Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

The DIAGRAM Center team has also created an image data content model which will provide standards to define and enhance the efficacy and interoperability of accessible images as the project evolves. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

Our marketing team could fit in a MINI Cooper. And then everything changed. ” Its response neatly explained the nitty-gritty: “ ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI. Google’s Bard is a generative language model from Google AI, trained on a massive dataset of text and code.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

The Benetech team is delighted by its adoption today. We have the technology, we have the content, and now we have the legal framework to make it possible for every person with a print disability on the planet to get access to the books they need for education, employment and social inclusion!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The recent hype is driven in part by how accessible AI has become: You no longer need to be a data scientist to use AI. Whether you decide to “hand over the keys” to an AI system or use it as an assistant to support the work you do, you have to trust the model. There’s a lot to consider when building responsible AI.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2023

With an entirely new set of data from their latest census results, USDA’s Farm to School Census teamed with Forum One to build their new website directly on Drupal 9. In 2019, USDA conducted the third Farm to School Census to measure progress towards reaching the goal of improving access to local foods in schools.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 1, 2021

Yet, for many people in America, food insecurity, or the lack of consistent access to adequate food for a healthy life, is a significant challenge and makes it more difficult for many to meet the nutritional needs of their household. “As Over $500 billion a year is spent in the U.S. The program is simple.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The disparities highlighted by the COVID-19 health crisis in health access, education equity, underinvested neighborhoods, and lack of or underemployment, all play a role in the disproportionate impact the crisis will continue to have on Latino and underserved communities nationwide. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. Why social enterprise?

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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 had just won the national contract to supply ALL disabled students in the United States, with ALL the books they needed to read to succeed in school, for free. Not 70,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human , has been serializing chapters from his book on Medium. Unesco has a paper and a call to action for international and national policies and regulatory frameworks to ensure that artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies benefit humanity as a whole. The Key to Successful A.I.?

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

If you want to get a full lie of the land, scroll down to access our full database of conferences. Who attends : Professional fundraisers, nonprofit communications teams, and tons of vendors. Who attends : Professional fundraisers, nonprofit communications teams, and tons of vendors. Top Nonprofit conferences for 2023.

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Forum One

JULY 22, 2021

With an entirely new set of data from their latest census results, USDA’s Farm to School Census teamed with Forum One to build their new website directly on Drupal 9. In 2019, USDA conducted the third Farm to School Census to measure progress towards reaching the goal of improving access to local foods in schools.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Benetech team has already accomplished great things for our users, but there is so much more we can do. Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Cause Camp, presented by Nonprofit Hub and Do More Good , has been nationally recognized by Forbes as a “must-attend” for the nonprofit sector. Over the last few years, she has served as a conduit for making these best practices accessible to organizations seeking to enhance their efficiency and workplace culture. Are you excited yet?

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sgEngage

JUNE 20, 2023

You have a patchwork of national, state or provincial, and international standards to follow. Your stakeholders’ expectations around privacy, accessibility, and more are rapidly evolving. Be prepared to give individuals access to a copy of their data if they ask for it. Legislation grows increasingly rigorous each year.

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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. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

However, technology is transforming innovation at its core and our team at Benetech does quite well in leveraging this “innovation at warp speed” for social good. We know, however, that we’ve only scratched the surface of meeting the global need for access to books and information. Don’t get me wrong: I love writing my updates.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Earlier today, I attended the American Foundation for the Blind’s (AFB) National Leadership Conference in Chicago where I received the 2013 Migel Medal. that made Bookshare possible, by putting the power to make accessible books into the hands of blind people in far more countries of the world. We hope you’ll join us on this journey.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The US Department of Education recognized that Parent Centers could increase their impact through technology and allotted funding for 8 pilot centers that represent the cross section of abilities in the network to test a technology model. We knew that this technology project was worthy of a significant change in the way we work.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Your team may be grappling with questions like, “How do we transform words on the page into reality?” Your team may be thinking, “equity work is hard. Is there a process to ensure everyone has access and opportunity for their voice to be heard? and, “How can we prepare ourselves for the challenges that we will bump up against?”

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The benefits of Salesforce customization From a more engaging and personalized user experience for your member community to a more streamlined and profitable platform for your team, everyone stands to benefit from Salesforce customization. Drive member engagement.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

When the pandemic hit, BGCA quickly realized they needed to rethink their entire service delivery model in order to continue making an impact. They started by using technology to connect data across their 4,900 Club locations so that national leaders could gain a real-time view into members’ needs and preferences. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

The need to get practical, to find a business model that provides massive financial return to investors, means that many great ideas get put back on the shelf when the inventors realize that they aren’t a fit for the venture capital model. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 2, 2022

When the pandemic hit, Boys & Girls Clubs of America quickly realized they needed to rethink their entire service delivery model to continue making an impact. That started with using technology to connect data between some 4,900 locations so national leaders could gain a real-time view into the needs and preferences of their members.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

When a humanitarian crisis occurs, Candid mobilizes a team to collect information about the philanthropic response. The data from these various sources are harmonized, and each record is coded according to Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System, either by Candid staff, our machine learning model, or a combination of both. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

Benetech is committed to developing technology for underserved communities that can reap big benefits from improved access to information. The software also helps conservation teams prioritize environmental threats, develop objectives and actions, and select monitoring indicators to assess the effectiveness of their strategies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2022

Investing in a program evaluation department helped the leadership team develop a clear strategy with their first strategic plan. This process includes integrating services into packages, reducing barriers to access for clients, engaging in meaningful community partnerships, and implementing cost-effective administrative approaches.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 23, 2020

Amythyst Shipman, Food Lifeline’s Director of Operations, convened a cross-team workgroup for their response and identified seven key areas of concern and assigned a staff lead for each. Their current order system will be suspended to ensure all agencies have similar access.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 14, 2022

The pandemic and the shift online has helped them connect with people who share their values and find diverse role models. Whether it’s volunteering or giving, younger people want to do it with their peers — their “team” — so make it easy for them to engage with you and each other on the channels they prefer. About the Author.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

You can access this data from year to year, so you can better determine where adjustments should be made. Do the necessary market research to learn which foundations—local, regional and national—are funding nonprofits like yours. Team building: One-person development offices are often the norm at small-to-mid-sized nonprofits.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Build your pipeline of future donors with peer-to-peer fundraising Melaina Chromy of Qgiv teamed up with David Hawa of IRUSA in a session titled Build Bridges with Peer-to-Peer Fundraising: How to Connect Supporters with Your Mission for Long-Term Fundraising Success. Following this trend, Meta has introduced Meta Verified.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2017

Although that plant was considered a model employer for refugees at the time, Jane met employees who included a former engineer from Iraq and a surgeon from Bosnia. "In order to meet the demand, we needed to integrate regional offices and functions that had operated more independently into a cohesive national team.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2010

Education the way we've always done it isn't meeting the needs of our nation. At my nonprofit tech company Benetech, our team applies successful models from Silicon Valley to better solve really important social problems. The social sector is having to evolve in this changing world.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

Tech solutions combined with forward-thinking, inspired, and innovative community leaders like Gita Rampersad, vice president of healthcare partnerships and nutrition at Feeding America, and Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, superintendent of Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), offer a model for how to tackle complex issues.

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Qgiv

MARCH 9, 2022

That leads to a lighter load on the system, which reduces healthcare costs for everyone accessing healthcare locally. Healthcare is just one example of how improving access to housing can uplift an entire community. But if you need inspiration, National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week is November 12-20, 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Last year we worked with a team from IO Sustainability to look at what the literature had to say about linking organizational strengthening to mission impact. Why do we do what we do if not to make people’s lives better, their communities safer or increase access to quality education? Who is defining results anyway?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Efforts to appropriate money in state and national legislatures were defeated. It’s taken on more techie monikers like crowdfunding or micro-funding as advances in social media and tools like PayPal have made collecting small donations from a wider base of supporters more accessible than ever. Except for Joseph Pulitzer. Jesse Noyes.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2019

Because we are implementing a national expansion strategy to open new clinics in underserved areas, we also have a growth fund, which covers the start-up costs of new clinics that we open. When I first approached a national foundation about the idea of a PRI and brought that to our board, they were very excited about it.

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