Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Our breakthrough in the conception of Martus came in 2000, when I was looking to expand Benetech to new frontiers of social good beyond our origins—helping disabled people access books in what is now our Global Literacy program. He went on to become Benetech’s Vice President of Human Rights and led our human rights work for nine years.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

If your organization works with sensitive data, Box also provides the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to support your organization's compliance with HIPAA. How Does It Work? Operation Hope : This financial literacy nonprofit uses Box as its primary content management system for all employees.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

But did you know that our work is global? That’s why we invited NetSquared organizers and ambassadors to participate in the TechSoup Africa and TechSoup Europe Summits. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and the Middle East. Africa and the Middle East. Asia and the Pacific Rim. Europe and the UK.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As a company, they works to have a positive impact on the local communities around the world where it has offices. Many of us have worked at companies that offer a small form of gift matching, but Symantec's efforts to promote volunteerism push that to an even higher tier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. ” He started off with a great story about what a tribe in South Africa does when someone in their community does something bad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Do you have a special techie in your life who works for a nonprofit? The money helps women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa. Your donation will help the organization reach more children in poor, rural communities in the United States through early childhood education, literacy, physical activity and nutrition programs.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In some of the places where we work, women are very often not in professional roles whatsoever, much less the media. BB: What is the path that brought you to this work personally? I came back to the States after working in Nepal, and I took a job as a feature writer in San Francisco. We are pushing an envelope there.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

To this day, it is still considered one of the finest works in the history of Japanese literature. Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga (under her literary pseudonym Gabriela Mistral) was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature for her poetic work, Sonnets of Death. Gabriela Mistral. Do you love ladies in literature?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Now, we have a nice little letter thanking them, explaining that we only help people with bona fide disabilities, that it’s legal, that we’ve worked with the big publishing associations and with authors groups, and wouldn’t they like to help us in the future by adding more of their books voluntarily to our collection. Wonderful stuff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa), talked about the opportunities in market failure. She also explained that the illiterate poor women she serves are more committed to literacy for their children than for themselves. I just want to share some of the voices I've heard so far this week.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

An example of this emerging philanthropic approach to redistribute wealth and democratize power can be seen in CRUS’ partnership with We-Care Foundation, a Liberian nonprofit organization, and support of its First Literacy Initiative (FLI) a holistic, home-based program that empowers parents and caregivers as their children’s first teachers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

This week check out the launch of the new Global Open Data Initiative, the pursuit for the release and use of open data in Latin America and thoughts on open data and democracy in Africa. It will also give people the tools to help them work with and understand the power of data and aid data reuse.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

They talked about the economic value of housework, and the importance of education and literacy in gaining economic independence." T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. She received the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award in 2007.

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