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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. Please join us in realizing this “radical” future!

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16 Million 2-1-1 Calls in 2009

VisionLink

VisionLink''s Role VisionLink customers are among those providing 2-1-1 services, from New York to Washington state, from Florida to Maine, and here in our own state of Colorado--and for many regional and metropolitan systems in between. Requests for health and mental health services increased to 15% of all calls.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We are delivering more and more books that meet the literacy needs of our users, by providing the latest bestsellers, textbooks and daily newspapers into accessible form. Another great piece of news is that Janice Carter has joined Benetech as our Director of Literacy Programs, and is now general manager of Bookshare.org.

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Win a copy of Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World

Have Fun - Do Good

In 2006, USA Today named him one of the Top 20 College Academic All-Stars, and the Governor of Florida awarded Darius with a Points of Light Award for his community service. While in Florida, Darius created Books All Around, Inc. , a nonprofit organization that promotes youth literacy.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AFP Florida Caucus / St. Planet Philanthropy is the annual statewide conference presented by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Florida Caucus. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. Fundraising & Grants. Planet Philanthropy 2019. Jun 16 - 18.

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Free In-Person Events for Nonprofit Techies

Tech Soup

Naples, Florida: How to Prepare Your Organization and Your Network for #GivingTuesday. Toronto, Canada: Toronto Net Tuesday: Digital Literacy for Nonprofits. Mukono, Uganda: Improved Skills and Competencies for Productive Web Literacy in Mayuge. Tuesday, September 1, 2015. Wednesday, September 2, 2015. Monday, September 7, 2015.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

I think, not only in terms of digital literacy…but some people don’t have laptops with cameras, or they only kind of know how to use their smartphone, or maybe they don’t have access to the physical hardware at all to do some of this stuff. Meetings were interrupted by barking dogs and crying toddlers.