Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. Canadians with disabilities will now have access to Bookshare through their public libraries and the Canadian National Institute of the Blind.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

Windy brings over a decade of professional experience in film, video, event planning, theatre, and the non-profit sector to D.V.A. In Brazil, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

national experience. The Amazon Text-to-Speech issue This one has gotten a lot of press, especially since the National Federation of the Blind and the Reading Rights Coalition has formed to fight the soundproofing of books on the Kindle2. Of course, if there is an international treaty on the topic and the U.S. copyright law.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When I joined the Blackbaud Arts and Cultural Solutions team, I stumbled across social posts from the National Aquarium of New Zealand and have been following them ever since. Felicity: For over 2 years, keepers from the National Aquarium of New Zealand (located in Napier, Hawke’s Bay) have voted on the good and naughty penguin of the month.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

One of the most visible signs of that is the boom in the gourmet coffee business over the last 10-15 years with the whole cafe phenomenon, cafes springing up all over the country and people looking for a much higher quality cup of coffee, but also a higher quality experience. It sounds pretty cheap to you and me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

And Phil Zimbardo is going to speak about his book, The Lucifer Effect , which showed how he had an experiment where he put a few students of his from Stanford in prison and a few people, in the same class, in as prison guards, and then it showed how immediately they turned bad because of how power can corrupt people.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The experiment proved successful. The one BerkShare note honors the local Mohican nation; W.E.B. There are now over 200 local currencies in use worldwide, according to a database maintained by the Schumacher Center, with popularity greatest in Europe and Brazil. Now 15 years in, BerkShares, Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

And so after that experience, of writing that book, and talking to those people around the world and coming home, I had moved back to Brooklyn, New York, and I was thinking about what I wanted to do for my next project. And so I think it's easy to forget that we have this global impact as a nation of individuals, right?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

I mean there are so many things I enjoy on a day-to-day basis, from getting to work with all sorts of creative people all over the world who have just a vast array of experience that I learn from all the time. Ilyse Hogue: I enjoy, wow, that's a great question.

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