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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . International Game Technology. They award grants for educational innovations that prepare youth to become the socially responsible leaders of the future. Costco Wholesale.

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Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My latest post on HuffPo is now up: Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet , about my proposal to the WEF's Global Redesign Initiative. What would you propose to global leaders to make humanity better off? That's not an endorsement of my proposal by the WEF, but I am certainly looking forward to going next week!

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Working Toward Internet Access for Everyone

Tech Soup

The big recent digital inclusion news is the Federal Communication Commission's ( FCC ) proposal to extend the Lifeline Program , which has supplied discounted phone service to low-income people since 1985. If this proposal is enacted, it will, at a stroke, do more to close the U.S. Expansion of the FCC's Lifeline Service.

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Fast Ways to Find Funding Sources

Get Fully Funded

It will take you to a page with a link for each type of grant the government awards. Step 3: If you are just learning to search for grant opportunities, I suggest that you click on “browse by category.” This is the option I like to use. Step 4: Click on the category of the grant opportunity you are searching for.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. We're sure we can do this because our technology allows us to cost-effectively and rapidly scale Bookshare.org. I'm especially excited about our efforts to reach students who haven't traditionally had access to assistive technology.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech.

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