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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. At the close of 2012, we are five years into our work in education and are serving over 230,000 students.

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How To Write A Great Donation Receipt For Your Nonprofit

CauseVox

When writing an automatic donation receipt for a 501c3 organization, you should include: Personalization using merge tags, which automatically pull a donor’s name, organization info, and transaction info into the receipt. Here’s your contribution info: {{transaction_info}}. A sincere thank you to your donor.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. Share summer meal site info via text or email.

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Raspberry Pi for Educators

Tech Soup

For educational nonprofits, schools, and libraries, Raspberry Pi is very useful for teaching students about electronics, computing, and many other technical subjects for a price that's far less than a new computer. Libraries have also experimented with replacing terminals with smaller footprint Raspberry Pi computers.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. Find my profile of Jason here including his list of NPTech heroes and where he gets his info. Find out more on this new service here. Remembering Michael DeLong.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. at 9:58 am Thanks, much, for that info, Mike. I promise (!)

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. at 9:58 am Thanks, much, for that info, Mike. I promise (!)