Achieve

MAY 3, 2024

Let's explore how data analytics can be strategically applied to crucial components of your fundraising event, helping guide you towards making more informed decisions and impactful outcomes. Email Outreach Before your event begins, building excitement and driving participation is crucial to your success. Anything above 0.3%

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As Hispanic Heritage Month unfolds, there’s a renewed urgency and opportunity for organizations to delve deeper, recognizing and celebrating the profound impact of Latino narratives on our shared American story. These events can help educate participants about the Latino community’s role in shaping the nation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Of course, accessibility is right up Benetech’s alley and the focus of our Literacy program. Bookshare is dramatically exceeding its five-year collection and member targets at the close of the fourth year of our Bookshare for Education (B4E) project funded by the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. Accordingly, U.S. federal law supports braille instruction.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. You are someone who dreams about using your management and leadership skills and love of technology for social impact, exceeding the bounds of what a regular for-profit business can do.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 24, 2023

More engaged supporters, increased donations, and a wider impact on the community.  Participants track the number of pages they’ve read or books they’ve completed on a leaderboard to support literacy and education. The result? Read-A-Thon   Combine the love of reading with friendly competition.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2024

Be sure to share genuine, personal thank you messages that greet the donor by name, reference the specific ways they are supporting your mission, and report on the impact their gift will make. Make sure to focus on the larger impact this support would have (e.g., “By Keep in mind that this process is rarely linear.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. with the books they need for educational success. and James L. and James L.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

10X: ten times the impact. Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. That’s what’s been on my mind lately.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This latest Member Round Up features lots of goodies, from tips on social media and email campaigns, to new research on impact investing and Idealist''s funny obsession drawing a famous actor. The Case Foundation crunched some numbers on impact investing, read the full story and see what they found. Register now!

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of government, DEI, education, arts, health, cultural institutions, and annual reports for corporate communications. Distinction – Website for Education.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

By Stephanie Kanak , Content Strategist at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. If you had a time machine and could go back to before coronavirus (COVID-19) impacted the world, how would you prepare? Participate in webinars for education and support from other fundraisers.”.

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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.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Fort Meyers, FL/ $445. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / TBD. The IMPACT Conference. Jan 23 -27.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We get a huge amount of pro bono assistance from the legal profession, both because of our social impact as a nonprofit, and because of the challenging and interesting issues we tackle.

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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. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. I believe in the power of books to change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. He suggests these goals: 1.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. What is impact?

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

One CVA who organizes volunteers in the Dallas metro area lamented the impacts of COVID-19 on their operations. As a volunteer administrator at an educational nonprofit in Oregon explained: Our volunteer opportunities are usually during the school day, so we have a lot of retired people. But now we are limping along.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Our winners represent a little glamour from the Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, plus some creativity from Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Literacy Services of Wisconsin. Manifesting beautiful content is easy with Adobe!! Our third place, bronze prize goes to Literacy Services of Wisconsin (LSW). spanhidden.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2016

Second, The Brand IDEA by Nathalie Laidler-Kylander and Julia Shepard Stenzel argues today’s brands must uphold mission impact by building trust, cohesion, capacity and impact, not necessarily qualities for which corporate brands strive. The Brand IDEA: Managing Nonprofit Brands with Integrity, Democracy and Affinity.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Those dreams had so much of an impact that McDonald and her husband ended up selling all of their belongings to go to Haiti and help rebuild the country. It hit her like a lightning bolt that this could be a solution for Haiti…that she could build a digital content platform,” Stephans said. She didn’t know anybody there.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries. "There have been numerous initiatives to create educational spaces within Second Life." The Rise of Virtual Libraries.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

Ideas include financial literacy training, fundraising discussions, or a presentation about a political or economic issue that affects your organization. Of course, a client or member’s first-person account of change is also a terrific educational tool. The big picture. Decision points. Yet, it’s one worth investing some time.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

In a discussion led by Sara Thomas from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), panelists from PETA, Change.org, and DoSomething.org shared key elements behind some of the most successful campaigns that their organizations have been a part of, and the personal and emotional connections behind the scenes that have resulted in real impact. >>Read

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

How do those learning environments impact institutions? Funded the infrastructure, and less well on content. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Translate what gamers do into the language of "normal traditional education" and out of school time learning? New learning environment puts games at the center.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

For instance, people working in creative fields might appreciate more visually-driven content, while those in the business or technical fields may prefer more data-backed content. This could be environmental issues, education, or arts. However, many guests are drawn to attend because they want to contribute to your impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

The expert predictions about the impact of the internet over the next 10 years came in response to questions asked by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted between Dec. The following positive and negative themes about the impact of digital life surfaced: Positives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. We sell our content to mainstream and other media organizations all over the world. I said, "You write it. You tell your story."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008. Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. We want to ensure that every student with a disability no longer has the handicap of lacking textbooks or other important educational material.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

The Science Center World Congress looked standard in makeup--keynotes, plenaries, parallel panels--and yet the content was made distinctly different by the people involved. Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science. It was also a frustrating experience.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

This is an example of a peer-to-peer event page by BEACON for Adult Literacy.]. BEACON for Adult Literacy’s peer-to-peer page draws users in with a branded banner image showcasing what this event is and the core mission—adult literacy. The fundraiser leaderboard and thermometer are testaments to the success of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Building on this concept, Beth asked nonprofit leaders to enter the contest by explaining what their organization’s singular, most important activity would be in 2011 that would at-once drive social impact, engage supporters and increase revenues. Now that’s social impact! Project Animal Worldwide , Ellen La Torre.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Unfortunately, safeguarding human rights information can’t be distinguished from piracy, if the contents are encrypted.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Reviewing where we were at the beginning of 2009, it’s amazing to see the growth in impact that Benetech and our team have had in the world. For years, our extraordinary cohort of dedicated volunteer scanners has provided Bookshare with most of its new content. of Education won’t change: we’ll do twice as much for the same price.

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