Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Transforming the Future Through Technology. Future goals include looking at how technology can help improve its CRM capabilities and build stronger relationships with both supporters and customers on the enterprise side of the organisation. Senior Product Marketing Manager at Salesforce.org. About the Author. Susan Mahon.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

We all live in a world filled with technology, which can prove to be a help and hinderance to our work and personal lives. Furthermore, for those of us in the nonprofit world who rely on technology every day to do our jobs, the efficiencies gained by this technology can make a significant impact in the funds we deliver to improve social good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

“As organizations,” Osborne said, “we must liberate spending to focus on the promotion, learning and innovation around braille,” and recognize that we ought to embrace today’s changing economics and technology so that braille can be part of an equation which delivers access to information for all, not just to those who can afford it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 10, 2021

While you’re there, you can see AMS product demos and ask questions directly to the product vendors. What do product upgrades look like for this solution? This approach ensures your organization is keeping up with the latest technological advances without budget-busting fees and broken customizations. Email me the guide.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. The initial part of the project was to do a detailed survey of existing assistive technology products, to get a baseline for current support for accessible graphics.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

It is nonprofit technology for use cases like constituent management, fundraising, marketing and communications, and program management. Specifically: Your major gift officers can drive productivity on a modern mobile platform with instant analytics and income forecasting. Get a 360-Degree View of Constituents.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

When Calera’s board vetoed my idea of a new product: a reading machine for the blind, I was distraught. As the prototypical technology social enterprise, Benetech became one of the first organizations using technology to solve social problems rather than seeking to make maximum financial returns.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

She also said that they learn about new technology mostly by word of mouth throughout their church network. Church Technology Listservs. particularly interesting like her piece 4 Technology Options that Might Kill the Church Bulletin. Lauren Hunter has written a series of free eBooks. ChurchTechToday.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

In my contribution to Ron’s book, I discuss the framework that guides us at Benetech, the technology nonprofit I lead. When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea. We are always exploring new projects with the hope of launching a new product each year.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

While our activities often creates jobs beyond the core high technology jobs around software development and user support, we don't see it as our core competency. Seeing the words being spoken aloud on a device really helped them visualize how blind and dyslexic students use the accessible text ebooks that they create.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. Today, Bookshare serves over 330,000 American students with a rapidly growing collection of hundreds of thousands of accessible ebooks. government and states like Texas.

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Bloomerang

JULY 9, 2021

Today’s technology makes it fairly easy to build a good financial dashboard. Download our Do’s and Don’ts of Getting Boards to Fundraise eBook to review why your board isn’t fundraising, and how to fix it this other form of nonprofit board engagement. The good news: A good dashboard isn’t rocket science.

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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.). We all want the same ebook that people without disabilities buy (sorry, I mean license) to work perfectly well for people who are blind, physically disabled or dyslexic.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

FT.com / Weekend columnists / Tim Harford – Perhaps microfinance isn’t such a big deal after all – "Last December, I showed some unwitting prescience by worrying about a backlash against microfinance, the practice of providing small loans – or perhaps savings products or insurance – to poor people.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Using the insights gained, RSPCA is also looking at where else it can embrace technology to create other efficiencies and further improve processes and transparency. Download the Trailblazer Celebration eBook to learn more about how RSPCA has achieved better outcomes for staff and animals. About the Author. Susan Mahon.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 24, 2022

It’s the best way to learn about new products and services and how they will work for your organization. Engaging Audiences using Mobile Friendly Technology. The session focused on best practices to help attendees understand how they can use technology to grow their donor base and increase engagement with their supporters.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

With technology, you can do incredible things, but with a galvanized community of supporters who work together toward a greater good, we can do anything. By partnering with all these stakeholders, we reinvented the traditional library for people with print disabilities and brought modern ebook technology to this underserved community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, it's a dream that the commercial ebook vendors keep dashing. The Kindle2's text-to-speech feature wasn't something that actually worked for blind people, but you could imagine how a software update could make this into an incredible product. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. This irony continues: it’s a terrible shame that Amazon (and other ebook device vendors) keeps putting out ebook products that are inaccessible to the blind! years ago entitled the Soundproof Book.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Not only do they produce Braille in quantity, but the Press is also developing affordable technology for blind people such as screenreaders and talking ebook players. For high volume production, special metal plates are made. The products the Press designed were pretty impressive.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Download the Trailblazer Celebration eBook to learn more about how Oranje Fonds is using Salesforce to engage their community and drive action. Senior Product Marketing Manager at Salesforce.org. Susan Mahon is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Salesforce.org, a social impact centre at Salesforce. About the Author.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Check out this O'Reilly's announcement tat their ebook bundles now include DAISY talking book format files to see the fabulous work they're doing. Making these files available as part of the mass market product, O'Reilly is ensuring that EVERYONE who can benefit from accessible materials can actually get them. Why is this a big deal?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

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. With the advances in publishing and technology, it is now within reach to ensure equal access to books for all.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Amazon.com: Kindle This is the first ebook product that gives me a vision of where the book is going to go. And, while not perfect, it gives a vision of where this technology will go. Of course, this is a tech product, and I expect the price of the device to steadily fall over time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A great (bad) example is Adobe, one of the leading ebook technology vendors, who just introduced their Digital Editions. Unfortunately, although accessibility was in the prior Adobe product, the Digital Rights Management (DRM) of Digital Editions locks out print disabled people.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 6, 2014

If we got rid of IT we might have to talk to the person next to us on the train and we would not have our overpriced Apple product helping us look cool at the coffee shop. Smart phones give us a way to communicate and be productive with our nonprofit good deeds 24/7. There is also a free eBook on Office365 on the same site.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Technological Protection Measures. It should both promote the domestic production of accessible materials in each country, as well as provide access to books produced elsewhere. These are the digital locks that make it hard to copy digital content.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

A virtual event is only as good as the technology that supports it. Provide an eBook or some sort of content that is relevant to the topics discussed during networking sessions, for example. . By following the suggestions laid out above, you can meet this networking need without having to sacrifice value and productivity.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 18, 2020

Big businesses often produce much more waste, and as they often sell internationally, the products will have travelled a long way (so have a higher carbon footprint), and the production line may not be ethical (or easy to trace). Try to avoid selling/gifting plastic products, 6.3 Green Online Marketing .

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The schedule might also be online to save paper or to limit the number of shared products. . Some hybrid conferences require that attendees attend at least one session or presenter in order to reap some type of benefit (like a free eBook or the recorded content). Educate on the Live Chat Feature and Guidelines.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2020

Download the free eBook: “ A Unique Approach to Student Prospecting: 5 Ways to Build Your Brand as a Trusted Advisor” 3. So many campuses have discovered that admissions staff have been incredibly productive from home when given the right tools and resources. Remove Technology Concerns.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 10, 2017

Here you can direct fans to a product, service, your latest webinar or even an ebook. Tech Impact is a nonprofit whose mission is to empower communities and nonprofits to use technology to better serve our world. At Tech Impact, they believe technology can do amazing things. Tip 4: Add a Call to Action to Your Page.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

A virtual event is only as good as the technology that supports it. Provide an eBook or some sort of content that is relevant to the topics discussed during networking sessions, for example. . By following the suggestions laid out above, you can meet this networking need without having to sacrifice value and productivity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

For every employee, consider what enhancements are needed for safety, productivity and wellbeing.” -- David Grossman, Founder & CEO, The Grossman Group. For more advice on how to lead your organization through the pandemic, see Grossman’s new (free) ebook, 12 Tips for Employers to Navigate the Future World of Work.

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