sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Prioritize accessibility. Make your donation and volunteer opportunities easy to find. Often, these visitors are in a rush or feeling stressed, so it’s your job to ensure that your website is easily accessible. Should you use buttons and links on your homepage to direct visitors to your internal directory or research library?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

As smartphones and tablets grow in popularity, mobile optimization is something libraries and nonprofits should pay close attention to in the coming year. Why should mobile be part of libraries and nonprofits' game plan? Multiple studies have found that more people are accessing the web from a mobile device. Why Mobile?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. We named this library Bookshare because it was created with an army of crowdsourcing volunteers, many of them blind people themselves, who scan the books using optical character recognition.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

One donor made a special offer to our top volunteers, those who have provided at least 150 books to Bookshare: that they could request any one book and we'd (not they!) Our Volunteer Coordinator, Pavi Mehta, sent me this email last week and I thought it was definitely blog-worthy! I am so happy to be able to volunteer for bookshare.

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NTEN

APRIL 29, 2021

Despite needing to access online services, almost a quarter of U.S. Ellie Avis, a fellow in Josephine County, OR, launched a hotspot lending program that allows library patrons to bring their connectivity home. adults do not use home broadband.

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Bonterra

MARCH 13, 2024

Receive access to a library of best practices developed from Bonterra’s experience serving 20,000+ social good organizations. Flexible project management and data service capacity Tap into the capacity and expertise you need to execute challenging projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Pottsboro Area Library in Texas. We of course got lots of great stories, and our winner is the Pottsboro Area Library. When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Benetech’s Bookshare library is living proof that real, transformative change happens through partnerships and by helping people unleash their talents and energies. We blew up the old approaches to converting inaccessible books into accessible equivalents. With support from the Bookshare community, we changed that reality.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

Back in September, we posted a summary of App It Up's nonprofit and library apps survey. represent the full range of nonprofit and library app experiences. represent the full range of nonprofit and library app experiences. Nonprofits and libraries are interested in building their own apps, though they. A majority of.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The day is typically celebrated with a variety of events and activities, including award ceremonies, fundraising galas, volunteer recognition , and educational programs. These events aim to honor philanthropists, volunteers, professional fundraisers, and organizations that have made a positive impact on their communities. In the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

At TechSoup, we support the efforts of nonprofits and public libraries working to build digitally inclusive and literate communities through donated technology from our corporate partners. Dell has teamed up with the Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI), an organization focused on making technology accessible to underserved communities.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

Prioritize accessibility. Make your donation and/or volunteer opportunities easy to find. Often, these visitors are in a rush or feeling stressed, so it’s your job to ensure that your website is easily accessible. Should you use buttons and links on your homepage to direct visitors to your internal directory or research library?

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Websites Organization Tips Map 77

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. a11y accessibility Bookshare Braille DAISY ebooks Global Literacy print disabilities Reading'

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2015

This week is National Volunteer Week ! Inspired by National Volunteer Week, NTEN took a few hours of work time to volunteer in our local communities. Inspired by National Volunteer Week, NTEN took a few hours of work time to volunteer in our local communities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

“They get frustrated and don’t want to read,” she says, “but access to digital books and reading technologies changed all that for Zach.” Zach Bryant The change happened when Zach was in high school and his Assistive Technology teacher introduced him to Benetech’s Bookshare library. Thank you for your support!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

We have been helping blind and print disabled people gain access to books for over 17 years. Two recent experiences underscored different parts of this struggle to deliver access. It's great to see someone still using one of our products to access books for this length of time. They face barriers enough without adding more!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

Get mobile broadband access for your organization with a donated fourth-generation (4G) modem or wireless hotspot from the Mobile Beacon Donation Program. This USB modem is handy for someone who often travels with their laptop, and needs broadband access as they go. CLEAR Spot 4G Apollo. CLEAR Modem with WiFi.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

Our volunteers are essential to accomplishing Benetech's mission. From time to time, I like to highlight the contributions of particular volunteers. He pulled together volunteers from his community, involved the local public library in Chantilly, Virginia, and scanned and proofread 24 books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. My core point: Don’t put up bureaucratic barriers to access. The biggest challenge for access is that it’s expensive.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

A related, but slightly different and less recognized issue, is the fact that people with disabilities such as blindness often have limited access to printed materials, even if they are well-educated. One of the programs developed by Benetech is a digital library called Bookshare.org. www.bookshare.org.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Virtual conferences are more accessible, allowing more individuals to attend your conference. You will need to have a team of staff or volunteers available to direct traffic, answer questions, and help people navigate the event. Hosting virtual events inevitably leads to a library of valuable and useful content.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Bookshare and our other Access to Literacy initiatives, including the DIAGRAM Center and Route 66 Literacy, all made big strides this year through the significant dedication of the community that makes it all happen. How people access our books also got a whole lot more interesting in 2012. We’ve added over 1800 books since then.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Make data collection even simpler with our library of common assessments, intervention record templates, and pre-configured forms tailored to common compliance standards. Bonterra’s office sits behind a ForcePointTM firewall which extensively controls, tracks, and reports access to our internal infrastructure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Case in point: our accessible online library, Bookshare. Bookshare is the result of joint efforts of our partners in the education, technology, publishing, student, parent, and volunteer communities. accessibility Bookshare civil society data ethics human centered approach human rights IEEE Martus privacy'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2011

Benetech got a call recently from an excited Bookshare member who had been waiting to download our new Read2Go accessible e-book application for Apple devices. Maria was especially excited about Read2Go’s navigation features that allow her to search and download accessible e-books from our Bookshare library directly to her iPad and iPhone.

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Audio Boston Student Music 145

Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Mailing thank-you, birthday, or holiday cards, signed by your staff or volunteers. Learn what resources your local community foundation, nonprofit resource center, or library may offer to help you find and connect with new funders, including free access to Candid’s tools and resources. Find a Candid Community partner near you.)

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It also helps them feel orientated and ensures they know what benefits and services they can access with their membership. This can include what your association does and why, who currently works there, what volunteers are expected to do, and an overview of your policies and rules. These could be in-person or virtual events.

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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. They also can also seek out nonprofits to volunteer for or collaborate with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Photo from San Jose Library. This week (April 18th to 25th) is National Volunteer Week in the US. Chances are if you work or volunteer for a nonprofit you already know that. Maybe you even have a favorite volunteer and you're planning a special recognition of their efforts this week. For the Smithsonian ? Start here.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Access to Exclusive Content One of the primary benefits of joining a membership-based organization is gaining access to exclusive content. This might mean educational resources, research reports, and industry insights that non-members cannot access. Think about the ways you can help your nonprofit’s members connect!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization. Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Forms will also probably come in handy in the beginning for volunteer sign-up, client enrollment in programs, and many other tasks. 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. Beware that Canva can be a real time suck.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. The road toward full access for braille readers has a number of other hurdles that must be overcome.

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sgEngage

JULY 15, 2023

Donor management allows organization leaders to be transparent with donors and volunteers within their network while simultaneously facilitating an environment for sustainable investment. Providing an accessible venue for feedback to adjust goals based on donor needs is the best way to cultivate a mutually amenable relationship.

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