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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

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copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law.

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Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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finds that charities aren’t effectively engaging younger donors via mobile friendly channels like social media and mobile optimized websites. It also has back-end tools including hosted Exchange (email), SharePoint (file serving), and Lync (messaging and conferencing). A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact.

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Whats an Email Address Worth? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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In selecting the number of addresses you can use a subset, such as all email gathered from a particular source or in a given year, or your entire file. Organizations that use multiple channels to appeal for support report a higher value and larger gifts from their online supporters. FAQs Q: How is drop-off measured?

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Whats an Email Address Worth? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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In selecting the number of addresses you can use a subset, such as all email gathered from a particular source or in a given year, or your entire file. Organizations that use multiple channels to appeal for support report a higher value and larger gifts from their online supporters. FAQs Q: How is drop-off measured?

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. Fundamentally, the Arkenstone Reader allowed blind people to create their own personal ebook as a text file that could be read in something like Microsoft Word. It makes a copyright exception like the U.S. The first was the ebook.

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Insiders Guide to Video and YouTube for Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Nonprofits that apply and meet the guidelines receive increased upload capacity and branding options, the option to embed a Google Checkout button on their channels, and the opportunity to be featured in one of the promoted areas of YouTube. We use a file size measurement -- video files must be under 300 MB. All rights reserved.

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