Community Global Library Literacy 
Bloomerang
MAY 6, 2022
Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Lisa Libraries. The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. We named this library Bookshare because it was created with an army of crowdsourcing volunteers, many of them blind people themselves, who scan the books using optical character recognition.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. This week, nearly a year after first beginning to work with Room to Read, we’re proud to be taking part in promoting Literacy Day.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. This year, it’s been especially worrisome to see the rising tide of violence against the lesbian and gay communities around the world. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 17, 2014
The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. In the U.S.,
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock.
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