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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The first is developing strong local partners , such as disability NGOs, libraries or educational institutions that help us customize our services to the specific needs of their communities. The third pillar of Bookshare International is developing new language capabilities. This is an area of special focus for our Bookshare team.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Many of the publishers do provide us with permissions do not have global rights, and limit the availability of these books to certain jurisdictions • We first launched international Bookshare in India and have more than 1000 members there, as well as permissions agreements with more than ten publishers in India • We have recently concluded agreements (..)

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

Moreover, the image is focused on an individual which allows the reader to empathize with the child and imagine her succeeding — and the key stats about the DREAM community suggest she will! The nonprofit lets the impact stand on its own on certain pages – no pictures, very little language, and lots of white space.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

nap and dusted the snow off, we want to share the huge outpouring of blog posts, videos, pictures, and other media from the NTEN community. All of you - the community - are the special sauce that makes the NTC the amazing event it is. Rebooting Your Digital Community Building , Lori Jacobwith. Speakers: 250.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

nap and dusted the snow off, we want to share the huge outpouring of blog posts, videos, pictures, and other media from the NTEN community. All of you - the community - are the special sauce that makes the NTC the amazing event it is. Rebooting Your Digital Community Building , Lori Jacobwith. Speakers: 250.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana. Freedom Fone was introduced at two radio stations: Radio Maria in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Volta Star radio in the Volta region of Ghana. Making radio more accessible in Ghana. When listeners called, they were able to choose their language. Challenges and issues.

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Lessons from IGS16: The How-To’s for Applying the SDGs to Grantmaking

Connection Cafe

IDP’s pilot program in Ghana started with initial enrollment of 27,000 children and now is expected to reach a total of 150,000 children by July 2017. Over the last five years, we have collected feedback from over 5,000 touchpoints within the philanthropic community to understand how organizations are measuring and reporting their outcomes.