Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

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. However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. Works Covered.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Anyone can access free on-demand and live trainings from experts who have experienced common challenges working in the nonprofit field. And for more practical application, Candid provides sample templates for documents you will eventually write as an industry professional. Candid Learning . Philanthropy News Digest .

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This redesign took a user-centric approach to better meet the needs of the site’s users and also utilized accessible, inclusive, and scalable design. million pages of documents in the Freedmen’s Bureau archive, the largest transcription project ever undertaken by the Smithsonian.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2019

Imagine if you were a large organization that got its website hacked with hundreds of pages and thousands of documents. Uploads protection: WordPress files that allow your nonprofit’s team to upload files to the Media Library get an extra level of security to keep hackers out. How many months would you lose trying to rebuild your site?

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2022

Tip number one: keep basic facts in an easy-to-access place. You could store all of your previous proposals in a proposal “library” on a shared drive. Transcript: Writing grant proposals is a time-intensive process, and it can often feel repetitive. I know, I’ve been there! A great place to start is your organization’s Candid profile.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

We use technology today to help hundreds of thousands of students with disabilities succeed in school, as well as help human rights activists around the world document abuses and seek justice. As one of our partners from an LGBT group in Uganda noted last year, “If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

However, she soon encountered the frustrating “accessible book famine” because very few books available were available in Braille. This reality changed when both Kevin and Sophia learned about the accessible online library Bookshare , an initiative of Silicon Valley technology nonprofit Benetech. Data is now a core resource.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

The goal of the DIAGRAM R&D Center is to greatly improve access to graphical information for students with print disabilities (for example, helping blind students get access to important graphics inside textbooks). We are also building a content model for making images more accessible.

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Candid

MAY 18, 2022

In 2015, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History launched the Philanthropy Initiative to collect, document, research, and create exhibitions and online content relating to the history of American giving. Can you give a little bit of background on the exhibition Giving in America ? . Why is it important to this history? .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Increased transparency is a serious matter for many nonprofits, and how funds are obtained and used should be carefully documented. Andrew Carnegie is one of America’s most famous philanthropists, noted for the large scale of his charitable contributions, which included building more than 2,500 libraries worldwide.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

It’s accessible for users at all different levels and doesn’t require advanced technical knowledge to use. This CMS also offers a vast library of ready-made themes to choose from, with over 11,000 themes available. Drupal offers a smaller theme library than WordPress, but it still has plenty of ready-made themes to work from.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Carefully consider fee structures to find the right balance between access to features and a high net donation amount. Although it may seem like this is an easier way to manage data, it comes at the cost of the following drawbacks: Security: What happens if your computer is stolen and someone gains access to all of that donor data?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

With Evernote , you can take notes on your Windows 8 desktop and then access them on your smartphone. The Box cloud storage app comes with 5GB of free storage to help you backup and manage your photos, documents, videos, and other files. You can access, view, edit, and share your stored files right from the Start screen.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At Candid, we partner with libraries and nonprofit resource centers across the country to provide nonprofit organizations and local communities with free access to Candid’s educational resources, trainings, and products. Candid community partners are strengthening the local nonprofit sector and helping their communities.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

are well versed in new ideas for audience engagement and committed to opening up their institutions to increase public access. Some collections stewards, steeped as they are in professional artifact-protection standards, are reluctant to shift toward the more open version of institutional access that engagement advocates promote.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 23, 2024

Having access to high-quality data to inform your decisions and strategies will help you effectively manage your organization, increase donor engagement, and retain more donors. This will guarantee that your team will have access to the necessary resources and guidance to effectively utilize your Blackbaud tools.

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Volunteer Hub

JULY 26, 2021

With the expansion came a new welcome center, four permanent galleries, two changing exhibition galleries, a research library and café, a 187-seat state-of-the-art performance theater, and a 175-seat outdoor amphitheater.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets. Cloud storage: For file sharing and storage, you can start with Drive through Google Workspace, so all documents can be stored in a convenient, accessible place.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. Human Rights Our Human Rights Program continues to focus on helping activists and journalists securely document the stories of human rights abuses worldwide.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

HRP’s statistical analysis of evidence from the Guatemalan National Police Archives, which contains some 80 million documents, has helped to establish forced disappearance as a crime in Guatemala. Our members are now downloading accessible books at a rate of more than one million books per year! This is a huge legal victory!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

In the old days, we used to talk about accessibility as something we added to our websites. Today, the conversation has shifted towards making our websites accessible as a key requirement of the development process - for complex reasons and with complex benefits. Topic: How can we build a culture of accessibility?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When you work at a nonprofit or public library, it might feel like you constantly need to learn new skills to stay on top of emerging technology and adoption. TechSoup's Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. Learn how to implement and conduct effective tech training for your nonprofit or library staff!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

To receive product donations from TechSoup, an organization must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit or a public library. We verify your tax-exempt status through the information you provide us, along with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Image: L.C.Nøttaasen. øttaasen.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2017

We'll kick this off with a completely original, new, and free fundraising service for charities, churches, and libraries. It is useful for any charities and libraries that are moving to Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, or OneDrive for Business for document management. Airbnb Social Impact Experiences. Mobile Beacon.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

TechSoup has partnered with goQ Software to make their writing assistance and speech recognition software, WordQ + SpeakQ , available to eligible nonprofits and libraries. WordQ predicts useful words and helps with spelling while you're creating documents and emails. roundup on building a culture of accessibility.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 1, 2021

Effective grant management software comes with a few key features: document library, calendar tools, and reporting capabilities. Many grant management software solutions offer multi-user access, enabling every member of your grant team to work simultaneously on an application. Run accessibility tests on your event webpages.

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

Since we launched our donation program in 2002, TechSoup has saved nonprofits and libraries in the United States and around the world over $3 billion dollars in IT expenses. This fiscal year ten new donor partners have joined with TechSoup to make their product donations available to nonprofits and libraries.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2017

Like any nonprofit, we like to take advantage of the product donations that are on offer for charities, churches, foundations, and libraries. We have come to rely on Box because we share documents across programs inside our organization and with our partner organizations around the world. Managing and Moving Documents.

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NTEN

MAY 30, 2013

These advanced options will require access to the premium edition, which isn’t free. HP ePrint service app - This is an excellent app for those who need to print documents or images directly off of their phone. You can upload your document and image and select the location nearest you that you would like to print them out at.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Basics of Meta Ad Library Meta has 3 versions of its Ad Library, each with its own caveats. Ad Library is a user interface that lets you search ALL the ads currently running and archived (up to 5 years) in the past across Meta. The Easy Steps Pull up ad library view. The caveat is that the data can’t be exported.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

By making sure all your work, important documents, and communications stay in one central place – easy to search, and easier to access. free Cloud online collaboration nonprofits libraries cloud computing' Who Is Podio for? What Does It Mean to Be Sponsored by Podio?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

I can't help wonder if this mounting bad PR played a role in Yahoo's announcement this week to release their Javascript user-interface library and a library of web application design patterns under an Open Source license. The design patterns all have accessibility sections - which is great to see. It's certainly big news.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Some of the biggest ways your nonprofit or library can make an. More accessible information. securely locked away in electronic files that only you can access. Share Documents with Anyone, Anywhere. ?Adobe’s about your office, and how much paper that works out to. Here at TechSoup, that would work out to almost 1.8

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2017

In the nonprofit and library world, it's not uncommon for staff — from management to service delivery team to volunteers — to be tasked with designing handouts, board presentations, or annual reports. The TechSoup Adobe donation program offers donated and discount Adobe products to eligible nonprofits and libraries.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Now hover over APIs & Services and then click on Library. To have access to real-time data for the current day. Click on GRANT ACCESS at the top. See the previous section of the document for how to add billing information. Click on the Big data category in the left side pane. Click on BigQuery API. Click on Billing.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Ultralingua's dictionary and thesaurus software lets you to look up words both from the Ultralingua application and from within documents and on web pages. With Ultralingua's translation software, you can make your organization and its resources more accessible to people with limited English or none at all. On public computers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

" Before it launched the Internet.org project, Facebook's efforts to widen Internet access include Facebook Zero , a feature phone friendly text-only version of its services. ” Bill Gates recently came out with his view that curing diseases is a much more worthwhile cause than providing Internet access. Convergence.

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