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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

The Sweepstakes is open to individuals, submitting on behalf of nonprofit organizations and libraries all over the world, who are attending the 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference ("17 NTC") in Washington, DC. and Canada (who do not live in the U.S. Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial. a) In General.

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Whom Should You Trust to Help with Your Nonprofit?

ASU Lodestar Center

Many law firms, for instance, require their employees to do pro bono hours, which helps with their branding. Are their other clients Sierra Club-sized or more like the local library? Canada, the United Kingdom and over 100 other countries. But the real question is, how are you the right fit for them? Are you the only nonprofit?

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. I’d also modestly recommend our Cloud Basics for Nonprofits and Libraries. Like my colleague Jane Zhang at TechSoup Canada , I pegged the Internet of Things (IoT) as something to watch this year. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

and we work with dozens of clients in Canada, States on an annual basis, and we look at all sorts of other. So Fraser Green, great fundraiser in Canada who was working for an organization, left it. And Canada’s 180 international development agencies, what makes you different from them? But essentially.

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Preparing for Planned Giving Conversations—24 Terms You Need to Know

Connection Cafe

and Canada is around $57,000. 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. A percentage amount, such as “.