VisionLink

AUGUST 7, 2015

Available 24x7x365, it meets the unique needs of Nevadans and those working in Nevada’s primary industry, hospitality. VisionLink is honored to work with Nevada 2-1-1, helping to provide communities with humanitarian inspired software and consulting.

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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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sgEngage

AUGUST 24, 2023

Over a third of adults in the United States are now using health apps or wearable devices to track their activities, making it easier than ever to monitor progress, set goals, and stay motivated. Participants track the number of pages they’ve read or books they’ve completed on a leaderboard to support literacy and education.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Benetech has some of the juiciest and most exciting range of legal challenges I can imagine: the great majority of our legal work concerns intellectual property and human rights. We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

Connect the dots and remind supporters that libraries promote literacy by offering free access to literature for all community members. These should be true success stories with local characters and positive outcomes to showcase the amazing work your library is doing for the community.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

Here's a roundup of recent work to address this issue. There are new and interesting things in the works. Organizations Doing Notable Digital Inclusion Work. They will create and promote digital literacy programs. Every Public Library in the United States. Nearly a third of U.S. spanhidden.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 8, 2022

In the United States, the school year traditionally starts in the fall and ends in the spring. JA teaches students financial literacy, professional skills, and everything else they need to become independent adults in both in-school and after-school programs. National Back to School Month History. Junior Achievement.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

The Communicator Awards honor excellence in innovation and creative work in marketing and communications. Forum One worked with the NMAAHC team to design and launch the Talking About Race section of the website, extending our design system and inviting user experience to share relevant and engaging resources for diverse audiences.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

I’m excited to share highlights from our work and its significance for the multitudes we serve. 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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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. For this IP system to work for all, it’s critical that copyright exceptions such as fair use be defended as a laboratory for creativity.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. Grant research tip : As you look over the list and peruse potential funders, take notes of those who best align with your work. Mellon Foundation. The Andrew W. They provide education tailored to girls’ needs. Areas served: Worldwide.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2016

In The Tech That Will Change 2016 , I boldly predicted that this is the year that the digital divide will finally be bridged in the United States. Many nonprofits and libraries all across the country are doing great work around digital inclusion. a-month home broadband. Well, the FCC did it!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2016

In The Tech That Will Change 2016 , I boldly predicted that this is the year that the digital divide will finally be bridged in the United States. Many nonprofits and libraries all across the country are doing great work around digital inclusion. a-month home broadband. Well, the FCC did it!

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 3, 2010

A large percentage of grant opportunities in the United States are available to the public through one of two websites: grants.gov and foundationcenter.org. Grants.gov is a clearinghouse for information on grant opportunities for all grants offered by the United States government. Let’s try to speed up your search.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. He went on to become Benetech’s Vice President of Human Rights and led our human rights work for nine years. Photo credits: Rom Srinivasan and Patrick Ball.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 23, 2017

From improving literacy to helping communities recover after natural disasters, nonprofits take on vital roles to do good in the world. million nonprofits registered in the United States, which includes private foundations, public charities, chambers of commerce and civic leagues. There are currently over 1.5

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

They solicit community members to volunteer, bring them into mission activities, and broadcast their work to the public. We held 33 virtual focus groups (via Zoom) with 181 CVAs in the United States and Canada. Maybe they only have one or two devices in the house, and somebody is at school; somebody is at work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

It's great when one of our team is honored for their work, and Carrie Karnos has been one of our top Bookshare.org volunteers for years, including being Volunteer of the Year. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, which funds this magazine as well as eye research programs at universities across the United States.

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Top Nonprofits

MAY 6, 2021

I have been working in the social change sector for over 30 years and have always been interested in how we can increase our scale and increase our impact. But, if you step back and you look at the bigger societal problem, like say you’re working on, early childhood education or hunger or poverty, look back at the bigger picture.

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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] Responses from NMI students and alumni reveal that 94% say NMI courses are relevant to their daily work. We too dersire more instruction on financial literacy. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Since May 2007, he and his crew have aided thousands of victims at 15 sites across the United States -- free of charge." Today, she offers hundreds of children who work in Phnom Penh's trash dump a way out through free schooling and job training." Maria Da Silva "Has lost 14 family members to AIDS.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

As I've explored this field over the years one of the many surprising things about it I've discovered is the work that computer refurbishers have quietly been doing. It's the story of one person, founder Yvette Marrin, working with a disabled little girl and achieving major breakthroughs using a computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Do you have a special techie in your life who works for a nonprofit? Your donation will help the organization reach more children in poor, rural communities in the United States through early childhood education, literacy, physical activity and nutrition programs. Why not send some geek love from NTEN ?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 6, 2004

Bookshare.org is a place on the Internet where people can work together to make accessible books available to the blind. Bookshare.org also gets many books from other active volunteers who share our passion for independent literacy, as well as directly from publishers. Blind people pick the books in Bookshare.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Keep doing what works but kn ow and plan like it isn’t going to work forever. Carie Lewis from the Humane Society of the United States has used this approach with impressive results over the last three years. She references the work of Jennifer Aaker at Stanford University and her research that supports this notion.

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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. t feel I can ever balance my online life with being a parent and working full time the way I would like to. tools and my outlook on literacy, available information, research, and cross-referencing opinions has changed completely.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

I've been working closely with Kevin Lynch, the CEO of the Social Enterprise Alliance, on countering the efforts of Salesforce.com to attempt to trademark the name of our entire field, Social Enterprise.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In some of the places where we work, women are very often not in professional roles whatsoever, much less the media. BB: What is the path that brought you to this work personally? I came back to the States after working in Nepal, and I took a job as a feature writer in San Francisco. We are pushing an envelope there.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I just spent almost three weeks in Thailand and Laos on a combined work and vacation trip. As I said to the DDD team, we love to make our money work twice as hard by choosing social enterprises as vendors. And, when you travel, keep an eye out for a great social enterprise and make your money work twice as hard!

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2022

Forum One has worked as a digital strategic partner to PCORI since 2013 to help the organization establish its identity and extend its reach online, providing services spanning digital strategy, user experience, design, Drupal development, analytics, and ongoing support and optimizations. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

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. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work. Our work in Liberia, funded by the State Department in support of the Truth Commission (TRC) continues.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

We place ourselves in the social justice work here in the Bay Area as a training center. Our political education starts on a very basic level by identifying the systems of oppression that we live under here in the United States. We definitely promote an organizing orientation to education work.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

To this day, it is still considered one of the finest works in the history of Japanese literature. Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga (under her literary pseudonym Gabriela Mistral) was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature for her poetic work, Sonnets of Death. Gabriela Mistral. Do you love ladies in literature?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Bookshare is legal in the United States because our copyright law includes an exception that allows nonprofit organizations like Benetech to make accessible versions of books for people with print disabilities without requesting permission or paying a royalty. Wonderful stuff. Our concerns are just one set out of many.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

An example of this emerging philanthropic approach to redistribute wealth and democratize power can be seen in CRUS’ partnership with We-Care Foundation, a Liberian nonprofit organization, and support of its First Literacy Initiative (FLI) a holistic, home-based program that empowers parents and caregivers as their children’s first teachers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

As a feminist, and as a feminine feminist, I truly believe that we don't do a very good job in the United States of believing that you can lead by serving, and I think the United States needs to think deeply about being in service of the rest of the world." It works in over 160 countries around the world.

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