Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

But some general knowledge about financial literacy will bode well. Take advantage of National Literacy Month. One way to do this is to distribute a financial glossary to explain terms like audits, liquidity, unrestricted net assets, internal controls, operating reserve , and risk assessment and liability.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

27: International Polar Bear Day — #PolarBearDay. 8: International Women’s Day — #IWD19. 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination — #EndRacism. 21: International Day of Forests — #ForestsDay. 8: International Women’s Day — #IWD19.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

International development and relief – 6%. Education and literacy – 5%. 14) 96% regularly vote in local and national elections and 37% donate to political campaigns. Faith and spirituality – 8%. Human and social services – 8%. Environment and conservation – 7%. Women and girls – 4%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

27: International Polar Bear Day — #PolarBearDay. 8: International Women’s Day — #WomensDay. 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination — #EndRacism. 21: International Day of Forests — #ForestsDay. 8: International Women’s Day — #WomensDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2013

8: International Women’s Day — #IntWomensDay or #IWD. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 1: International Workers’ Day — #IntWorkersDay , #MayDay or #LaborDay. September.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

March: 8: International Women’s Day || #IntWomensDay or #IWD2013. 14: International Day of Action for Rivers. 12: International Day for Street Children. 12: International Day for Street Children. May: 1: International Workers’ Day || #IntWorkersDay , #MayDay or #LaborDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

8: International Women’s Day — #MakeItHappen and #WomensDay. 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination — #EndRacism. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 1: International Workers’ Day — #LaborDay and #LabourDay. September.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

These events can help educate participants about the Latino community’s role in shaping the nation. This could range from financial literacy workshops to mentoring programs. Internal Celebrations: Internal initiatives can be just as impactful for larger nonprofits. These narratives can inspire and educate.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . International Game Technology. They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

You see, several months later, the federal Department of Education challenged us to compete against a well-respected national nonprofit 60 times our size in a bid to provide accessible educational materials for US students who are blind, dyslexic, or otherwise print disabled. I was wrong. million contract to do just that.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It’s being re-published today in honor of International Day of the Girl to highlight Malala Fund’s important work around education for girls. Now with Nigeria’s nation-wide school closures, Kiki is working with teachers to produce education radio programs to ensure students without access to online learning can attend class at home.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. and James L. Route 66 pairs this reading content with teaching tools and learning exercises, effectively empowering any literate person to become an early reading instructor.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Cause Camp, presented by Nonprofit Hub and Do More Good , has been nationally recognized by Forbes as a “must-attend” for the nonprofit sector. She has spent almost thirty years working in the nonprofit world helping organizations communicate more effectively internally and externally. Being a nonprofit professional isn’t easy.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. National LGBTQ Task Force / Detroit, MI / $500. Fundraising & Grants.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. Nation’s Report Card, National Assessment of Educational Progress Long Term Trends. History Assessments, designing and building interactive reports to explore NAEP data at the national, state, and district levels.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

International Paper Foundation. International Paper Foundation. International Paper Foundation (IP) makes sustainable investments to “protect and improve the lives of our employees and mobilize our people, products, and resources to address critical needs in the communities where we live and work.” Funding Priority: Education.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting. I decided to follow through and attend.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

I was an expert witness for the National Federation of the Blind (which had joined HathiTrust as a defendant) in the district court case, and Benetech filed an amicus brief in the HathiTrust appeal case supporting the decision of the district court. copyright law, also known as the Chafee Amendment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Adam Sugalski , CircusProtest.com @CircusProtest Adela Raffa , Women in AWE, Bread for the Journey, Atlanta @BFJ_Intl Carolyn Mullin , National Museum of Animals and Society Oral History Project @AnimalMuseum Chloe Falkenheim , Youth Vegetarian Alliance Dana Mahon , Child’s Pose Yoga Elizabeth Rider , International Charter for Human Values in Healthcare (..)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It wasn’t until 1993, when a reconstruction of these events by American journalist Mark Danner first appeared in The New Yorker , that the full story of the El Mozote massacre was brought to light and sent shock waves through the international community. Dave suggested we rename our idea Martus, the Greek word for “witness.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment. Route 66 Literacy Our newest project is Route 66 Literacy, and it includes a demonstration site that anyone can try out.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Influential women’s panel for International Women’s Day Celebrate International Women’s Day by organizing a panel discussion featuring influential women from your community that other women can purchase tickets to attend. Reading challenge Issue a community-wide reading challenge this spring to encourage literacy in your community.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared. Is Open Data Just A Flash in the Pan Movement?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

What about literacy and education? National governments should encourage the creation of enterprises with explicitly social objectives. What about a life-saving drug that poor countries can't afford? What about access to knowledge about how to prevent your child from dying from a preventable illness?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

This was originally posted on the GuideStar International Blog. International Economic and Policy Stakeholders Recognize the Internet’s Increasing Role. Most civil society organizations (CSOs) and citizens don’t use high-level jargon such as Internet governance and ICT policy.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

data literacy, device preferences)? Example : Alliance for Justice , a national association of over 120 organizations representing a broad array of groups committed to progressive values, uses a dropdown menu. Defining your needs and identifying past areas of success or opportunity provide a clearer direction to move forward.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

How to get in sync across international teams. Collaborative Conversations have been convened in client companies such as Genentech, NASA, The National Park Service at Yosemite, UCSC, and The Center for Interfaith Relations. Ken is currently working as the Worldview Literacy Project Manager at The Institute of Noetic Sciences.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The marriage of refurbishment and accessible technology started in the early 1980s with the founding of the National Cristina Foundation. The software applications WordQ + SpeakQ provide writing assistance and speech recognition help for people with disabilities, new language learners, and those who are learning literacy.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec has made corporate grants to the National Center for Women & Information Technology and Vital Voices. Over the next three years, Symantec is investing $900,000 in Room to Read , an international nonprofit dedicated to promoting literacy and gender equality in the developing world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

This is one we use a ton internally and don’t question nearly enough. When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” More often than not, people who are described as “illiterate” likely have a low level of literacy. Brainstorm. Illiterate. Stakeholder.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This is an international trend. I'm thrilled at the forward motion groups like the National Digital Inclusion Alliance and others have supported this year and think that 2016 is looking like a momentous time when it comes to policy change. The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 10, 2007

You can lose weight and bolster literacy at the same time!)" JilBean will be blogging for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society , Greater Connecticut Chapter. Lone Prairie will be blogging for the Joni and Friends International Disability Center. As of July 8th she had already raised $297 in pledges towards her $900 goal.

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