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Microsoft Citizenship Donating Office 365 To Nonprofits

TechImpact

Thanks to Microsoft''s Technology For Good Program , nonprofits are able to get the latest software and tech tools as a donation from Microsoft, empowering nonprofits and foundations to keep their attention and budget focused on their mission or cause. Other Nonprofit Technology Resources: Office 365 For Nonprofits - A Primer (Free Ebook).

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Robin Seaman, Agent of Inclusion

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. You can take an ebook, push a button and make it Braille. This results in an ebook, which can be shared by Bookshare legally with many thousands of other disabled readers.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. " A 2011 university study similarly found that 62 percent of homeless teens had a phone and data plan and that they considered the device as important for them as food.

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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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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. Before this initiative, critical illustrations in math and science books could only be studied by those reading traditional texts.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It gave us the opportunity to conduct for the first time a sizeable outreach campaign in education, provided us with informative user feedback and case studies, and supported the development of Bookshare’s initial K-12 collection. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field. government and states like Texas.

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Get Results When You Put Yourself in Your Donors’ Shoes

Connection Cafe

The result is relevant innovations and improvements that include people-focused and technology-focused solutions. Get more details about Knowledge Network’s journey mapping experience and read case studies from other nonprofit organizations. You might realize the journey is a little slicker than you thought. Real-World Results.

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