Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2022

18: Global Recycling Day — #GlobalRecyclingDay. 23: World Book Day — #WorldBookDay. 17: National Nonprofit Day — #NationalNonprofitDay (Internationally recognized). 26: National Dog Day — #DogDay (Internationally recognized). 16: Global Cat Day — #GlobalCatDay. 4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Zonta International, where Allison served as Executive Director* and Chief Staff Executive, was honored with the 2021 ASAE Summit Award for the UNFPA-UNICEFF Global Program to End Child Marriage. She’s also the author of two books, “Building Your Brand” and “Connect to Influence.” “The Summers, CAE, a guest on the Association 4.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2021

18: Global Recycling Day — #GlobalRecyclingDay. 23: World Book Day — #WorldBookDay. 17: National Nonprofit Day — #NationalNonprofitDay (Internationally recognized). 26: National Dog Day — #DogDay (Internationally recognized). 16: Global Cat Day — #GlobalCatDay. 4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The National Retail Federation expects online holiday sales in the United States to increase 14 percent to $163 billion in 2019. 7) First Book Marketplace :: fbmarketplace.org. Proceeds benefit First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs in low-income communities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

20: Global Recycling Day — #GRD2020. 23: World Book Day — #WorldBookDay. 17: National Nonprofit Day — #NationalNonprofitDay (Internationally recognized). 26: National D og Day — #DogDay (Internationally recognized). 16: Global Cat Day — #GlobalCatDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 27, 2014

National Wildlife Federation Store. National Public Radio Shop. National Park Foundation Store. National Geographic Store. Global Goods Partners. First Book Store. Peacekeeper Cause-Metics. ONE HOPE Wine and Gifts. MoMA Store. LACMA Store. Human Rights Campaign Store. Good Buy Shop. Dancing Deer Baking Co.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2013

The National Retail Federation is projecting that the average American holiday shopper will spend on $738 this holiday season generating more than $602 billion in total sales. First Book. Global Goods Partners. National Geographic. National Public Radio. National Wildlife Federation. DoGoodBuyUs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

The Goal The goal is pretty clear: insuring that every person on the planet with a serious print disability has access to the books and other printed material that they need to get an education, make a living and be included in society. The draft can be downloaded from WIPO. Strong hints that import/export is already permitted by U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

As a long-time advocate for a global copyright exception and the founder of Benetech—which I started twenty-five years ago in order to make technology tools to address the needs of people with print disabilities—I was thrilled to become an active player in global diplomacy and witness the adoption and signing of this landmark Treaty.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The National Retail Federation expects online holiday sales in the United States to increase 14 percent to $163 billion in 2019. 7) First Book Marketplace :: fbmarketplace.org. Proceeds benefit First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs in low-income communities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

23: World Book Day — #WorldBookDay. 17: National Nonprofit Day — #NationalNonprofitDay (Internationally recognized). 16: Global Cat Day — #GlobalCatDay. 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 2: World Autism Awareness Day — #WorldAustismDay. 7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Gifts range from symbolic adopt-an-acre of a national park gifts to funding a classroom project in a low-income community. They also make excellent gifts for activists and advocates of global development, environmental conservation, and wildlife protection. .

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

AI has garnered a lot of global and national attention across most industries in recent months. To learn more about how you can start to use AI, schedule a quick call with one of our experts or book a demo of Acumen. You can also learn more by watching our on-demand webinar on this same topic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

23: World Book Day — #WorldBookDay. 17: National Nonprofit Day — #NationalNonprofitDay (Internationally recognized). 16: Global Cat Day — #GlobalCatDay. 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report. 2: World Autism Awareness Day — #WorldAustismDay. 7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2010

Yesterday, an advanced copy of our book, The Networked Nonprofit , arrived. My son, Harry, who is in video making summer camp, decided to make a little movie of me opening the book! Here are a few upcoming book launch events over the next two weeks: June 17, 2010. Virtual Book Launch. San Francisco Book Party.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

You see, several months later, the federal Department of Education challenged us to compete against a well-respected national nonprofit 60 times our size in a bid to provide accessible educational materials for US students who are blind, dyslexic, or otherwise print disabled. I was wrong. million contract to do just that.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

Guest Blog from Amy McNeely, Bookshare Librarian This past week, April 12th through April 18th, was National Library Week. I have held the Manzanar High School Year Book. We have people proofreading books from their homes who might never get to interact with one another were it not for Bookshare. Bookshare is a unique library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

People with disabilities like blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, physical limitations and returning vets with brain injuries -- anyone who cannot simply pick up a printed book and read it. In addition, the quality was often not good enough to deliver fully equal access to educational books. We thought the publishers might help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The National Retail Federation estimates that U.S. First Book Marketplace. Global Goods Partners. National Park Foundation Gift Shop. households will spend an average of $935.58 this holiday season. That translates into billions of dollars in consumer spending that can empower philanthropy and social good. The Good Buy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Our collection has grown from 70,000 books to almost 110,000 books in the U.S. This rapid increase in our collection size has been due to extensive support from publishers: the majority of new books added to Bookshare last year and this year have been voluntarily provided to us by 130 publisher partners in the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human , has been serializing chapters from his book on Medium. Unesco has a paper and a call to action for international and national policies and regulatory frameworks to ensure that artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies benefit humanity as a whole. The Key to Successful A.I.?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms. In Authors Guild v. copyright law). The Authors Guild then appealed the ruling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

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

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. I’ve been to national meetings in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2010

Thanks to incredible work on the part of socially responsible publishers, our volunteers and the Bookshare team, we've been adding books at at incredible rate: more than 10,000 books in the last month. Bookshare is piling on books faster than I can read the titles. Ever since I was a kid, I was a title glutton.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. • Compare that to Google Book Search, with more than 25,000 publishers signed up for their commercial program in a similar time period. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2011

I’ll be at SXSWi Festival next week to moderate a panel and discussion on Free Agents and Nonprofits in a Networked World on Sunday, March 13 at 3:30 pm. Our panelists include Danielle Brigida, National Wildlife Federation, Mark Horvath, Invisible People, and Jessica Dheere, SMEX Beirut. Here’s what will happen: 1.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Global Giving Gift Cards. National Wildlife Federation Gifts. Based on more than 20 years of experience and 25,000+ hours spent utilizing mobile and social media, Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits is a comprehensive 256-page book packed with more than 500 best practices. Audubon Society Gift Catalog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

The global pandemic has awakened people of all ages to just how fragile and finite life can be. So many people I’ve talked to have no idea where they are going or want to go once they hit their mid-forties,” shares Michael Clinton , author of the book, ROAR into the Second Half of Your Life - Before It’s Too Late. “So

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APRIL 29, 2021

Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. National University. Leads the innovative efforts at National University for military, veteran, and military family educational degree programs . Oxfam America.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Although it might seem like a complicated document , we’re really excited about it because we think it will greatly improve global access for people with bona fide print disabilities. The goal of the Treaty is to end the book famine for people who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled. It does that in two main ways.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

Global Giving 2005. National Audubon Society 2015. National Audubon Society 2005. United Nations 2015. United Nations 2005. All that said, below are ten nonprofits embracing responsive web design in 2015 ( view 2014 list ) compared with their 2005 website designs. GlobalGiving 2015. globalgiving.org. audubon.org.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 21, 2021

If you want to build the psychological body armor to achieve personal resilience, then the book, Stronger , is a must-read for you. One of my favorite parts of the book is the section about achieving success. The book's three authors are: George Everly Jr., who has consulted with FEMA, ATF, and the FBI National Academy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

Benetech and Bookshare will continue working with coalition partners, like the National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind, to determine the best path forward to ratification here in the United States. We have a treaty…and it’s great! Thank you to everybody who helped to make the treaty possible!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

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! The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries.

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