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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So, this is an in-depth report on the two days I just spent at the end of last week in Geneva. There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Lost Your Tax-Exemption? What Next ?

ASU Lodestar Center

What Next — posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center The IRS has begun to revoke the tax-exempt status for those nonprofit organizations that have not filed some form of a 990 (information report) for three years. These smaller nonprofits were not required to file a year-end information report.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The largest one, reporting $2.3 The next one is Educational Care, in Tempe, who reported $1.8 They reported $1.2

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. From there you can download an Excel file named "Arizona A-Z," or click here to download it directly.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Fast Company reports that the fastest growing age group using Facebook and Google+ are people over 45. It also has back-end tools including hosted Exchange (email), SharePoint (file serving), and Lync (messaging and conferencing). I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages.

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Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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April 15, 2008 | Jordan V Copyright © 2008, Care2.com » Friday Mar 28 2008 Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released Friday, March 28, 2008 at 11:53AM | by James OMalley Convio recently released their second annual nonprofit online marketing benchmarks study. Check out the full study here. All rights reserved.