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Award Winning Combinations for Social Change

Care2

The recent award winners of the 2012 Grinnell Prize are a great example. Embrace’s hybrid organizational structure also combines a for-profit organization and nonprofit organization in what Chen and Liang hope is a sustainable model for Embrace’s future social impact. "We

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The ability to search effectively for information online and to be able to discern the quality and veracity of the information one finds and then communicate these findings well (referred to as digital literacy). Synthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources). Being strategically future-minded.

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Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

What about literacy and education? Governments creating tax policies and organizational structures to encourage capital for and the formation of social enterprises. Series of TV or print articles on these social applications, or an award for the tech transfer office that made the best socially responsible licensing deal.

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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. Use Structure on Your Web Pages. Smart page structure is the quickest way to deliver that ease.

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The Story in the Numbers

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Those who envision what could be possible by having Benetech apply innovative technology to the areas of Literacy, Human Rights, and the Environment, and who enable us to explore new opportunities for creating social good. Over 80% of our revenues are structured as “pay-as-you-go” contracts, rather than grants.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Do you love ladies in literature? Sheroes in the Sciences. Gertrude B. Rosalind Franklin.

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