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3 Blackbaud School Websites Win 2023 WebAwards

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The WebAward competition has been the premier award recognition program for website developers and the online marketing community since 1997. eBook How to Design the Best Private School Website Download Now The post 3 Blackbaud School Websites Win 2023 WebAwards first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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5 Ways Good Technology and Data Improve Our Community Foundation’s Morale

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Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) is a statewide community foundation with a staff of 38 and offices in Portland and Ellsworth, plus three remote offices in Maine and one in New York, NY. We all live in a world filled with technology, which can prove to be a help and hinderance to our work and personal lives.

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Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

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The Day aims to raise awareness of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and the benefits derived from their integration in the social, economic, cultural and political life of their communities. This innovative approach is now opening up completely new horizons.

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A Call for Millions: Ending the Global Book Famine for the Blind

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We have the technology. We have the ebooks. The Global Treaty for the Blind makes it legal to create ebooks for people with disabilities without having to pay a royalty or getting permission. We have hundreds of thousands of ebooks in a dozen languages already available globally. We can scale quickly.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

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Remarks Here are my remarks to the Leadership Conference on receiving the Migel Medal from Carl Augusto and Paul Schroeder of AFB: It’s a great honor to address the leadership of this field, and receive the Migel Medal in recognition of our shared commitment to service to the community of people who are blind or visually impaired.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Love of the print book.

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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!

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“They get frustrated and don’t want to read,” she says, “but access to digital books and reading technologies changed all that for Zach.” Zach Bryant The change happened when Zach was in high school and his Assistive Technology teacher introduced him to Benetech’s Bookshare library. Thank you for your support!

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