Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

The Early Learning Lab , Frontiers of Innovation , and New Profit , along with partners Joan Ganz Cooney Center and TechSoup, are working together to build the technology capacity of the early childhood education field. If you work with young children at a nonprofit or library, this free webinar series is for you. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2016

Spring forward into technology for your nonprofit or library during March! The Early Learning Lab , Frontiers of Innovation , and New Profit , along with partners Joan Ganz Cooney Center and TechSoup , are working together to build the technology capacity of the early childhood education field. Nurture Your Photoshop Skills.

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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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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A library in Oregon had similar concerns about the accessibility of technology during the pandemic: In order to volunteer with us right now, you basically have to have access to a device and the internet…which is not how it was in the past. The challenges of remote volunteering are front-of-mind for many volunteer managers.

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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. For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Although the members of our board were impressed with all three nominees, they awarded Carrie Karnos of Palo Alto, CA, the 2006 Veale Award for her work with an accessible online library called Bookshare. The market was small and for-profit companies were not interested. Benetech's origins start with its Arkenstone project.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2013

We are a computer literacy project, 501 C3, and we help get computers into the hands of underprivileged, schools, non profits, and libraries,” said Martin, the executive director.' “We have two programs. One is PC’s for Maine and one is PC Medix. PC’s for Maine is our nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

For the past five years, the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati has honored Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday by asking a writer to give the annual Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture about, "Writing to Change the World." On the opposite days, we work for a non-profit related to our study. See how theory actually works.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

It is not in the public interest to have one for profit company attempt to gain a monopoly over a single generic term in common use. The application is against the public interest. The public interest is served even less when a business entity such as Salesforce attempts to privatize a term predominately used by the nonprofit sector.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Those who envision what could be possible by having Benetech apply innovative technology to the areas of Literacy, Human Rights, and the Environment, and who enable us to explore new opportunities for creating social good. Department of Education that enables us to provide the Bookshare library services for free to all qualifying U.S.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If your organization promotes literacy, partner with a bookstore. Is there a product the business can sell with the profit going toward your organization? Make and market a t-shirt together, with your organization getting the profits and both you and the business benefiting from the marketing. Partner with a local business.

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