sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

Take philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, whose donations have yielded more than $14 billion in funding for about 1,600 nonprofits since 2019, according to her long-awaited website Yield Giving. The movement espouses six key practices of TB grantmaking : Give Multi-Year, Unrestricted Funding : The work of nonprofits is long-term and unpredictable.

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Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

This can lead to funding shortages: A 2021 study by Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy found that AANHPI communities receive just 20 cents of every $100 awarded by foundations. In 2022, CASL secured $1 million in federal funding to expand the program to serve more seniors.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Becoming a customer can help these businesses stay open and serve their communities’ needs, whatever they may be. These nonprofits rely on funds from generous donors to keep their work going and to provide support to the Black community. Check out a list of nonprofits you can support below to jumpstart your giving.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Don’t be afraid to reach out to event sponsors, grant funders and major donors to see if they’d be willing to work with you on how unspent funds are allocated, such as event table sponsorships. If fundraising via events, instead find creative ways to continue to raise funds virtually.”. “We don’t wait for the crisis to be over.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. and James L. Knight Foundation, our SocialCoding4Good initiative will kick off later this year. This is a huge legal victory! with the books they need for educational success.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation. To do so, we definitely need your help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading. For veterans with visual impairments, traumatic brain injuries or other disabilities, reading standard print is difficult, if not impossible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

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. I invite you to join us as we open new frontiers at the intersection of technology and social change.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. An intellectual property manual done from the standpoint of an organization that is dedicated to openness, rather than proprietary approaches. What’s next?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Of course, accessibility is right up Benetech’s alley and the focus of our Literacy program. Bookshare is dramatically exceeding its five-year collection and member targets at the close of the fourth year of our Bookshare for Education (B4E) project funded by the U.S. This innovative approach is now opening up completely new horizons.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Through this three-year project—made possible with support from the Lavelle Fund for the Blind as well as India’s adoption of a new copyright exception for people with print disabilities —we will pilot Bookshare International at scale in India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! We’re also expanding our efforts to help more people in the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Benetech has a record of success in securing funding, creating partnerships, and delivering products and services that are useful tools for the social sector. 4 We prefer open to proprietary (internal and external). Benetech seeks to be open internally and externally. 2 We get stuff done. Benetech works in partnerships.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Her experience includes 8+ years of Marketing, Communication, and Program Management for organizations working on issues such as poverty, financial literacy, voter engagement, health research, and the public arts. Registration is open now ! Cierra believes effective internal communications are essential to nonprofit success.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 2, 2011

One of the results of my creating a Generosity Plan was that I remembered how much I care about public education, literacy education, and arts education. No funding for a librarian? Open my eyes. Who is making big, innovative, creative, positive changes in public education, literacy education, and arts education?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

If you send an email with a boring subject line , it probably won’t even get opened. Subject lines with questions have higher open rates. An opening sentence that hooks the reader. Check out this video for tips on writing the best opening sentence you can. You could go with, Do you know you are a hero? It’s just too dull.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In this guide to virtual fundraising, we discuss a variety of events that your team can execute directly on Facebook with little hassle such as: Facebook challenges , such as a “Meatless Monday” challenge in which supporters eat vegetarian one day a week for a month, and raise funds in support of their efforts. Supporter groups.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

In fact, funding for digital initiatives increased more than anything else—more than increases in costs, numbers of people in technology roles, and numbers of customers. . Google Analytics can help you learn what donors care about via the web pages they land on, articles they open, and links they click.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As partnership openings arise, you’ll be set up to respond quickly if those relationships already exist. Boston University provides in-kind space to host professional development forums, EVERFI supplies financial literacy coursework, and Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment adds expertise in the youth development space.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

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. It’s that global vision that brings us into partnership with the Internet Archive around their larger Open Library dream. And, the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question. I was aghast that it could take a dozen years for the world to believe the massacre had happened.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We’re open, but a lot of the volunteers just have not returned yet.”. In the spring and summer of 2021, with funding from AmeriCorps, our research team held focus groups with volunteer administrators about their technology use in the pandemic. But now we are limping along. Who are these people we talked with?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2016

You can also convey practical how-to information or tips pertaining to your nonprofit via your newsletter (3 Ways to Save Water, How to Start Your Own Social Good Meetup, 5 Ways to Support Early Literacy, and so forth). And if you dare open the email, the sad story continues with a plea at the end to donate or sign a petition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2006

The session was called "Funding Technology Projects" and was moderated by Jeff Forster. Technology literacy is important and in order gain literacy you need get people to put fingers to keyboard. That's why Open Source is a good way to go - you don't get locked in. Business for Open source a.)

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Dining for Women Mission: "Dining for Women empowers women living in extreme poverty by funding programs fostering good health, education, and economic self-sufficiency and cultivates educational dinner circles inspiring individuals to make a difference through the power of collective giving." Mission: "Spot.Us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Talked about the openness to games and the need for research. Funded the infrastructure, and less well on content. How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? Emphasis is on digital literacy. Grantees - like Global Kids - found the right group to fund. There is more open dialog.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Take a peek into the hotbed of open prototyping, game jams, and mobile media experiements, then consider how schools might start to build social change into games studies curriculum. Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Gaming is literacy. Dance Game - step on the correct arrow on the beat. That's where dancing takes place.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 6, 2004

We have been pursuing this dream for over fifteen years, first with our affordable Arkenstone Open Book reading machines, and for the last two years with Bookshare.org. Bookshare.org also gets many books from other active volunteers who share our passion for independent literacy, as well as directly from publishers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

I also had a web browser window open so I could watch the videocast of event. The MacArthur Foundation announced that it will be funding a five-year $50 million initiative, mostly for research, to try to understand how young people are using digital media and its impact learning. local time). It isn't entertainment.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Auctions Auctions are a major source of funding for a lot of nonprofit associations because they engage the competitive spirits of supporters. Of course, they’re also challenging to manage as you’re handling the donations of items on one end and funds on the other. Organizations can gain funds through entry fees and individual pledges.

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

For example, if you ran a literacy organization and you had a blog post about how one of your former beneficiaries just became the poet laureate for a nearby city, that would be an excellent candidate. For example, you could include a section on your annual fund and how close you are to reaching it, with a thermometer showing your progress.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism. Our office in Rwanda was supposed to be our next office opening anytime now, but because of the war in the Congo, visas and business licenses and things like that have been put on hold.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

This can show you who might be most interested in attending and contributing to your auction or open to expanding their overall support, such as by becoming a monthly donor. Let’s say your nonprofit focuses on promoting literacy and discovers that many of your donors are older teachers and parents in your community. Giving habits.

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