Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The Bookshare promise to American students with disabilities is that if they need a book for education, Bookshare will ensure that they have it. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S. copyright exception, which was one of the inspirations for the Marrakesh Treaty. We don’t have to ask for permission from the publisher or author.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

The goal was to bring each of the key leaders from the island states up to speed on the NIMAS and NIMAC: the mandated and recommended elements of a strategy of delivering books to students with disabilities. education laws as part of receiving extensive funding. Not quite ready for students, yet!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. While the overwhelming consensus was that such behavior isn’t right, there are few laws on the books to address these scenarios.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle. But, the lousy quality of accessibility of the Kindle presents a civil rights problem: schools can't adopt Kindles and lock out their disabled students. The DMCA workaround.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices contributed these $10 digital cameras. Kim Pichda I am Kim Pichda, a third year law student in PUC and also an administrative assistance and librarian of PUC Legal Clinic. I also contributed my used Olympus digital recorder that I purchased when I read about it from Andy Carvin.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

That's why it's painful to hear about disputes over denying students with very real print disabilities access to these resources. We’ve already made a huge difference in the area of software for students with disabilities and for human rights and environmental organizations. serving students with print disabilities.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

Fabricated societal hierarchies placed on us, such as being labeled “the model minority” — a harmful myth used to divide minority groups and to create the illusion that Asians do not experience the same degrees of hardship as other minorities — have only made it more difficult for our voices to be heard. Photo Credit: Aaron Molo. Kaitlin Lee.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 17, 2022

It emphasizes why direct action to break unjust laws is needed, rather than waiting for justice or equality to arrive. Nonviolent resistance to unjust laws eventually influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Nonviolent resistance to unjust laws eventually influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 16, 2023

It emphasizes why direct action to break unjust laws is needed, rather than waiting for justice or equality to arrive. Nonviolent resistance to unjust laws eventually influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Nonviolent resistance to unjust laws eventually influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2009

Environmental Groups Prompt EPA to Block Five Mountaintop Mining Projects For several years, Sierra Club , EarthJustice and Appalachian Voices have campaigned strongly to end mining projects that involve blasting away entire peaks, then dumping millions of tons of waste rock in the valleys below, causing permanent damage to the ecosystem.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

As a presenter, advocate, or fundraiser, your job is to ensure that your colleagues, followers, or students want to soak up your message — a tall order, especially in a digital environment. A great example from last summer is from an opioid law suit — the State of Oklahoma v. How can I say it in as few words as possible?’

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

It is a collaboration between American students and residents of Sikoro, a dusty periurban town of 65,000 people outside the capital city of Bamako, Mali. Some funding is exterior, but we are and will remain a low-budget organization, relying on the volunteerism of American students and Malian citizens.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

As a presenter, advocate, or fundraiser, your job is to ensure that your colleagues, followers, or students want to soak up your message — a tall order, especially in a digital environment. A great example from last summer is from an opioid law suit — the State of Oklahoma v. How can I say it in as few words as possible?’

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Each week, I’ve been ceding the blog to others as a chance to hear many voices share their thoughts about our field, where we are, and where we are going. This field is varied, and each voice adds to our collective understanding of the situation. For this week, I’m re-posting Andrea Montiel de Shuman’s Medium post with permission.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

We also have a student division: STAND , which has more than 850 chapters around the world, and the students in those chapters actively organize and mobilize their communities and schools to pass legislation, to fundraise, and to really make more noise about genocide in Darfur and genocide in general. His campaign was successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2007

In our dictionary in Khmer, no word for cyber, but we have a cyber law. So he try reduce the cost of using Internet to be lower for the students. What is the strategy to development our student's knowledge of using computers and Internet? When he asked students if they want to use the computer, the student say yes.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For proof, look no further than the recent victory to lift the ban on Pell Grants for incarcerated students. The law banned people in prison from accessing Pell Grants to help cover the cost of college tuition. Center the voices, experiences, and expertise of those most impacted by your efforts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2006

I do love his songs and his amazing voice, but that is not the reason I would like to write to him. A young woman from Georgia: I want to write an e-mail/letter/blog to the officials in Belarus, who are responsible for not letting exchange students come to the United States. I’d try to describe every aspect of it and how it helped me.

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Everyaction

JUNE 26, 2018

This month, our EveryAction hero is Jewish Voice for Peace. How did Jewish Voice for Peace get started? Jewish Voice for Peace has been around for 20 years, We’re a national organization with over 70 chapters and 15,000 members across the country. We also have an artists council, an academic council, and a student program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

Vital Voices :: @ VitalVoices. Vital Voices works with extraordinary women leaders accelerating peace and prosperity in their communities. Southern Poverty Law Center :: @ SPLCenter. The Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit organization that combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

So the best ways to engage gen Z are to give them a voice, we’ll talk more about that, but making sure that they have opportunities to, you know, give their own ideas and speak their voice. And yes, I would say, even with high school and college students, you might have people who want to identify that way.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Computer science is one of the most popular majors at Stanford—it’s taken by nearly 20 percent of the student body. But in recent years, this trio of professors noticed their students were often attracted to the field mainly because of its financial rewards. How do we weigh them off against some of our other goals?”

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