Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

I am lucky to be able to contribute this passion to Benetech by providing outreach and membership support in Spanish to the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Why shouldn’t visually impaired and disabled students in the United States have easy access to the study of the languages? This photo was taken in a library in San Juan.

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VisionLink

MARCH 4, 2019

High-level government officials have directed these generous people to National VOAD and their member agencies. We are honored that Visionlink, as a corporate partner, has been able to open access to the unaffiliated volunteer system to National VOAD and Volunteer Florida member organizations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Our latest Impact Lab cohort on climate justice built an open-source tool for climate community-based organizations to access grant funding more seamlessly with the Grants Content Kit. The cohort of Community Fellows posed provocations like: How might we leverage each other’s innovations to make accessing food more streamlined?

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

VisionLink''s Role VisionLink customers are among those providing 2-1-1 services, from New York to Washington state, from Florida to Maine, and here in our own state of Colorado--and for many regional and metropolitan systems in between. 2-1-1 is an easy to remember phone number that connects individuals with resources in their community.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2021

HandsOn Connect has an intuitive, user-friendly interface that provides volunteers access to search, filter, register and sign up for volunteer opportunities. For this week’s National Volunteer Week, we’re launching the next phase of our partnership with Salesforce.org. In 2015, HandsOn Connect became available on the AppExchange. .

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2023

…Meanwhile, we have a maternity care desert report we’ve been doing since 2018, and that’s highlighting areas of inequitable access to maternity care providers and birthing facilities. In 2022, we did all counties across the US showing the access to care and the continuing decline. We work nationally and in our markets.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

I’m thinking of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which is trying to be a museum for people, but is also a national and collection-based place. In Puerto Rico and Chile, there are museums made out of posters so that kids in parks can come and visit real art—well, it’s not real art, but you’re getting access to Picasso for $5.

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