Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading. Here in the United States, we’re especially focusing on expanding our efforts to help more disabled veterans.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. They work with colleges, universities, and other organizations that embrace equity in higher learning, with a focus on historically underserved populations, including nontraditional and incarcerated students. . Areas served: Worldwide.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. We have over half a million readers in the United States, and over 625,000 different ebook titles available for instant download.

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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. We called this idea Bookshare , which is now Benetech’s largest Global Literacy initiative. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] NMI students agree; however, they additionally rank high their interest in learning about strategic planning, board governance, grant writing, marketing, program evaluation, and social entrepreneurship. Stay tuned.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We held 33 virtual focus groups (via Zoom) with 181 CVAs in the United States and Canada. A volunteer manager with a hospice in Washington state added some nuance to the conversation around technology and accessibility: Thank you so much for bringing up the accessibility piece. The Big Theme and Conclusion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, which funds this magazine as well as eye research programs at universities across the United States. During Arkenstone's 11 years, Benetech sold literacy products under the Arkenstone brand in more than a dozen languages to over 35,000 individuals in 60 countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

While I was in college, I moved to the United States, got married and had three daughters. tools and my outlook on literacy, available information, research, and cross-referencing opinions has changed completely. Many of the tools available are especially useful to the foreign language teacher and student.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

On behalf of our nonprofit organization, Benetech, and the thousands of similarly situated social enterprises in the United States, we are writing to support this rejection. In addition, we hope to supply the Examiner additional information that may be relevant in reviewing this and similar applications in the future.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

This Thanksgiving week in the United States, it seems timely to be thankful for the great work being done by these outstanding social entrepreneurs. All of the staff have name badges identifying them either as students or teachers. I especially appreciate Big Brother Mouse because of their shared focus on access to literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books.

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