Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. Caltech feeds an intense curiosity, a burning desire to understand, to grapple with hard problems and to own them!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. RAN is establishing Resilience Innovation Labs within participating universities throughout Africa, coupled with online laboratories and a new online science library to help with its work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

As we build new enterprises, our goal is for them to break even from revenues (or come close), while also making the maximum positive impact. million downloads of accessible books through its online library, to over 200,000 people with disabilities such as blindness and severe dyslexia. Talk about Big Data!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Khan Academy (Windows Phone, iPad) is a nonprofit on a mission to change education.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

In actuality, hackathons are events where ideas are hatched and technology needs are met — making them excellent opportunities for nonprofits, charities, and libraries! The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

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. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem. Accordingly, U.S.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. We’re building new cataloging software that we eventually hope to provide free of charge to jumpstart other collections. Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Donors and volunteers don’t support you so you can buy a new printer or move into a better building. You may want to spend some time on the front lines of your nonprofit gathering stories and creating a story library so you have several ready when you need them. It shows donors that their actions are making a difference.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" Here at TechSoup, we're excited to see nonprofits and public libraries as well as our donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco, involved with TechHire. " Year Up therefore takes a holistic approach to preparing its students for the workforce. Building a New Source of Talent. " Changing Corporate Culture.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact.

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

Experiments like these build on each other, and having a written record of the questions you’re asking , how you’re testing them, and what you learned from them is critical for building impact that lasts. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Want more tips like this?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. How to Build International Awareness, Cooperation, and Friendship Among Asian Youth. The remaining students must hold classes outside underneath trees, if weather permits.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Leonard Library. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for eight years now. We have served more than 12,300 nonprofits and libraries across all 50 states, and we estimate that we have have saved organizations somewhere in the neighborhood of $4.5

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

A Shopify store is a great fundraising tool for nonprofits that sell branded merchandise, arts, or crafts; for libraries that run book sales; and much more. The Guide by Cell donation program includes a one-year subscription for a mobile website that you build online using an easy drag-and-drop website builder.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems. There are big problems with tracking and verifying a learners’ CE balance. To wit, we in online learning are often in the business of managing transactions.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec gives a lot back to the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup — See what organizations like yours are saying about their donated Symantec products. Women are underrepresented in the field of technology, and it’s a global problem. Symantec Supports Women in Technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. In 2004, the United States passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , requiring schools to provide special education services to eligible students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease. The class of 27 students have been collecting pennies and donated $100 to Ohio Nature Education, a nonprofit offering environmental education programs, and secured $150 for the organization.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It doesn’t rely solely on the relatively few big data centers out there, but rather on the emerging Internet of Things in which processors are embedded into appliances, thermostats, cars, street lights, buildings, etc. Very sophisticated for a student team. The concept of the Nonprofit Exchange is that any U.S.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Doing this legwork early helps you build a great base of support and is a method to create excitement on the big day. Be sure to connect nostalgia and fun social sharing activities with messaging that demonstrates the impact of their gift on students today. Opportunity 2: Who said unruly participation rates were a problem?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. 826 National is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

My background is in campus organizing, and in helping college students connect with others working to create social change across perspective, issue, approach, and geography. Third, a pledge called " Bakul-Library " is definitely one of my favorite stories. Heather Cronk 1. Tell me about you. What's your background?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

I got plenty of videos on my YouTube that they can watch about how to build more courage. You need to get honest with yourself because we’re going to solve the problem here. Just start building relationships. Try to build relationships and just connect with people. Build relationships and get to know each other.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. We would bring students. We work with about 60,000 refugees from across the continent.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If your organization provides after-school support, you serve students and may provide academic enrichment, social opportunities, and activities. What about your students’ families? Should supporting the families of the students you serve be part of your mission? Libraries often have conference rooms you can reserve.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. The problem is that we provide technology that allows for security, privacy and circumvention.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The presentation, hosted by Blackbaud and building on CFM’s TrendsWatch 2019 , touched on ways that museum workers can design their own self-care practices, how museums can support selfcare, and how museums can reform their organizational practices in ways that reduce the need for self-care.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Problem: AnnieCannons employs only three full-time staff members in their fight against human trafficking, which means it needs to be as efficient as possible in managing its contacts and business processes. However, AnnieCannons is also like a business, which is where data and process management gets a little more complicated.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

Matching Techies With Social Causes SocialCoding4Good began with the idea of building a sort of Match.com for tech volunteerism — an algorithmic platform that would match individual software developers to nonprofit organizations that were building open source software for socially good causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. The problem is that we provide technology that allows for security, privacy and circumvention.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Some models are meant to be used as building blocks to help you assemble longer documents. is the growing library of writing models(skills) specific to nonprofits and fundraising. Problem-Agitate-Solution-Impact A reliable and powerful writing formula to help your audience connect emotionally with your important work.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Students and teachers excel in classrooms that have all the resources they need to keep learning and teaching. Food insecurity is one of the country’s most prevalent issues and, while it is a complex problem, food drives can help lessen the impact of food insecurity on households in your community. Donation Drive Ideas. Food drive.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2017

Many wills and trusts are still written with quite formal language and might be similar to this example: “ I give, bequeath, and devise the sum of fifty-thousand dollars ($50,000) to Middletown Library, located at 123 Main Sreet, Middletown, Wyoming. Ten percent (10%) of my estate to Middletown Library.”.

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