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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Even in the United States, this was true of probably a quarter of our student users.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The digital content is presented as text, but the built-in read-aloud capability is disabled because of ambiguity over audio rights. So, the student might be able to read only 60% of the relevant content, and have no idea about what the equations say.

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Advancing Reading Equality with Bookshare’s Exponential Growth

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Thousands of ebooks are pouring into the collection each month thanks to the dedication of our volunteers around the world and partnerships with more than 500 socially responsible publishers who donate their digital files. These milestones represent a giant leap forward in the number of students and individuals we serve.

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Telling your Nonprofit's Story through Video

VisionLink

Consider an audio slideshow Can even use an iPhone camera Ask corporate partners to donate/lend equipment Reach out and ask for free/cheap help from experts and students. When is the due date and how long will it take to create? You don''t need to break your bank account Can film the video in-house No camera?

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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10 Volunteer Training Ideas for Onboarding All Types of Volunteers

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or “I love filing so much! Even if shoveling soil or filing reports is their volunteer role, chances are they’re with you because they believe in the higher purpose of your nonprofit: the mission. Now, we’re getting closer to why your volunteers are here at all. Focus on your mission. That’s why I volunteer.” and those you serve.

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A Chat With The Interns

Connection Cafe

Both of them are students from the University of Texas. Connection Cafe Podcast 10 Download audio file. Ashley Doub and Christopher Hitte are both working with the Luminate CRM team this summer to help improve some of the solutions that we deliver to clients while getting hands on experience in a professional environment.