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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I’d like to share our experience with Lavelle, where they took a series of calculated risks in grantmaking. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. At Benetech, we’re fortunate to have had long-time support from funders who have been willing to bet on us.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. And that’s how Bookshare was founded.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. I decided to follow through and attend.

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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. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

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Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. Someday we want to collect audio and video, too, but we’d need a pretty serious operating budget to do that and at least one full-time employee. Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

One of those organizations is the German American Heritage Center (GAHC), a nonprofit dedicated to preserving German heritage and sharing knowledge about the German immigrant experience. Qgiv Platform overview: Qgiv ’s fundraising platform was designed with the donor experience in mind. This keeps all conversations focused.

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Say Goodbye to Tedious Spreadsheet Work with ReadyTalk for Salesforce

Tech Soup

ReadyTalk's web and audio conferencing service is available for donation to eligible nonprofits and libraries through TechSoup. Before joining ReadyTalk, she gained first-hand experience with the challenges of running a webinar program while serving as director of marketing at an IT analyst firm.

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