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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. Ultimately, this community should have equal access to all of the books that are needed for education, employment and social inclusion.

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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright law. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law. The deal was: help people with disabilities that can't access books and don't hurt the economic interests of the publishers (and authors). At Benetech, our commitment is to uphold that social deal.

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Benetech’s Framework for Developing New Social Enterprises

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Benetech Truths define our culture and focus our efforts on how we operate. To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities. Converting and delivering these accessible books was expensive and time consuming. copyright law.

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Better marketing for nonprofits

ASU Lodestar Center

An in-depth guide related to the target issues they care about, tools or templates, case studies, and ebooks are all great examples of this. The best marketing campaigns aim to influence culture. Join the open source culture. This means excellent content—not fluff, but useful information they can't find elsewhere.

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7 Tips for Navigating Nonprofit Accounting Compliance

Connection Cafe

Your primary focus should be making sure that your organization has a clear accountability structure for compliance, rather than a “let’s make a deal” culture in which issues are addressed only after they have become bigger problems.” — Lucy Morgan, Founder and Director, MyFedTrainer.com, How to Build Trust with Strong Internal Controls.

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[VIDEO] Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

Bloomerang

” Big Duck has a free ebook that will help you with this. The third element in your nonprofit communications engine, when you’re trying to build engagement, is having a culture in your organization that inspires positive experiences for staff collaboration and behavior. How are those things really different?”

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