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. How can we make tactiles easier to produce, use and share?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Built on our Martus technology, Mobile Martus is designed to bring secure data collection, storage, and backup closer to activists working in the field. But what about everybody else?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In case you haven''t already grabbed a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller ''s new book, A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money , it will guide you through designing and implementing a content marketing strategy that will bring in supporters.

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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. However, I don’t want to understate the challenges we face.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Additional resources: Digital Skills Framework — a taxonomy of digital skills, plus further learning resources to help build skills in each area, aimed at global nonprofits. Northstar Digital Literacy has some online assessments free to individuals. Or take advantage of free tools.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Global Fund For Children. Their grantmaking aims to ensure that American public education prepares all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to fully participate in democracy and thrive in the global economy. Global Fund For Children. Funding Priority: Education. Mellon Foundation. Kars4Kids Foundation.

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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. Together with the World Blind Union and other campaigners, we set out to get a global treaty that would not only replicate the U.S. And, the U.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM. With its new Grants Management tool, Salesforce.org has started to create an all-in-one solution designed to streamline the tedious grantmaking process. Malala Fund is partnering with ACE Charity in Nigeria to provide children.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Cristi Hegranes, Global Press Institute – Global Press Institute (GPI) advances both responsible global journalism and community empowerment by offering journalism training to women around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Our breakthrough in the conception of Martus came in 2000, when I was looking to expand Benetech to new frontiers of social good beyond our origins—helping disabled people access books in what is now our Global Literacy program.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Xperience Design Project. Nonprofit Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Brilliance by Design by Vicki Halsey. A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. The model balances content, learning design, and participants. Brian Solis’s The End of Business As Usual and Brian Reich’s Shift and Reset.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

And w e would like to spotlight a few in the TechSoup community who have joined us in championing this second annual national day of giving : InvestED has launched a volunteer and donation program specially designed around Giving Tuesday. And while you’re at it, c heck out PEC’s and InvestED tech stories on the LIM.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Our Nonprofits Live interactive series is designed to address such questions and find solutions for the toughest organizational issues. Ken is currently working as the Worldview Literacy Project Manager at The Institute of Noetic Sciences. " is a top question we hear at TechSoup from the organizations we serve. Pacific time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

It made remember the workshops I taught way back in 1993 for arts people about Internet literacy - the web was just getting started. It's funny looking at these - because they are all about connections, people, transportation metaphors, networks, global, etc. What does the Internet look like ? you would get similar images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

He not only picks up the technical part very quickly, but he is enjoying the design and editing process. Since her parents work in the Sharing Foundation's farm program, she attended the Foundation's Khmer Literacy School which helped her enter the local village school. Click To Play. Harry and I are enjoying making media together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment. Gaming is literacy.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Deloitte then came up with four design principles informed by millennials: Technology before/during/after learning programs enables people to connect. In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management. To this end, the Mondel?z

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Women are underrepresented in the field of technology, and it’s a global problem. Symantec’s grant is applied toward their Global Partnership Businesswomen’s Network in the Middle East and North Africa. Symantec Supports Women in Technology. Education received approximately 50 percent of Symantec’s dollars.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. It is densely populated with 92 million people.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

But did you know that our work is global? TechSoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that enables civil society organizations and changemakers around the world to gain effective access to the resources they need to design and implement technology solutions for a more equitable planet. Find your local #Tech4Good group.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Indirect Content. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 3, 2015

Instead of selling a designer jacket for $2 in a thrift store, what if we could take the jacket, maximize its value and donate up to 55 percent of the proceeds to any cause chosen by the donor? And every dress, handbag, and designer shoe donated is fueling a movement that’s impacting the lives of others around the world.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2022

The most sustainable, reusable, scalable solutions that will truly move the needle must be designed with the expertise of those closest to the problem – local climate action experts and the communities they serve. Climate change is a global, systemic crisis and there are many points of entry.”. Solutions need to be designed to last.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects. The design of media is for more activist and personal interaction. It starts in the home. Parents are facing challenges.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2007

But what if the goal was to band together to save the world from a real threat—like global warming, AIDS, or mass genocide? She is an expert in alternate reality gaming (ARGs), the first woman to keynote at the Game Developers Conference, and she’s thrown down the gauntlet for a game designer to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences by 2032.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in three sessions: a Pecha Kucha design blitz, a dialogue on bridging online/onsite connections, and a discussion of the IMLS 21st Century Skills report. Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

in Auckland, New Zealand, TechSoup hosted a #Storymakers2014 global discussion via Twitter. Important issues emerged in the conversation: data access, data literacy, design of platform, dissemination strategy, and impact measurement. On September 4, 2014, beginning at 3 p.m.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education. Global Fund For Women. Wallace Global Fund. Boulware Foundation. eWomen Foundation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education. Global Fund For Women. Wallace Global Fund. Boulware Foundation. eWomen Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

This is helpful if an emergency occurs that prevents face-to-face meetings (like bad weather or a global pandemic) or if you simply want to increase participation with digital attendees. This is an example of a peer-to-peer event page by BEACON for Adult Literacy.]. Organizations create a design and a Bonfire campaign page.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! French fashion designer and business woman Coco Chanel did much more than make clothing. Do you love ladies in literature? Gertrude B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But how will you know the answer if you don’t set up a test and use measurement and data to help you answer it. This is called “data literacy” — setting up a hypothesis and a way to measure it – and analyzing the results and deciding how to improve. To Promote or Not to Promote? (…and

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if I provide 10 English as a second language or 10 computer literacy programs a year for 10 people, let’s just say that’s 100 pieces of content, that’s service. So earlier I mentioned maybe a parent who took English as a second language classes or maybe they got their GED or they took those computer literacy programs.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

There is a tendency to designate these less experienced directors as “juniors” who get seated at the “kids’ table.” The global perspective that comes from growing up in an interconnected world. Give the Ys and Zs the Lead Diversity awareness has motivated most boards to add younger members.

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