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Understanding Impact Metrics for Your Nonprofit: A Guide

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In this sense, impact metrics are the specific measures of the positive and negative effects of an intervention, action, or project on individuals, communities, or the environment. For example, an output metric for a literacy program might be the number of books read by program participants. Why Are Impact Metrics Important?

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

By announcing this in many press interviews, I've managed to create lots of external pressure on myself to get this done! Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. I like CastingWords overall. Britt Bravo: Hi!

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Solutionary Women: Viet-Ly Nguyen

Have Fun - Do Good

This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter. Streetside Stories is a San Francisco based arts education nonprofit that actually just started a blog , so give them a little link love!

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The program guides environmental project managers through a series of step-by-step interview wizards similar to the popular TurboTax program. During our recent campaign to recruit new team members, Benetech has attracted qualified candidates by offering more than just good pay and a pleasant work environment.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! After her interview with Barbara Walters, Jazz Jennings' rise has been nothing short of meteoric. Do you love ladies in literature?

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