Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

The Lisa Libraries. They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Our goal is to graduate more students who are ready to enter aerospace and advanced manufacturing careers and STEM-focused post-secondary education.” . The Lisa Libraries.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

In 2005 Facebook was only open to college students and professors, Twitter didn’t exist, and the iPhone was still in concept mode. National Audubon Society 2015. National Audubon Society 2005. New York Public Library 2015. New York Public Library 2005. United Nations 2015. United Nations 2005.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Pottsboro Area Library in Texas. We of course got lots of great stories, and our winner is the Pottsboro Area Library. Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. The library has new promotional materials to use. Their prize was a Dell Latitude Tablet 10.

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Library Digital Story Teen 54

Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

On June 1, programmers, activists, and civic leaders participated in the first ever National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) across 83 U.S. Leonard Library. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

The HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) is a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created (with help from Google ) a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms.

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Accessibility Copyright Law Library 205

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We have an array of copyright exceptions that cover the activities of archives and libraries, especially fair use and the copyright exception that benefits people with disabilities. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Copyright United States Library eBook 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. At the close of 2012, we are five years into our work in education and are serving over 230,000 students.

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Literacy Program United Arab Emirates Student 166

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Accordingly, U.S.

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Literacy eBook Images Accessibility 208

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

The goal of the DIAGRAM R&D Center is to greatly improve access to graphical information for students with print disabilities (for example, helping blind students get access to important graphics inside textbooks). The goal is to be able to gain access to the same learning a sighted student would get from that diagram.

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Images Alternative Student Accessibility 194

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

For example, one proposed change to the Treaty draft would make it the responsibility of an exporting library to need to know details about the publishing status of a book in another country before we could fill a request from a bona fide person with a print disability from that country. For what am I advocating?

Copyright 158

Copyright India Library United States 158

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. Even in the United States, this was true of probably a quarter of our student users.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. With Bookshare, our student members can access and read the books they need—in the classroom, at home, and on the go—and have a fair opportunity to succeed at school just like their peers without disabilities. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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Literacy eBook United Kingdom Accessibility 158

Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. RAN is establishing Resilience Innovation Labs within participating universities throughout Africa, coupled with online laboratories and a new online science library to help with its work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re thrilled that students and other readers who have disabilities that keep them from reading standard print can now read the same books as their peers, using the same devices. It is the world’s largest online accessible library, adding books at nearly four times the rate of the next most prolific U.S. This is a huge legal victory!

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Guatemala Literacy Qatar Open Source 159

Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. " The Role of Libraries. Additionally, 30 million library users reported going to the library for employment-related activities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Copyright Law Accessibility Library 196

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Students can raise money by selling products from a selected catalog that they can hand out to potential buyers. Encourage participants to take advantage of your local public library and get reading! Graduating students can create donation pages for their celebrations and ask people to donate to your cause as a graduation gift.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. Register for TechSoup for Libraries' upcoming free webinar on May 28.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

Why shouldn’t visually impaired and disabled students in the United States have easy access to the study of the languages? Why shouldn’t students in Puerto Rico benefit from our technology and services? One of the teachers enjoyed the training so much that he gave me his Puerto Rican national baseball cap!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

That year, the United Nations declared International Women's Year , and began sponsoring International Women's Day every March 8. women became the majority of law students. As in so many fields, nonprofits, religious organizations, libraries, and foundations are important change agents toward a world of gender equality.

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International Celebrate Technology Colombia 68

Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

March 7 is National Cereal Day and who doesn’t love a cereal buffet? SpringFundraising idea Number 2: Celebrate National Cereal Day with a pajama party for good. Over 30 fundraising ideas for spring, from daylight savings time to National Haiku Day. Local libraries may also be open hosting egg-hunters for a good cause.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. That’s the Caltech advantage!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

Japan is the biggest source of tourists for Guam, with growing numbers from other Asian nations like South Korea. The FSM, which is made up of four distinct island states (Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk and Yap) sent teams from each of their states as well as the national government. Not quite ready for students, yet!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I studied sociology, did a summer internship for the National Coalition for the Homeless , studied in Sweden for a semester (so that I could understand how their public policy worked), co-chaired Vassar''s Hunger Action chapter, and wrote a couple pieces about social-changey things for the student newspapers.

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Sweden Hunger Flash Library 66

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Earlier today, I attended the American Foundation for the Blind’s (AFB) National Leadership Conference in Chicago where I received the 2013 Migel Medal. And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea. It was named for the first board chair of AFB, M.C.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Pohnpei State includes the island of Pingelap, which has 10% of their students with a hereditary condition called achromatopsia. This is a complete colorblindness that results in students being low vision. We visited the national capital in Palikir, which is about 8 miles away from Kolonia, the main town on Pohnpei.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 27, 2008

As part of the large national award we received from the Department of Education, we are spending a lot more time in Washington. The biggest issue I'm still working on is one I mentioned two years ago: getting access to the textbooks in the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC). This is our current objective.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them. School districts scrambled to get Chromebooks to students. CVAs lament how technology gaps can exclude some people in systematic ways.

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Accessibility Technology Language Oregon 97

Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" Here at TechSoup, we're excited to see nonprofits and public libraries as well as our donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco, involved with TechHire. People at the event got to hear first-hand from a Year Up graduate about the impact of this national nonprofit. Year Up's Partnership with TechHire.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

From accountants to college students, from administrators working in construction offices to legal professionals, many are considering new career directions to gain more meaningful work and to serve the greater good in their communities. Q: What kind of folks have asked about becoming a grant writer?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

The goal of this repository is to ensure that students with print disabilities have easy access to textbooks. We were close to next month's launch of the NIMAC, this new national textbook repository, a process which has taken two years since the passage of the updated Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by Congress in November 2004.

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Washington Accessibility Student Library 100

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Matthew Perdoni also invited everyone to the Independent Sector Embark National Conference in late October in Miami. Good 360 has been around since 1983; it provides product donations to charities and libraries and also to victims of disasters. Registration for nonprofits and libraries is free. The TechSoup admin fee is $10.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2008

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. I enjoyed giving my 20 minute talk on Bookshare.org and building a global library. More on him later as well.

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India Language Library Student 100

Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. " Waukesha Public Library. An increasing number of public libraries are discovering TechSoup donations, but few are maxing them out like Waukesha Public Library in Wisconsin.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. students at Stanford University. California became the first state in the nation to have a law go into effect concerning privacy. .

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