Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

Think of your donation receipt as an ambassador for your nonprofit, thanking the donor for their support. A word about inkind gifts: Of course you should always thank a donor who gives an inkind gift, such as a donation of bottled water, laundry detergent, pet food, or whatever. What makes a good ambassador? They are friendly.

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Donation Online Create Gift 98

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

I was an expert witness for the National Federation of the Blind (which had joined HathiTrust as a defendant) in the district court case, and Benetech filed an amicus brief in the HathiTrust appeal case supporting the decision of the district court. copyright law, also known as the Chafee Amendment.

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Accessibility Copyright Law Library 205

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. Responses from NMI students and alumni reveal that 94% say NMI courses are relevant to their daily work.

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Research Arizona Literacy Studies 67

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Of course, people are reluctant to talk about the failures, but a few people have studied this issue. To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities.

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India Foundation Student Children 100

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. It’s of course this last capability, flexibility, that is so powerful for people with disabilities. It was highly controversial.

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Accessibility eBook People Copyright 135

Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. Students develop and run a business, gain confidence, academic support, and mentorship. Of course find the full roster of Bay Area Google Impact Challenge Award winners here. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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San Francisco Award Google Challenge 61

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

A Cone/Roper report supports the Walker conclusions, noting that two-thirds of Americans claim to be more likely to support a company that aligns with a social issue (Phillips Business Information Inc., Annette is a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at ASU.

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Research Volunteer Program Business 85

Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

The mobile web, of course. American Literacy is Iffy. I’m going to give you all the same facts, and I want each of you to write the ‘lede’ of the story if it was going to appear in the student paper.”. In this case, students care far more about getting a day off school than a teaching conference.

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Web Effective Attention Structure 37

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

I consulted with Lewis (our testing expert and former tech support for these machines) and together with the customer, we were able get the reading machine working again. The goal of this repository is to ensure that students with print disabilities have easy access to textbooks. Whatever it took to slow things this project down.

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Washington Accessibility Student Library 100

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Discovery Center is a one-hour simulation in which groups of students (grade 5 and up) role play in a realistic, interactive environment. The students are each given roles on one of three teams--the Oval Office, a military command center, and a press room. The topic is the invasion of Grenada. You will make history.

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Grenada Student History Library 48

sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2024

Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, legacy systems, data literacy, and access to skills. Luckily, better technology solutions are now there to support sustainable growth, and recent innovations make these systems even stronger.

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Education Technology University Blended 98

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Auctions Auctions are a major source of funding for a lot of nonprofit associations because they engage the competitive spirits of supporters. Of course, they’re also challenging to manage as you’re handling the donations of items on one end and funds on the other. Using a theme can make this a little easier.

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Ideas Fundraising Movie Classes 98

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Kevin and the SEA today launched an Initiative To Protect the Meaning of Social Enterprise , supporting the efforts of our peers with Social Enterprise UK in their "NotInOurName" campaign. Here is the letter I'm sending to the USPTO supporting their initial recommendation against granting this registered trademark in the U.S.

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Social Literacy Open Source Application 196

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Rheingold suggests that is an example of social media literacy: Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively. (BTW,

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Literacy Twitter Feeds 75

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing. So that keeps me excited as well as, of course, the kids, when you see them go from, "Ew!

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Interview San Francisco Classroom Classes 40

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event.

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Ideas People Local Classes 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

So, we stretched out my visits to Bangkok, Vientiane and Chiang Mai to include some sight-seeing and, of course, shopping for Christmas presents in predominately Buddhist countries. All of the staff have name badges identifying them either as students or teachers. We call it using the social enterprise supply chain.

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Laos Asia Thailand Virginia 202