Tech Soup

JULY 22, 2014

When you work for an active and dynamic nonprofit or charity, it might feel like you're constantly learning new skills or building knowledge in different areas. Technology, especially, can be difficult to stay on top of with constantly updating operating systems and new versions of software. TechSoup Training Products.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

A passionate technology-for-good advocate, Gerardo has made major contributions to Benetech’s social mission since he joined us over four years ago. He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The world has finally moved beyond just electronically creating books that are then distributed as ordinary print books to actually delivering digital ebooks. In technical terms, this means that the next version of the DAISY format, version 4, will be the same as EPUB3, the main format used by commercial publishers of ebooks.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Transforming the Future Through Technology. Future goals include looking at how technology can help improve its CRM capabilities and build stronger relationships with both supporters and customers on the enterprise side of the organisation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

“As organizations,” Osborne said, “we must liberate spending to focus on the promotion, learning and innovation around braille,” and recognize that we ought to embrace today’s changing economics and technology so that braille can be part of an equation which delivers access to information for all, not just to those who can afford it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. Rebooting Your Digital Community Building." Staff have to see a payback or reason to get engaged themselves. So where to begin? for " Ctrl.

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Bloomerang

JULY 9, 2021

Might a graph like this help build true consensus around a difficult decision? . Today’s technology makes it fairly easy to build a good financial dashboard. Building a basic financial (or other) dashboard doesn’t have to break the bank. The good news: A good dashboard isn’t rocket science.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. The Lavelle Fund for the Blind has been a wonderful partner to Benetech.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 10, 2020

This required adapting their technology and related processes for remote access, collaboration , and security. Empower your staff to do things like build their own reports and dashboards so they don’t have to turn to IT for day-to-day tasks. This ebook is here to help guide you along that journey. Embrace change. Download now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. The initial part of the project was to do a detailed survey of existing assistive technology products, to get a baseline for current support for accessible graphics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. In my contribution to Ron’s book, I discuss the framework that guides us at Benetech, the technology nonprofit I lead.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2020

S trong nonprofit s build strategies for sustainability. With that in mind, Blackbaud has published an eBook entitled “Becoming a Resilient Nonprofit” that includes a round-up of sector resources and critical thinking on key strategies to ensure sustainability. Download the “Resilient Nonprofits” eBook now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

With technology, you can do incredible things, but with a galvanized community of supporters who work together toward a greater good, we can do anything. By partnering with all these stakeholders, we reinvented the traditional library for people with print disabilities and brought modern ebook technology to this underserved community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

While our activities often creates jobs beyond the core high technology jobs around software development and user support, we don't see it as our core competency. Phab is on a mission: she believes strongly that she is building her country by helping her students acquire the skills they will use to help advance Laos in the future.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education. What can be done today to build this accessible tomorrow?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. They also provide outreach and user support, which helps us keep our costs low as well as build local capacity to meet accessibility needs. Moreover, earlier this year we began offering books in MP3 format.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 7, 2016

As you build a healthy friendship, you’ll find 80% of your time/energy is centered on building each other up through sharing, laughing, and supporting to each other. Check out the latest npEXPERTs eBook ! The 80/20 Rule states that 80% of our content must be “gifts” to our followers and 20% will be calls to action.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 20, 2018

Building, delivering and supporting enterprise software is incredibly expensive. Learn how in our free ebook. Verify your AMS provider uses Person Accounts, the supported Salesforce architecture purpose-built for the use cases professional and trade associations face every day. Financial Stability. Learn More.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

It is nonprofit technology for use cases like constituent management, fundraising, marketing and communications, and program management. Customization doesn’t mean building everything from scratch, it means flexibility. Get a 360-Degree View of Constituents. A great example of this is Human Rights Watch.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion. Under our copyright exception, we simply buy a copy of the needed print book, scan it using optical character recognition, and create an accessible ebook.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Bookshare’s role was mixed: we didn’t end up attending many of these meetings and critiqued early efforts that were crippled by heavy-handed publisher influence, although we did propose at one point to supply technology to TIGAR based on Bookshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

This reality changed when both Kevin and Sophia learned about the accessible online library Bookshare , an initiative of Silicon Valley technology nonprofit Benetech. With its rapidly growing collection of over 225,000 (and counting) accessible ebooks, Bookshare is the world’s largest library of its kind.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). They made a great team: Steve was an enthusiastic salesman/CEO, passionate about building up Kenya through good IT jobs, and Carol ran the team. and we needed more help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Not only do they produce Braille in quantity, but the Press is also developing affordable technology for blind people such as screenreaders and talking ebook players. The facility was several buildings in a compound on the outskirts of Beijing. They are also planning on building an affordable Braille display.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

These are my links for January 16th through February 6th: How Twitter is Being Used By Companies | Mobile Technology in TAFE - Great post from Sue Waters about how different companies are using Twitter. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas."

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 18, 2018

No matter what your objective, take this campaign principle and whatever your task is, determine how you can leverage your supporters’ relationships to build your base. As technology continues to advance and improve the efficiency of running a campaign, an age-old strategy has been making a reappearance this year. Personal touches.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2015

We start Things We Like in the cloud ( technology ebook, in.pdf ), complete with special Amy cameo. Where in the world is that building? The Planet Money Podcast explores the co-dependency of innovation in its recent episode, “The Technology Tango.” Pure paradise! Last year was so … last year.

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NTEN

AUGUST 24, 2012

In between rounds of Flukey Ball and deep fried sticks of butter, we've managed to wrangle some highlights for you: from a chance to win a $5,000 grant and an ebook collection to free and interactive fundraising tools, check out what your fellow NTENers have been up to lately.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That same big-picture trait that gets my heart a-flutter for classic lit is why I’m excited about the NEW 2016 Big Idea eBook. Whether they help you retarget your donor outreach, streamline your technology systems, or tell more powerful stories, they will help you focus your work to have the most impact.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2014

As you read this eBook, I encourage you to look for opportunities to improve your existing constituent relationships and ways to build new ones. At the speed technology and the world are changing, keeping pace is vital to your long-term success. The Constituent Lifecycle: A Complete Guide to the Donor Experience from Blackbaud.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2020

Digital transformation is, to put it simply, rethinking how our organizations operate through the use of digital technology. Throughout our sector, each and every nonprofit is in a different place when it comes to using digital technologies and foundational data. Question: How will digital transformation help you to diversify revenue?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Build in extra supports for your team.” -- Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg, co-authors of, Game Changer. For more advice on how to lead your organization through the pandemic, see Grossman’s new (free) ebook, 12 Tips for Employers to Navigate the Future World of Work. The world just gave permission to have people working remotely.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2020

In reimagining these events, we must take care to harness the essence of the competition by empowering and recognizing participants, while getting creative with building a virtual or socially distanced community, eager to take on the challenges of the activity, as well as fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2020

Download the free eBook: “ A Unique Approach to Student Prospecting: 5 Ways to Build Your Brand as a Trusted Advisor” 3. Remove Technology Concerns. Take advantage of the websites that are out there doing free technology checks for students and include these in correspondence.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2014

Getting rejected by seven different technologies is exhausting – in relationships and in fundraising. Build groups that respond best to each channel. Check out the eBook for more donor acquisition advice! He replies by sending an email to her at work. She responds via text message. Then he emails her at home.

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