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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Is Spanish more your bag?

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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

NTEN

They hail from a wide array of institutions, including a food bank, city government, a refugee resettlement agency, multiple libraries, an adult literacy organization, and an organization that works with formerly incarcerated individuals.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. This week, nearly a year after first beginning to work with Room to Read, we’re proud to be taking part in promoting Literacy Day.

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Leveraging the SDGs to Maximize Your Impact

sgEngage

By breaking down each goal into consumable sections, we hope you will be able to maximize the impact of the SDGs, harness a shared language in seeking funding, and bring about greater change. It serves as a guide to navigating the information, how your mission aligns, and the attainment of each goal.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. and James L. With our Read2Go app, Bookshare members can now search, download and read Bookshare books and periodicals on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

Get Fully Funded

Hero language: When you tell a donor that your nonprofit wouldn’t exist without them, you are speaking the truth. Hero languages reinforces the idea that they made the right choice and increases the possibility that they will give again. But the rules are a bit different around IRS language. So why be shy about saying it?

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

We need hands on deck, so having to close our volunteer program was a challenge for us—emotionally, losing such a large part of our community—but we also had to find a way to keep them connected so that they would come back when our doors reopened. “I Volunteer programs are some of the most front-facing operations of nonprofit organizations.