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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To communicate his thoughts, he uses an alternative augmentative communication device. When our team last caught up with him, he was a busy student at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, rejoicing in his ability to read independently and reach his full potential. This wasn’t always the case, though.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A community group worked hard to get her placed on the historic register and raise money to restore her to her mid-century glory. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. When I was a kid, Lucy the Elephant , was in a state of disrepair.

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Overhead: Time to Pull Our Heads Out of the Sand?

Connection Cafe

On the other hand, Brian Mittendorf, a professor of accounting at Ohio State University’s Fisher School of Business, concluded from research that “there is limited evidence supporting the view that excessive scrutiny of accounting numbers is serving to undermine nonprofit growth” (2).

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