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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

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For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. They’re just overall happier children, and their success at school sets them up for success later in life! What is happening in your hero’s life?

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Can You Use Your Own Photos on Your Website? Maybe Not

Tech Soup

They also help demonstrate the human impact of nonprofits' and libraries' work. This means that the rules for consent apply not only to photos, but also to videos and audio recordings. The following rules of thumb are abstracted from Bryan Carson's Laws for Using Photos You Take at Your Library. You can indeed.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. And today, braille is not being taught to most blind children.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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Building a Better World

Tech Soup

BetterWorld Telecom - a provider of audio conferencing, VoIP services, and donated phones for. nonprofits and public libraries through TechSoup - is a company founded with a vision of. future, such as children, our environment, education, and fair trade. future, such as children, our environment, education, and fair trade.

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TechSoup Global Donor Partner Profile: BetterWorld Telecom

Tech Soup

They supply charities, libraries and foundations with discounted Cisco and Polycom office phones. They also offer a discounted audio conferencing. TechSoup's Chief Business Development Officer, Gayle Carpentier, had been searching for a way to offer phone systems for nonprofits and libraries for a long time.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In particular, electronic books (or e-books) offer the possibility of dramatically improving access for students with disabilities – and for disadvantaged children everywhere. The Bookshare library is made possible by a copyright exception: Section 121 of the United States Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment.

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