Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

For many years, people frequently suggested that Benetech , the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead, get more involved in Washington, DC policy and legislative action. Benetech was founded to be a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit dedicated to creating social change at scale. I was wrong.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

For the entire month of October, TechSoup and our donor partners will be participating in National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (also known as NCSAM). Celebrated every October, NCSAM is a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure all Americans have the resources they need to stay safer and more secure online.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

On June 1, programmers, activists, and civic leaders participated in the first ever National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) across 83 U.S. Leonard Library. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries. We would like to see a global norm comparable to the system that has worked so well in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Photo from San Jose Library. This week (April 18th to 25th) is National Volunteer Week in the US. The week is a signature event created by the Points of Light Institute , to celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things to improve communities across the nation. Celebrate National Volunteer Week and go do something good.Ê

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. What’s in it; what does it mean; how does it affect Bookshare members? It doesn’t cover movies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We have an array of copyright exceptions that cover the activities of archives and libraries, especially fair use and the copyright exception that benefits people with disabilities. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. Every couple of decades, a new era ushers in a new set of ideas, principles and practices that affect how the nonprofit sector functions. Go big, or go home.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

As the nonprofit operator of Bookshare ,the world’s largest online library for people who are blind, visually impaired, dyslexic, or have a physical disability that prevents them from reading books, Benetech strongly recommends the ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty. It is politically popular.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Cynthia Adams, CEO of TechSoup donor partner GrantStation , recently did an important online training webinar on how rural charities and libraries can get grants. If your charity or library happens to be located in rural America, it's not your imagination that it is harder to get grant funding in rural locations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support. under a terrific exception to copyright that makes it possible for a nonprofit like ours to simply provide accessible books to people with disabilities. For example, we run Bookshare in the U.S. For what am I advocating?

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2014

Libraries, nonprofits, and faith-based organizations can help fight youth hunger by sharing information about local free summer meal sites. Only one in six children who are eligible for the National School Lunch Program take advantage of the Summer Food Service Program. Please bring your ideas, experiences, and questions.

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MAY 6, 2021

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. .

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Nonprofit organizations are often pressed to do more with less. Actually, 18% of nonprofits cite having a small staff (or staff transitions) as the greatest challenge they encounter. . Leverage nonprofit-specific development resources. . Explore these four best practices when creating great professional development programs: .

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. " The Role of Libraries. Additionally, 30 million library users reported going to the library for employment-related activities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. Our goal is to revolutionize the effectiveness of local governments in responding to climate change and other environmental impacts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!) Government delegation, as a next step possibility. I would class this as TVI (nearly identical) plus additional provisions creating a similar exception for schools, libraries and archives.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. students) with a collection of 220,000+ (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest library of its kind.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2020

My public policy colleagues at Independent Sector and National Council of Nonprofits have crafted summaries of this bill and I have included links to their summaries here: National Council of Nonprofits and Independent Sector. National Domestic Violence Hotline – $2 Million. Child Welfare Services – $25 Million.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

digital inclusion, is certainly one of the leading nonprofit PC refurbishers. PCs for People is a large nonprofit refurbishment program headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Going National. The goal is to receive relatively recent vintage, retired commercial IT equipment from companies and government agencies in Minnesota.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

A version of this post originally appeared on the TechSoup for Libraries blog. This raises some interesting questions for how nonprofits and libraries talk about the digital divide and how they advocate for public access technology and technology skills development. What About Nonprofits and Libraries?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

What is it like for a nonprofit to have a successful, lasting partnership with a private philanthropic foundation? Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset.

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JUNE 24, 2021

In this interview, Stevenson shares his thoughts on how we seek to reconcile as a nation, how he personally handled prejudice and racism, his path to his true calling, and how he finds the strength everyday to keep on fighting. When we built our National Memorial to the victims of lynching, we couldn’t do that.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Federal Communications Commission in 2011 and is now its own nonprofit organization. It is part of an ongoing national effort to bridge the digital divide in the United States. Commerce Department report, A Nation Online , we know the reality is very different. The project just had it's national launch fairly recently.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This year the award went to Nancy Jo Craig who runs the nonprofit Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council (CACRC) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A short time after she took over a small troubled computer refurbishment nonprofit - hurricane Katrina hit. Their volunteers already do trainings in the libraries. The Inundation.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

The National Digital Inclusion Alliance. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) is a new U.S. nonprofit organizing effort advocating for U.S. federal government action toward broadband adoption , like the proposed Lifeline broadband expansion. Every Public Library in the United States. A Human Right.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

TechHire spans the corporate, nonprofit, government, and educational sectors and has the ambitious goal to "give Americans the opportunity they deserve, and the skills they need to be competitive in a global economy." Volunteer as a mentor, instructor, or support for a nonprofit (such as Year Up!)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

TechSoup recently updated its disaster planning and recovery guide, The Resilient Organization , to include the new ways nonprofits, charities, and public libraries are using technology. Government Agency Apps. Apps Made by Nonprofits. Apps by TechSoup Donation Partners.

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MAY 5, 2010

Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the barrier to entry for all citizens in government decisions. The unconference was about connecting government managers and staff, public engagement experts, online tool developers, and citizens to encourage shared insights, decisions, and actions in government.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2010

This post originally appeared on TechSoup for Libraries. Some would argue that promoting broadband should not be something with which the government should be heavily involved. Those of us working in the nonprofit and library sectors understand the profound effect of broadband and affordable access to underserved populations.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

We have a special contest give-away in store at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference: a free year-long subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud. Eligible Sweepstakes posts must made by Nonprofit Technology Conference ("17 NTC") attendees in Washington, DC. Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This is the fourth and final installment in a series of grantseeking pointers inspired by fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding ’s great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries that came out a few years ago. Big Book of Library Grant Money. American Library Association. Information Today. Search Tips.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn is a major gift fundraiser and nonprofit communications expert who uses technology to amplify her impact and do more with less. Carolyn has many years of hands-on experience working in the trenches of nonprofit fundraising across Texas and beyond. News & World Report’s Best Nonprofit Management Programs blog.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

You work in a nonprofit. I challenge anyone to try to get through the INS process in one hour, the time limit many public libraries put on Internet use.). Other government programs are following the lead of the INS and providing some services or information only via the Internet. Sheldon Mains.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? These events bring together app developers with people from the nonprofit world to present new ideas and improve on social good projects already in use. Apps for Improving Access.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's one of the great untold stories of nonprofit enterprise. That's where nonprofit computer refurbishers come in. There is a surprising number of nonprofit computer refurbishers in North America that now supply accessible technology equipped computers, and lately iPads and iPods to disabled people at no or low cost.

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