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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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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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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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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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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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Need Answers: LinkedIn Has Them

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Much of the “good” done throughout history has been financed by what one could call “repentant sinners,” such as Carnegie with his libraries, funded by the exploitation of labor in the days of the robber barons. How LinkedIn Can Improve Nonprofit Governance. Komen for the Cure is a perfect example of this conundrum.

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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. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness. Only a handful of the bigger and established NGOs have adopted cloud technologies.

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