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Benetech Truth #1: Social Change Through Technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

At Benetech, our team is committed to using technology to drive positive social change. Through our Bookshare online library, they now have equal access to the books they need for education, employment and full participation in society! We want to see technology serve much more of humanity than just the richest ten percent.

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48 Top Nonprofit Podcasts in 2023

Whole Whale

This leads to a rather large podcast graveyard in the iTunes library making it very hard to find current podcasts. We hope that you enjoy this summary of great nonprofit podcasts and please let us know if we left some off !

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How Online Collaboration is Changing Scholarship

Forum One

Wulf shared a personal example of how online collaboration has positively changed the way his daughter, Karin, works. This highly specialized research is commonplace in the academic world, and the internet has changed not only the research, but "the sociology of how people do humanistic scholarship."

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Introducing the 2013 Communities of Impact

NTEN

The idea is to create clear, measurable organizational change to participating nonprofits while sharing the learnings and findings with the whole community. Participants are encouraged to use their own organizations as testing grounds, engaging colleagues in the conversations and work related to CoI projects throughout the year.

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Back to Blogging with a Roundup of Terrific Articles

Museum 2.0

read The Northwest London Blues - a gorgeous essay by novelist Zadie Smith about libraries, British politics, and changing perspectives on community space. She knits together nostalgia and activism with a level of nuance rarely found in debates about the value of museums, libraries, and other cultural spaces.

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Building a Better World

Tech Soup

nonprofits and public libraries through TechSoup - is a company founded with a vision of. Humanity too, as well as with the Nature Conservancy , working on trails. change in society to help build a more sustainable future. BetterWorld Telecom - a provider of audio conferencing, VoIP services, and donated phones for.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Framework for Producing Transformative Change Two key concepts from the book really stuck with me. The first is their core concept of equilibrium change. The primary goal in the Valley is massive change, because when you’re a for-profit that magnitude usually yields massive profits. The authors present a two-by-two matrix.

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