Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

My reaction was that this kind of advocacy work was a luxury we couldn’t afford. We were elated and eager to get to work. Bookshare today is part of a broader effort by Benetech’s Global Literacy Program to improve the lives and learning of students with the biggest challenges. I was wrong. million contract to do just that.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. 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. and James L. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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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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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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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

The Communicator Awards honor excellence in innovation and creative work in marketing and communications. National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. We worked with the Urban Institute to redesign the Education Data Explorer improving their front end interface and workflow for data updates.

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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. As always, I’m delighted to share the latest Benetech highlights as we work on these ambitious 10X dreams! Bookshare is helping Kevin— who had suffered a brain injury—to keep up with his school work.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Grant research tip : As you look over the list and peruse potential funders, take notes of those who best align with your work. International Paper Foundation. They currently partner with 48 local organizations in 17 countries that work to secure equal educational access and high-quality education for all children. The Andrew W.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2024

Work closely with your development team to determine which strategies will resonate with the donor. Continue sending tailored messages to keep the donor engaged in your work. For example, when your humane society digs into a donor’s past philanthropic involvement, you might find that they help fund a vet clinic in a developing nation.

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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. WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

I’m excited to share highlights from our work and its significance for the multitudes we serve. students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. We called this idea Bookshare , which is now Benetech’s largest Global Literacy initiative. of America v.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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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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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Work with local clothing boutiques and designers to create runway looks and sell tickets for your community to get a look at upcoming items. You can work with your local nurseries and local parks to provide a place for the trees to be planted. Offer saplings that are indigenous to your area for your supporters to purchase for planting.

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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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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

My proposal is that the world's knowledge should work for all of humanity. And it seems to work pretty well for stimulating creativity. What about literacy and education? National governments should encourage the creation of enterprises with explicitly social objectives. Regulation is helpful, but not enough.

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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. The next challenge we’re working on is to bring this incredible library to the rest of the world.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

How to work together effectively. How to get in sync across international teams. How to create harmony around different cultural approaches to work. 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.

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

This was originally posted on the GuideStar International Blog. The Internet, and technology as a whole, is so intertwined with day-to-day life that the decisions made by governments and corporations directly impact how we use the Internet and how CSOs work — now and in the future.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

data literacy, device preferences)? You’re working with a smaller site. 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. Our Work) that tells them the differences between the second-level items.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

As I've explored this field over the years one of the many surprising things about it I've discovered is the work that computer refurbishers have quietly been doing. The marriage of refurbishment and accessible technology started in the early 1980s with the founding of the National Cristina Foundation.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As a company, they works to have a positive impact on the local communities around the world where it has offices. Many of us have worked at companies that offer a small form of gift matching, but Symantec's efforts to promote volunteerism push that to an even higher tier.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

Unfortunately, people decided this phrase had a nice ring to it, and now its use runs rampant as a broad, informal reference to any group of people who are physically present in any place doing any work to achieve something. This is one we use a ton internally and don’t question nearly enough. Brainstorm. Illiterate. Stakeholder.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. This is an international trend. "There are many groups, locally and nationally, making real impact around digital skills and access to devices. Privacy and Security. Another is surveys.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

She also won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Reporting for her article, " Dying in Darfur ," in The New Yorker. On the opposite days, we work for a non-profit related to our study. So I will intern at the Loft , prolly with young writers or spoken word. See how theory actually works. Engage in the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Read on to learn how the World Food Program USA, Partners in Health, and The Mission Continues have customized one story for different platforms so they can reach more people with their impactful work. WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. World Food Program USA: Rani’s Story.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2022

Organized by the International Awards Associate (IAA) , a group of industry innovators, creators, designers, and communications professionals deeply committed to recognizing and honoring the outstanding performance, talent, and effort of the best digital and creative professionals around the world. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. The end of a conference is often a time of great enthusiasm quickly followed by a gaping maw of inability to act on that enthusiasm back at work. There are some ideas that will never fly where you work. It’s nice to have both. That’s fine.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

To this day, it is still considered one of the finest works in the history of Japanese literature. Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga (under her literary pseudonym Gabriela Mistral) was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature for her poetic work, Sonnets of Death. Gabriela Mistral. Do you love ladies in literature?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

We place ourselves in the social justice work here in the Bay Area as a training center. We work with a lot of young organizers as well as elder organizers, and we have about seven different programs to speak to that fusion. We definitely promote an organizing orientation to education work. I feel like I was really born into it.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

This foundation supports smaller, grassroots organizations in the New York region that work to improve the lives of girls and women. Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education. The Moriah Fund.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This foundation supports smaller, grassroots organizations in the New York region that work to improve the lives of girls and women. Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education. The Moriah Fund.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

one of my favorite things about our guests is she’s been in her shoes, right, she’s been an ED, she’s been not just a consultant but also has worked for and with nonprofits directly, which is great, over two decades. We have been working together for over 20 years, and love traveling across the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

A crisp brand meaning should be the filter for decision making internally as well as externally, especially regarding the building of community around the organization’s cause, partnerships, communications and revenue generation. In 2010, SAF’s “Drill Down for Safety” project mobilized nearly 800,000 people with national texting drills!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Last summer I talked about our great summer interns and fellows and early this year, I sent a copy of our 20th Anniversary Report that talked about our entire history. Human Rights Program – Changing the Field of Human Rights Making the truth matter is the core theme of our human rights work.

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