Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In addition, the quality was often not good enough to deliver fully equal access to educational books. And Robin is why we've been able to deliver over 10 million accessible books to readers with disabilities. For the last three years she's been leading the charge for the Born Accessible campaign. That's where Robin came in.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

These will support your business case by aligning with your goals: Consistent, trusted data with standard interactive reports using a common language that employees throughout your organization easily understand – all in a secure data warehouse. Communicate to leadership and staff in their language.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By breaking down each goal into consumable sections, we hope you will be able to maximize the impact of the SDGs, harness a shared language in seeking funding, and bring about greater change. It serves as a guide to navigating the information, how your mission aligns, and the attainment of each goal.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We’ll delve into both the risks of AI and the potential rewards that could come from leveraging these newly accessible technologies to build a better world through equitable innovations. But a series of breakthroughs—including several over just the last decade—have catapulted AI to the forefront of our public consciousness.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The first time I really "got" the power of accessible technology (AT) to improve the lives of people with disabilities was when I saw the PBS documentary Freedom Machines. How Accessible Technology Computer Refurbishment Came About. How Accessible Technology Works. Accessible Technology Coalition.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. When building through the API For more advanced users, there are ways to better tune models with more variables beyond language. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response.

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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. million grant from the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. Our members are now downloading accessible books at a rate of more than one million books per year! and James L. with the books they need for educational success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too. Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 12, 2006

We discussed literacy and access for the blind, and I learned about one of Mr. Kohli's passions, which is adult literacy. The program focuses on mainly teaching a core vocabulary of sight words in the the desired language, so that adults are able read the local newspaper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

These tools can help organizations that work with individuals who have general writing concerns, English language learners, people with learning disabilities or physical handicaps in typing, people with dyslexia or recovering from strokes, and even those learning literacy and spelling. roundup on building a culture of accessibility.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Do your donation pages require multiple clicks to access? . A/B testing can help determine which language resonates and which does not. . Reports produced from larger outfits like M+R and NextAfter , who have access to research from hundreds and thousands of nonprofits, can also help inform your nonprofit digital strategy. .

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

As with all Asks, center your language around the things you’ll be able to do with the donor’s money – like the lives they’ll be able to change. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. Very good question. Monthly donors make this work possible!

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

VietNet-ICT’s vision is to narrow the digital divide by providing ICT access to poor people in Vietnam. All people deserve equal access to opportunities. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. English is increasingly favored as a second language.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

ARC already has a training lab there that provides lifelong learning opportunities for older adults, many of whom speak languages other than English. The new MultiPoint Server system will mainly be used for open public access, primarily Internet use. It will also be used for digital literacy classes, and perhaps for ESL classes.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

Chances are, even if you have, that’s not your actual title (although we recognize some job descriptions do use this language). When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” More often than not, people who are described as “illiterate” likely have a low level of literacy. Illiterate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Although the members of our board were impressed with all three nominees, they awarded Carrie Karnos of Palo Alto, CA, the 2006 Veale Award for her work with an accessible online library called Bookshare. She wrote, "Carrie Karnos is a Bookshare.org volunteer who has given blind readers access to more than 2,000 books.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Online courses from easyLearning by Serebra provide busy nonprofiters with access to more than 1,500 technical and professional courses. Access donated live instructional QuickBooks seminars with QuickBooks Made Easy, now available in TechSoup Limited. Enroll in Online Courses from easyLearning.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce. We're not talking about the race to expand Internet access in space here. government initiative that aims to bring accessible broadband access to residents of low-income housing throughout the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

How do increase internet literacy with communities? Where do they access the content? What type of language should i use? If there is what should it be? What technologies do you need to encourage user-generated content on video? What are the best examples of social networking use? How to keep this conversation going?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The blog’s vibrant design and vivid language warmly invite readers into Rani’s narrative. WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. This uplifting post included one hashtag, #EverySinglePerson, highlighting PIH’s belief that every single person deserves health care access.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. There is also a really practical level of source access. Our primary goal is to provide that empowering employment. I said, "You write it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I especially appreciate Big Brother Mouse because of their shared focus on access to literacy. It turns out to help adults as well as kids, since many adults hadn’t seen books in their native Lao language before.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training. Health Screenings and Clinics Health screenings and clinics are vital educational events that provide access to essential health services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. If any single publisher or author of any one of the more than 130,000 accessible books in our library gets antsy, they can send a notice to VISA and MasterCard and say, stop money from going to Benetech and Bookshare. Wonderful stuff.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. So, if I provide 10 English as a second language or 10 computer literacy programs a year for 10 people, let’s just say that’s 100 pieces of content, that’s service.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

I was at that time working at a wonderful organization called Streetside Stories , which is a literacy arts organization with programming in various Title 1 middle schools in San Francisco. It’s actually in three different languages, Chinese, Spanish and English. It’s written for conscious organizers, by conscious organizers.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

As a librarian, I am philosophically (some might even say rabidly) in support of free and open access to information. As it says on the city's open data website: "Open data increases transparency, access to public information, and improves coordination and efficiencies among agencies and partner organizations.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2023

Accessibility : You want to deliver data and insights to the different people across your organization who can use it to make decisions – making the data accessible in the places and formats that fit their needs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

KR: The Global Fund for Women has an extraordinary commitment to keeping our doors open so that as many organizations working to advance women's human rights internationally can really gain access to resources that they so desperately need. Those are some of the ways in which we try to make those decisions.

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