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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. He would play me a 90’s punk song, and I’d download Pat Benatar (saying, I had music like that when I was your age).

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 15th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Jan 24 - 25. Mar 8 - 17.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Although legal and regulatory requirements stipulate that schools must provide accessible ‘equivalent’ resources for students with disabilities, in practice the majority of these students do not have equal access to textbooks and other instructional materials that make up the primary resources of the general curriculum.

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Should My Nonprofit Use AI? Ultimate AI FAQ for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Seriously though, why does “perplexity” in AI text matter?

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Virtual Board Meetings: The Quick Guide for Nonprofits

Top Nonprofits

Improved nonprofit governance. Empower your board leadership to exercise effective governance and maintain more control over meetings. From governing documents to financial reports, your board handles and produces an incredible amount of documents. Jeb is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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How to Get Donations: Try These 20+ Tips!

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Users create and share short videos overlaid with music and audio. Try using TikTok to get your cause out in the world by having a staff member explain your cause in a short video and choosing music that aligns with your message. Grants are large donations provided to nonprofits from foundations, corporations, or government agencies.

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Should You Accept ANY Type of Nonprofit Donation? (And How Should You Gracefully Decline a Gift?)

Get Fully Funded

But from time to time, a donor will offer you something else: stock, bonds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), cryptocurrency, an acre of undeveloped land, a house, a boat, a car, a painting, a sculpture, a rare book, a musical instrument, or something else that makes you scratch your head. Your CRM platform has instructions on how to do this.

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