Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

For counseling situations, body language and tone are important in traditional therapy and support, but chatbots, which interact with text virtually, cannot (yet) observe or understand nonverbal communication. Lead with generative AI literacy : Increase your organization’s, including senior leadership’s AI literacy.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By breaking down each goal into consumable sections, we hope you will be able to maximize the impact of the SDGs, harness a shared language in seeking funding, and bring about greater change. It serves as a guide to navigating the information, how your mission aligns, and the attainment of each goal.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

You probably know that Robin was a pioneer in the ebook industry, but you probably don't know how she applied those experiences and her extensive network to the cause of advancing global literacy. If it works, libraries like Bookshare would mainly be put out of business. And much, much more.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. When building through the API For more advanced users, there are ways to better tune models with more variables beyond language. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response.

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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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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Much of the public discourse currently revolves around natural language models, and you’ve probably read commentary positing that ChatGPT offers a solution to virtually every problem. But a series of breakthroughs—including several over just the last decade—have catapulted AI to the forefront of our public consciousness.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

Hero language: When you tell a donor that your nonprofit wouldn’t exist without them, you are speaking the truth. Hero languages reinforces the idea that they made the right choice and increases the possibility that they will give again. But the rules are a bit different around IRS language. So why be shy about saying it?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2006

One of our dreams for the Route 66 technology is that it could be used to teach reading to people all over the world, in English as well as other languages. Jenny manages the China operations for a global cell phone technology company.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Relying too heavily on technology means that those who lack the resources, language skills, and savvy to use technology to its full potential are left behind. English as a second language. In addition to deepening inequities for low-income people, modern technology has a way of isolating or segmenting people by language.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Northstar Digital Literacy has some online assessments free to individuals. Adapt to various learning styles, physical and neurological variety, and language proficiency. For example, the University of Kentucky publishes this skills checklist with a list of basic computer skills you could adapt to your context.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 4, 2022

Thanks to a combination of six dots, people with visual impairments are able to translate a whole language with their fingertips. Braille literacy — and the ability to spell and write that comes with it — is important for everything from employability to not having to rely on technology.

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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! We also received our largest-ever award for human rights, a two-year, $2.2

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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. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 12, 2006

We discussed literacy and access for the blind, and I learned about one of Mr. Kohli's passions, which is adult literacy. The program focuses on mainly teaching a core vocabulary of sight words in the the desired language, so that adults are able read the local newspaper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions. Based on my experience with the Sharing Foundation in Cambodia, I know how important it is for children in developing countries to have books to read in their own language.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

We drew information from Resource Media''s Seeing is Believing report, and explained how the language of pictures is universal - picture processing is an ability that we''re all born with, as opposed to reading literacy.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Personalize the ask In a study of email fundraising campaigns, we found that the emails with the highest engagement rates addressed the recipients by name and used “you” language, speaking directly to the recipient. An example of this might be a literacy foundation raising $X to help provide tutoring to X number of students.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

As with all Asks, center your language around the things you’ll be able to do with the donor’s money – like the lives they’ll be able to change. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. Very good question. Monthly donors make this work possible!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

These tools can help organizations that work with individuals who have general writing concerns, English language learners, people with learning disabilities or physical handicaps in typing, people with dyslexia or recovering from strokes, and even those learning literacy and spelling.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. English is increasingly favored as a second language. The organization promotes ASEAN awareness through language training, mass media, and youth exchange activities (such as volunteer programs and youth camps).

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

A/B testing can help determine which language resonates and which does not. . You can’t build meaningful connections with folks unless you know what matters to them. Google Analytics can help you learn what donors care about via the web pages they land on, articles they open, and links they click.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

Chances are, even if you have, that’s not your actual title (although we recognize some job descriptions do use this language). 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. Illiterate.

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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. I believe in the power of books to change the world. We can do better!

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

MathAndCoding created a curriculum for the library based on the programming language Scratch , a language developed especially for kids by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Lab. The concept of] family literacy is also very important in our community. " Library-Specific Curriculum.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

ARC already has a training lab there that provides lifelong learning opportunities for older adults, many of whom speak languages other than English. It will also be used for digital literacy classes, and perhaps for ESL classes. The new MultiPoint Server system will mainly be used for open public access, primarily Internet use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

Our project on Global Giving focuses on literacy which is key to education and jobs for poor children. The Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy program helps farm children learn their native alphabet and numbers well enough to attend elementary school. The literacy school runs three sessions a day for 130 children of Roteang village???s

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

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. The Bookshare Angle We didn’t come to a conclusion about Bookshare’s increased involvement with WIPO, TIGAR and the new ABC.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The staff have to be very flexible; they talk with the kids in adult language, but always explain as needed. Although the community couldn't visit their usual haunts on techsoup.org, they could still keep up with TechSoup online. TechSoup Sweat Equity. They made good use of us as volunteers, in a rather spontaneous way."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2005

and new technolgies in early literacy development. understanding about techno-literacy practices such as blogging and texting, in. research into the language arts." As a parent and a technology trainer, I'm constantly reminded of the importance of scaffolding. in the practice. young children's interest in them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

During Arkenstone's 11 years, Benetech sold literacy products under the Arkenstone brand in more than a dozen languages to over 35,000 individuals in 60 countries. She truly is one of the great, quiet humanitarians who carry on Matilda Ziegler's legacy of literacy for those of us who are blind." Matilda Ziegler Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

This money will send over thousand Cambodian youngsters to school in 2007, plus cover a lot of the costs of the Sharing Foundation's educational programs which include a pre-school, khmer literacy program, English language program in the local village schools, vocational training (sewing school) and high school/college sponsorship programs.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Create a training program to ensure social media literacy. As you choose platforms and develop trainings, consider language needs, cultural norms, currency conversions and beyond. In case you missed this freezing cold yet informative day, here are my favorite key points from each session.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

" Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

I immediately saw the potential of being able to connect to my friends and family across distances and being able to read news and research in my other languages and from different perspectives than the media in the US provided. I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. The tools of Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

goQ Software 's writing assistance and speech recognition software, WordQ + SpeakQ (admin fees: $10-$15) can help nonprofits and libraries that work with individuals who need general writing assistance, English language learners, and even those learning literacy and spelling.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

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. It's also worth noting that TechSoup has just launched a first set of AT applications thanks to goQ Software.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

American Literacy is Iffy. We couldn’t have a language without them. They’re either looking for something specific or hoping to stumble upon something unexpected and exciting. In any case, users rarely read each word, left to right, all the way down the screen. The average American adult reads at an 8th-grade level. Cut “To Be” Verbs.

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