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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. UNESCO views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S.,

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A copyright exception allows specialist organizations (generally a government agency or disability NGO or library) to make an accessible version of a published book without having to get permission from the author or publisher. It includes pressuring national governments to enforce existing accessibility laws.

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The Huddle Perpetual License

Tech Soup

Huddle is offering its online service to charities and libraries at a one-time admin fee, and a very reasonable one at that. According to our 2012 NGO Global Cloud Survey , collaboration is already one of the top ten current uses for cloud-based software among charities. I used it to project manage our recent global NGO cloud survey.

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S.,

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A View of the Cloud from India

Tech Soup

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Pooja Jayna is NASSCOM Foundation's manager of communications. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. That’s the group the Skoll Foundation wants to invest in: social entrepreneurs driving large-scale change. The authors present a two-by-two matrix.

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What is your “Individual Social Responsibility (ISR)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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