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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world.

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bernie was represented last night by Marie Young of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. copyright law. Bookshare has grown tremendously from the 3,000 students that we were serving in 2007. In addition, we acknowledged the critical support of Bernie Newcomb who helped fund our International Bookshare service.

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Bookshare International’s Viji Dilip Profiled in Magazine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The staff I work with at Benetech are committed to the communities that we serve with our technology. When we received a grant from the Bernard Newcomb Foundation in 2007 to take Bookshare international, I asked Viji to become Bookshare’s International Program Coordinator. In countries outside the U.S.,

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities.

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Live from Convio Summit 2007 - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

”) requires nonprofits not to focus entirely on bringing people to the nonprofit’s site, but to expand this focus to include taking the NPO’s mission outward to other communities on the Web. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Post a Comment | by Share Article Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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iCommons: Artist Residency - Exploring Open Content

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. online community.