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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing.

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Accessibility Goals: Moving Past Compliance

Forum One

It can be uncomfortable to admit, but many web designers, myself included, first learned about digital accessibility as a regulation. How do we budget for required accessibility ? Perhaps the dramatic changes to work and home life brought on by the pandemic sparked a greater understanding of accessibility. We can’t connect.

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Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action

sgEngage

The existential need for philanthropy indicates that structures exist that fail to meet basic human needs. Even though laws and structures are often driven from the top down, it is a combination of top-down leadership and grassroots movements that create sustainable change.

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Celebrating National Disability Independence Day

VisionLink

In honor of National Disability Independence Day, Visionlink commemorates the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and celebrates the structural changes across the US since July 1990 and the assistive digital technologies that we've embraced. Together we celebrate truly inclusive solutions. Your Visionlink Team

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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

Candid

So when I learned about Candid’s Demographics via Candid —an initiative that allows nonprofit organizations to share demographic information on their Candid nonprofit profile , where funders, donors, and researchers could easily access it—I was both intrigued and skeptical.

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

sgEngage

Ensure your team has a standard procedure for identifying any requests and activities within your system that are still assigned to departing team members. Record that institutional knowledge in an accessible Policies and Procedures manual. When a new person comes on, it’s a good time to understand exactly what access they need.

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5 Tips for Community Health Centers to Transition to New Fund Accounting Software

sgEngage

You need data collection and data structure skills, not just a data entry person—someone who knows how your organization operates and the best ways for information to be delivered. They’ll work together to ensure the system is configured to automate board reporting and UDS data so that you have more free time for other priorities.

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