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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure. They were holding an international meeting of blindness groups around the campaign to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty in London during the days before the Geneva meeting. I decided to follow through and attend.

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Print Access for All: Anna Reid in Chennai

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer. This summer I interned with an organization called Benetech , a U.S.-based I am now pursuing these questions through a study of disability issues in the United States and India. www.bookshare.org.

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Four Resources Nonprofits Should Check Out

Care2

Mobilisation Lab: Started by the digital strategy team at Greenpeace International, the Digital Mobilisation Lab is comprised of a growing global network of staff and volunteers dedicated to people-powered campaigning. Cost structures are different and often text messaging is cheap while calls are expensive.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

However, the 5 percent given to international causes reflected a 15.3 increase in giving to international causes, which suggests that Americans are being particularly generous to overseas causes in a time of economic hardship for many countries.” billion), India ($12.0 percent increase over the prior year. in overall U.S.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers and am now an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Afraid of the Office? Top 3 Keys To Make Your Association a Kick-ass Place to Work According to History

Association TV

In the mid-19th Century, the East India Company needed a physical space to store their piles and piles of ledgers, forms and other important artifacts that managed their transactions all over the world. One disgruntled employee even diarized his distaste for the East India Company when it did away with the “yearly turtle feast.”

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Afraid of the Office? Top 3 Keys To Make Your Association a Kick-ass Place to Work According to History

Association TV

Correction error: In the podcast, I suggest the East India Company first moved into their office in Britain in the 19th Century, when it was in fact the 18th Century. One disgruntled employee even diarized his distaste for the East India Company when it did away with the “yearly turtle feast.”

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