States. However, the 5 percent given to international causes reflected a 15.3 Private and Voluntary Organizations (36%). Religious Organizations* (18%).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

I just got back from a terrific week in Austria at the International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs conference. My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

has found that Millennial donors prefer to give to social causes over arts or academic organizations like museums. The museums that see the most attendance from Millennials in the United States are the ones who don’t charge for admission. Melissa Wall is the graduate research intern at Achieve, a division of Forte Interactive.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. And, Benetech is committed as an organization to all of these six principles. In the U.S., But, it’s not the only one!

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. students at Stanford University. As most adults in the United States know, Equifax is one of the largest three credit bureaus.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

For March 8, International Women’s Day, ask your supporters about the women in their lives that inspire them. The Persian New Year coincides with the March equinox and is celebrated around the world (including the 1 million Iranian-Americans living in the United States). Have an intern who’s a lit major? Track Relay Race.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

" What’s in a word: Abundance, capacity, resource, network and community » ext337 – I really like this post from Marnie Webb, sharing her internal conflict working on the difference between words, like network and community. I couldn’t agree more with Katya.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 22, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. million nonprofits in the United States. What these organizations lack in size, however, they make up for in impact. These organizations often serve communities that have been abandoned by countless others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

E-Mediat is funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) of the United States Department of State with support and in-kind donations from Microsoft, Cisco and craigslist Charitable Fund. I met Dina Masri, a talented engineering student and change maker at the University in Jordan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Campus Party is the biggest technology phenomenon that almost nobody in the United States has ever heard of. It is a huge success in the Spanish-speaking world and plans to debut in the States, in the S.F. Campus Party organizer Futura Networks also recognizes that a big driver for young techies is…social relevance.

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2011

He lectures and publishes regularly on fundraising and philanthropy and will be presenting on “The Global Search: Current Strategies and Tactics for International Fundraising and Prospect Research” at this year’s BBCON in Washington, DC. I believe that depends on an organization’s geographical service area.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. 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.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2013

United States. International. It is a nonprofit online network connecting organizations in need of legal assistance with lawyers and also law students. The way it works is that charities, lawyers and students register on the site and create their profiles. Places To Find Legal Pro Bono Services.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

The Analysis Exchange is a first-of-its-kind effort to freely provide analytical insights to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations. Our success rate with these projects is incredibly strong, and Analysis Exchange results are being presented all the way up in many nonprofit member organizations.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

Nonprofits make up 10% of the workforce, making them the third-largest workforce in the United States. Closures and social distancing measures have wiped out organizations that didn’t have a rainy day fund. In what ways have you altered or reframed your organization’s messaging in the midst of the pandemic?

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

There was a time when that annual rite of passage known as spring break meant one thing for nearly every college student: the chance to let loose—usually in a warm climate—and party down. Perhaps it’s a community service effort such as doing rehab on a neglected park or establishing the internal logistics for a new meal kitchen.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Disclaimer: I shall start this post by stating that the internal views of this article are that of the blogger himself and not Gyrus Systems as an entity. Systems are capable of not only organizing Instructor-Led Training (ILT), but they now house E-Learnings, Gamification, Mobile Learnings, and alternative learning objects.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Atlasien of Upside-Down Adoption said she was going to become involved in a local organization for immigrant rights. Her resolutions include eating local organic food, teaching her students about healthier eating options, and volunteering at a community garden. I really liked this idea so thought I'd post my own: 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2009

Did you know that volunteering in hospitals is one the oldest volunteering traditions in the United States? The state of California alone has over 100,000 hospital volunteers. It's one of the longest traditions of volunteering in the United States dating back to the beginning of the colonies. online marketing).

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed. And the way that Brian and I know each other we’re strategic partners when we work with organizations.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

196 0s – Anti Vietnam War protests and the push for peace in the United States is well-known for the actions taken by University students and protesters, but also involved outspoken members of the business community. 2000 – The United National Global Compact is launched. Billion. . .

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We are often also asked to organize concepts (and tons of data) and suggest clarity in what feels like chaos. Likewise, questions that we use internally to foster learning and collaboration with colleagues and across departments are often about more than gathering specific data points. This is where history comes in.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally.

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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. Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Leadership / #AMI16 / @NPL_Alliance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Amnesty International. Because poverty and food insecurity is at record highs in the United States. Humane Society of the United States. Because they make it easy to find your local farmer’s markets and organic food producers. National Organization of Women (NOW). American Red Cross.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

What surprised me the most (you all probably already knew this), is that the Sudanese government officials who were close to Osama bin Laden (who lived there from 1991-1996) are cooperating with the American counterterrorism authorities, so the United States doesn't want to rock the counterterrorism information boat by upsetting them about Darfur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Non-Profit Chas shares his experiences as he helps take a small non-profit organization to the next level. Nonprofit Leadership, Innovation and Change: Christopher Scott is a nonprofit leader who founded A Day of Hope , a student based organization that delivers baskets of food and turkeys to families for Thanksgiving.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 17, 2022

A career exposure panel with Lehman and Bronx Community College students. She explored the African American experience and the open wounds of racism in the United States. Consider working with organizations like Year Up , Black Girls Code , and MLT , to create internship and apprenticeship programs.

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