Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

of America v. The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. This ruling by the Supreme Court in Sony Corp. copyright law.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Subscribers will also be given access to free digital literacy training. The National Broadband Plan and BTOP. The FCC created a National Broadband Plan in 2009 based on a Congressional mandate. Anyone interested in finding out more on this program can call 1-855-8-INTERNET. A number of U.S.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

A national nonprofit, Year UP aims to close the opportunity gap and empower urban talent to reach their potential. Year Up is just one of the five nonprofit organizations Microsoft has partnered with along with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, City Year, Junior Achievement USA (JA), and Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

There is a surprising number of nonprofit computer refurbishers in North America that now supply accessible technology equipped computers, and lately iPads and iPods to disabled people at no or low cost. The marriage of refurbishment and accessible technology started in the early 1980s with the founding of the National Cristina Foundation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

It's been almost three years since Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance of American's online and phone communications and records. TechSoup has resources on evaluating cloud security and advice for selecting software that helps you comply with HIPAA.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

It's been almost three years since Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance of American's online and phone communications and records. TechSoup has resources on evaluating cloud security and advice for selecting software that helps you comply with HIPAA.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” More often than not, people who are described as “illiterate” likely have a low level of literacy. This is because literacy is not a binary descriptor, as it is often made to seem. Illiterate. For a while, the preferred term was Hispanic.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. She also won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Reporting for her article, " Dying in Darfur ," in The New Yorker.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. http ://www.noula.ht/index.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

We’re the Safe America Foundation. In 2010, SAF’s “Drill Down for Safety” project mobilized nearly 800,000 people with national texting drills! We are Rape Crisis and Victim Services, Employment (80% placement rate for women and men), Adult Literacy, general counseling for women and families, legal clinic…and on and on.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

KR: The Global Fund for Women has an extraordinary commitment to keeping our doors open so that as many organizations working to advance women's human rights internationally can really gain access to resources that they so desperately need. Those are some of the ways in which we try to make those decisions.

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