Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The holidays are coming soon and that means you need to be ready to make the most of it, starting with getting your nonprofit website spiffed up, donor friendly, and ready to receive donations. Here’s a list of 6 things you can do to get your nonprofit website ready for the holidays. That’s a problem. Spiff up your home page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As personal computers, smartphones, and the Internet of Things evolve, so must your nonprofit. This webinar was presented on December 19 to more than 1,900 nonprofit staff worldwide and focused on what’s new and next in online communications and fundraising to help nonprofits prepare for the future and embrace being an early adopter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2011

At about the time I quit working for the day (6pm in Missouri, USA), nonprofits in New Zealand, Australia, and Asia are coming online for another work day. Then, over the next 12 hours, on comes nonprofits in India, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

We’re already delivering services at scale in three other countries—Canada, the UK, and India. Free service with a “pay what you can” request (like Wikipedia’s) is a sustainable nonprofit model. The majority of donations stay local, sourcing content in local languages and creating jobs. This one does.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Unlike the.ORG domain which can be registered by any individual or brand (but mostly registered by nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits), the new.NGO and.ONG domains can only be registered by nonprofits, charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and ONGs (non-governmental organizations in a romance-based language ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Starting a monthly giving program is a great use of your time because monthly donors are the lifeblood of a small nonprofit – bringing in sustainable revenue and creating a safety net of loyal supporters. . Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. Penguin, he points out, is a growing power in China, India and Brazil, while Random House is pervasive across Spanish-speaking Latin America.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In fact, we’re doing so well in that respect that I get to engage more and more in new opportunities to advance our nonprofit mission—but less in writing my updates. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Very similar to the NTEN US Nonprofit Cloud Survey findings, we found that 90 percent of our 10,500 respondents worldwide told us they are already using some type of cloud technology and they plan to use more pretty quickly. to conduct our survey in 21 languages. What Didn't Surprise Me.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Canada, Europe and India. Bookshare now has hundreds of titles in Hindi, Tamil, and Spanish, and we recently announced a partnership with the government of Qatar to develop an Arabic language service. These include 6 of the top 10 publishers in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

It’s a nonprofit or government agency that makes accessible copies of Works, and limits distribution of those copies to people with bona fide disabilities, the “Beneficiary Persons,” defined in the next article. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. It doesn’t cover movies. Article 2(c). Defines Authorized Entity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The Bookshare Library Experience I am the CEO of Benetech, the nonprofit organization that provides the world’s largest online collection of accessible books, for people with disabilities that interfere with reading, through our Bookshare library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, “What the heck is a blog?,” ” Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was not only writing one, but evangelizing to nonprofit techies about social media (called Web 2.0 We heard that from Africa, India and Latin America.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

Thanks to a generous grant from the Lavelle Foundation, Bookshare has been able to work with Worth Trust, a nonprofit with offices in Chennai, India. For the employees English is not their first language and for some it was not the medium of instruction. I now feel even I can help people living in America!!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

By now many nonprofit organizations are aware of the importance of having a presence on the web. Malhan’s approach to developing accessibility is informed by his experience in a developing country, namely India, where advanced technologies, like smartphones, are not as readily available or affordable. Make It Accessible Early.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

He mentioned developments in the technology – like the $35 tablet in India – that are getting many more people who were left out connected. Irving also acknowledged that there was a lot more work to do to get nonprofits to adopt these new technologies. Getting from Collective Conversation to Impact.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

nonprofits often didn't know they were already using cloud services. We're not entirely sure whether this means that nonprofits are confused about cloud computing costs and security. We need solutions that address security concerns in language organizations can recognize. Low Cost and Free Cloud Tools for Nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

The treaty does a lot of things, but let me highlight a few: • A global norm that there be copyright exceptions that allow for the making of accessible versions of copyrighted works for free on a nonprofit basis by a broad range of people or organizations, without having to get permission from the rightsholders. Large print: the U.S.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

While usage varies by region, the range is relatively narrow, with a high of 93 percent in Australia/New Zealand and USA/Canada and a low of 83 percent in India. It also heralds a game change in nonprofit technology. People are familiar with it and using it, at a minimum, in a lightweight way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Fair Trade Language Tutoring Via WebCam. Community Technology Centres for Children And Young Adults in Low and Moderate Income Communities in Madurai India. Idealware Nonprofit Software Knowledge Sharing Initiative. Creative Commons suggests. Aspiration's Social Source Commons. Avatar Action Center. Farmer 2 Farmer Learning.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for seven years now. nonprofits, schools, low-income families, and small microenterprise businesses. We have served more than 10,300 nonprofits and libraries across all 50 U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. GuideStar does have Jumo International listed as a nonprofit organization but very little information is shown and likely won’t be until they file their first 990 with the IRS. She brings experience from working in and around the nonprofit sector.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

India drafted its first data privacy bill. This information must be presented to data subjects “in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language.” (Art. 2018 was a seminal year for privacy. Its executives were hauled before Congressional committees. Make it easy to read and understand.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Now more than ever, nonprofits need to share stories of how they’re making the world better. A number of nonprofits are already doing an incredible job of this—and you can easily follow their lead. The blog’s vibrant design and vivid language warmly invite readers into Rani’s narrative. Stories are windows into new worlds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. I'm still recovering. No wonder I am still tired!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So I’m a communication consultant, a communication strategist for nonprofits, mainly. I work mainly with nonprofits and social enterprises that want to have a bigger impact, that wants to increase their audiences, and that want to interact with diverse communities. I can see someone said that they work in India.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What is Jumo? Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 30th, 2010 Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. She brings experience from working in and around the nonprofit sector.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World is an international nonprofit organization and citizen journalism initiative. I learned to speak the language fluently, and was there at a really intense time in terms of the civil war, and a lot of the political uprisings that were going on. I have a story that you have to hear.'"

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Nonprofits should lead the sharing economy and demand more from the private sector. The Sharing Economy -- the use of networked, often mobile, information technology to share goods and services -- offers nonprofits new possibilities for innovation and efficiency along with new paradigms to move from scarcity to abundance.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

I’ve been working in nonprofit space for many, many years, a lot of years. ” And in that moment, I also thought, “Oh my God, all my nonprofit clients are completely terrified of criticism and overly dependent on praise.” We’re nonprofit. We’re a nonprofit. Maryanne: Thank you.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

I was born in India, in Bombay, and I have four brothers and sisters. His name is Pierre Le Roux and he has researched in that area for 25 years, speaks five languages, and has a very strong, more than a feeling, he has a very strong opinion that human trafficking can be stopped. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

As I was traveling to 12 countries to interview women artisans, a woman in India said, "Come back in the fall and we'll teach you how to dance the dances that we perform all night to honor the mother god, Durga." One is that women can apply for grants by writing a letter, one page, in their own language, in their own handwriting.

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