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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

HBCUs have long played a pivotal role in the United States. Foundation staff insight HBCUs educate and support the largest number of Black professionals in fields, such as medicine, law, and engineering. We’ve also made select data tables from the report available in this downloadable Excel file.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Since almost all content for the last decade originates as a digital file, using OCR on the scanned page or the PDF image document is a painful reverse engineering process that delivers lower quality access at much greater cost than native full access. Amazon now ships more ebooks than print books in the United States.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. Moreover, Bookshare basically breaks even in the United States thanks to contracts to provide the services, from the U.S.

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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright law. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law. A professional with expertise in assessing disabilities needs to certify each Bookshare member as meeting these qualifications (the copyright law in the U.S. Employ "Social Digital Rights Management" technology.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. He would play me a 90’s punk song, and I’d download Pat Benatar (saying, I had music like that when I was your age). We have over half a million readers in the United States, and over 625,000 different ebook titles available for instant download.

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Using TechSoup Products or Resources for Security? Want a Free Microsoft Tablet?

Tech Soup

The Challenge is open to all nonprofits in the United States of America who have used TechSoup’s donated products or educational resources in the past. (a) Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial. If this box is not checked, submission will NOT be accepted. Eligibility. a) Non-Discrimination. a) In General.

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Success Stories — the Fine Print

Tech Soup

The Challenge is open to all nonprofits in the United States of America who have used TechSoup's donated products or educational resources in the past. (a) Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial. Eligibility. a) Non-Discrimination. This Challenge is void in the U.S. Submission Restrictions. (a) a) In General.

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