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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources.

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Caravan Studios for the Win: ReImagine: Opportunity Winner!

Tech Soup

Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup Global, entered its app SafeNight into the ReImagine: Opportunity Challenge. Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. We think so. Non-traditional Groups, Innovative Ideas.

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6 Steps to Zeroing Out Child Labour Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

And even as these dire consequences are known, child labour has increased globally to 160 million. It also requires formalizing the informal economy and extending the coverage of labour law for protection to those who are the most vulnerable. 70% of all child labour takes place in the agriculture sector.

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Leading the Resistance: 28 Organizations You Can (and Should) Support Today

EveryAction

Southern Poverty Law Center. The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Lakota People's Law Project. National Immigration Law Center. Donate | Advocate | Twitter | Facebook. Donate | Stay Informed | Twitter | Facebook.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). Kipp’s idea was that we could take this paper-based rape reporting system and build it on top of our Martus secure human rights software platform.

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