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12 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2019

Nonprofit Tech for Good

EcoCards in an online store of digital e-cards. Humble Bundle is an online store that sells games, ebooks, and software. The 2019 Global NGO Technology Survey is now live! If you work at a nonprofit or NGO, please volunteer 6-8 minutes of your time and take the survey. EcoCards.org :: ecocards.org.

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Advancing Reading Equality with Bookshare’s Exponential Growth

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

At Benetech, we always ask ourselves how our existing successful programs can reach more people who need our services and how we can apply technology in new ways to enrich and improve more lives. a11y accessibility Bookshare Braille DAISY ebooks Global Literacy print disabilities Reading' The majority of our members are U.S.

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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

“They get frustrated and don’t want to read,” she says, “but access to digital books and reading technologies changed all that for Zach.” Zach Bryant The change happened when Zach was in high school and his Assistive Technology teacher introduced him to Benetech’s Bookshare library. Thank you for your support!

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Technology Training Resources for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

And while you might be a super worker or volunteer, you're not super human so you shouldn't be expected to know everything about everything. Technology, especially, can be difficult to stay on top of with constantly updating operating systems and new versions of software. Idealware Training in Technology Planning.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Poet supports image descriptions for electronic books created in the international DAISY standard for digital talking books and will be compatible with descriptions for ebooks in the EPUB3 format. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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Digital Transformation: A Tale of Two Resilient Nonprofits

Connection Cafe

Digital transformation is, to put it simply, rethinking how our organizations operate through the use of digital technology. In a recent webinar poll , the audience was evenly split when asked what digital transformation means to them. Question: What started your digital transformation journey?

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