Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2019

EcoCards in an online store of digital e-cards. Humble Bundle is an online store that sells games, ebooks, and software. Tapkat enables nonprofits to create online fundraising sweepstakes. The 2019 Global NGO Technology Survey is now live! EcoCards.org :: ecocards.org. Nonprofits can enroll for $50 a year.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. In 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As We strongly support this position and believe the digital content revolution holds the best promise for the future of braille.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

Proteus Digital Health is developing pills with sensors in them called ‘ingestibles’ Each ingestible sensor is the size of a grain of sand and doesn’t contain any toxic substances. They’re being created mainly to help mental health patients adhere to a prescription medication regimen.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

While there are standard reports built in Raiser’s Edge, if you need to create custom and specialized reports, you would have previously had to use Crystal Reports for Blackbaud. The solution can take your data and make it easier for you to create custom reports and dashboards to understand and take action with your data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Benetech was a proud endorser of these objections (under our legal organizational name of Beneficent Technology, Inc.). Wouldn''t that create more demand for our Bookshare online library? People with print disabilities are the most natural customers in the world for digital versions of books.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

When an organization embraces the culture of creating and empowering all staff to become “brand ambassadors,” authentic and exponential growth starts to happen. Rebooting Your Digital Community Building." In 2010, she published her short book and ebook, Nine Steps to a Successful Fundraising Campaign. This isn’t a new concept.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The next time you set your digital device of choice to record your favorite show so you can watch it whenever you want, take a moment to be thankful that you’re protected from lawsuits from the entertainment industry. It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

He considered himself a “problem-solving lawyer” and warned me against getting involved with “problem-creating lawyers!” That was how the organization we now know of as Benetech was created and how I became a social entrepreneur (this was more than a decade before we had heard the term). I went to Gerry with the idea for Bookster.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2020

With that in mind, Blackbaud has published an eBook entitled “Becoming a Resilient Nonprofit” that includes a round-up of sector resources and critical thinking on key strategies to ensure sustainability. Nonprofit missions grind to a halt without the automation and digital tools that technology brings to the table.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. What I liked most was the idea to create a body of knowledge that’s truly helpful to prospective and emerging social entrepreneurs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Thanks again!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Most recently, PCL has been a trailblazer in providing mobile technology to their patrons, redefining what library services means. “With shrinking municipal budgets and nonstop technological advancement, public libraries need to be customer-driven and ensure their programs keep pace with patrons’ evolving needs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. They send Bookshare the same digital book files that they provide to Amazon, Apple or Barnes and Noble.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This revolution began in 2019 with an overhaul of the RSPCA’s workload management and supporter relationship processes, which saw the nonprofit shift to cloud-based platforms, automation, digital channels, and mobile apps. Better Outcomes for Staff and Animals. Powering Through the Pandemic and Beyond. About the Author. Susan Mahon.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 10, 2021

This approach ensures your organization is keeping up with the latest technological advances without budget-busting fees and broken customizations. Download this guide to discover three keys to adopting this kind of future-focused technology for your association. eBook: 6 things you should know before selecting your next AMS.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. The third blog post in this series on Bookshare International will describe our adventures creating the library’s first offerings in Arabic. Moreover, earlier this year we began offering books in MP3 format.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, have a look at all our Nonprofit Technology News pieces from this past year. TechSoup Technologies for Good. Hacker Helper is all about not reinventing the technology wheel.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S. Under our copyright exception, we simply buy a copy of the needed print book, scan it using optical character recognition, and create an accessible ebook. We go to great lengths to ensure the digital works we provide are restricted to bona fide patrons with disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We take their files and convert them to the DAISY format which is a digital format designed specifically to create accessible materials for people with print disabilities. More and more publishers are asking that we return to them the DAISY files we create. O'Reilly is again leading the charge. Why is this a big deal?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Oranje Fonds offers both financial and non-financial support that includes training, awareness building, and volunteer mobilisation on a massive scale, assisted by one of the most sophisticated digital marketing platforms out there. Oranje Fonds is passionate about supporting their work. Building Better Relationships Through Insight.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

However, the time has come when we need a really smart attorney to join Benetech and help us navigate the intersection of technology and social good. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Technological Protection Measures. These are the digital locks that make it hard to copy digital content. It creates an international import/export regime for the exchange of accessible books across borders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

We think that all publishers should sell accessible ebooks when they sell their books through mainstream channels, but the copyright exception leaves that decision to the publishers except for this narrow community of people who are significantly disabled when it comes to print. Employ "Social Digital Rights Management" technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

I’m thrilled to announce that I contributed to: npEXPERTS: Fundraising Ideas and Marketing Tips from the Pros (#npEXPERTS), a 46-page free e-book collaboratively written by a cross-section of npEXPERTS in fundraising, marketing and communications, social media, mobile technology, digital advertising, and more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, it's a dream that the commercial ebook vendors keep dashing. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") workaround. I also have a Kindle1, and have bought a bunch of Kindle ebooks. The Textbook problem. The Closed Platform problem.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education. In addition, it is essential to ensure that all newly created digital content is made accessible from the outset.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2019

Listen in to hear what Sam has to say about where to start to increase inter-departmental collaboration, how creating personas can help organizations operate more effectively, mirroring the donor’s journey with evergreen content, and the importance of technology to bring all the pieces together. Creating meaningful and lasting content.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

After a lot of number crunching and data visualization, our 28 page free report, Private School Digital Insight: Enhancing Web Navigation and the Rise of Responsive Design , answers those questions and more. Why did we create this report? Do they use basic SEO practices? Does everyone have an admission or an admissions link?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Bookshare’s role was mixed: we didn’t end up attending many of these meetings and critiqued early efforts that were crippled by heavy-handed publisher influence, although we did propose at one point to supply technology to TIGAR based on Bookshare.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

With the rise of intuitive touch-based computing and streamlined user interfaces, technology is more accessible to different age groups than ever before. Studies show that in recent years, older users have proven to be very adaptable when it comes to new technologies and are just as likely to donate online as their younger counterparts.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Creating and running a successful CSR program these days is no longer a “nice to have,” it is the new expectation. Some of this research is highlighted in Blackbaud’s CSR 2020: Experts Look Ahead eBook, which includes insights from a number of CSR thought leaders.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2017

After working in digital fundraising and marketing for over 8 years, I’ve learned the power of numbers. Data is also the irrefutable evidence we need to get approval for a new tactic, employee, or technology. Or, do you want to create a benchmark report of your online fundraising effort? Analytics Driven Fundraising eBook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Alcoholic beverage tastings are frequently held as special events and are surprisingly simple to create online. While this approach may not bring in as much cash upfront, the benefit is that you may continue to attract consumers to your business and create consistent donations over a long period of time. 4) Happy hours/wine tasting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2020

By Christy Noel , Vice President of Digital Fundraising Services at MobileCause. With today’s technology it’s pretty easy and straightforward to host an impressive virtual event or campaign. Another option is to create a Facebook Group and invite-only registrants into it. If that’s you, do not fear. Event Page.

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