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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! We also received our largest-ever award for human rights, a two-year, $2.2

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Beyond Survival: Post-Disruption Nonprofit Digital Strategy

Bloomerang

A/B testing can help determine which language resonates and which does not. . What do you need to do a more effective job of eliminating obstacles to engagement? . Her award-winning blog showcases her practical approach, which earned her the AFP “Outstanding Fundraising Professional of the Year” award.

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America's Giving Challenge Days: Bloggers Campaign!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The America's Giving Challenge will award $50,000 to the project that gets the most unique donors. Our project on Global Giving focuses on literacy which is key to education and jobs for poor children. The literacy school runs three sessions a day for 130 children of Roteang village???s It's a route out of poverty.

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How to Write Effective Web Copy (Part 1): Make It Readable

Connection Cafe

American Literacy is Iffy. There’s a great story about Nora Ephron that illustrates how powerful addressing your audience is: Before she became an award-winning screenwriter, Nora Ephron was a senior at Beverly Hills High School. We couldn’t have a language without them. The average American adult reads at an 8th-grade level.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

She was also awarded their annual Ida B. I learned to speak the language fluently, and was there at a really intense time in terms of the civil war, and a lot of the political uprisings that were going on. I came back to the States after working in Nepal, and I took a job as a feature writer in San Francisco.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We work all over the world, and our Martus software has been translated into Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Khmer and other languages. Most tech companies think this is the most counter-productive job and innovation killing bill they’ve seen in years. Wonderful stuff.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

As a feminist, and as a feminine feminist, I truly believe that we don't do a very good job in the United States of believing that you can lead by serving, and I think the United States needs to think deeply about being in service of the rest of the world." "I think there are many different ways in which you define leadership.

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