EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

To illustrate, by the time 2023 Pride began on June 1, there were already over 500 pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation proposed or passed in state legislatures across the country. While there’s often increased attention on issues affecting the community during Pride month, meaningful and lasting change happens when advocacy happens year-round.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

This CMS also offers a vast library of ready-made themes to choose from, with over 11,000 themes available. Drupal offers a smaller theme library than WordPress, but it still has plenty of ready-made themes to work from. Submit a request for proposal (RFP). Review plans and get your questions answered.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. As the first librarian to host it, Karin Bricker, library manager for youth and outreach services at Mountain View Public Library, had to overcome some initial skepticism.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

At TechSoup, we support the efforts of nonprofits and public libraries working to build digitally inclusive and literate communities through donated technology from our corporate partners. Google's proposed Wi-Fi hotspots using Google Maps (very meta). Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy'

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On-demand trainings can be taken any time, with recent topics including fostering an inclusive culture , finding funding , and writing grant proposal budgets. These include cover letters, proposals, letters of inquiry, budgets, and more. . Philanthropy News Digest . To find the nearest location visit candid.org/find-us. .

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Candid

MAY 31, 2023

We’ve scoured our online library to find you our best quick reads and easy listens that will inspire you and help you recharge. Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals and Perfect Phrases for Fundraising by Beverly Browning. If you’d rather listen… Did you know that Candid’s online library also includes audiobooks ?

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Candid’s partners come in many forms: public libraries, community colleges, nonprofit resource centers, and foundations. So much so, that we created a program and began partnering with hundreds of organizations across the United States (and a few points abroad) to help them become go-to hubs for their local nonprofit communities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2012

Like almost all libraries, we're scrupulous in following the law, because we're serving incredibly important communities. We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). But, we're not for piracy.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

This trend poses two important questions: Will people embrace and use it to make complicated processes (like writing grant proposals) easier? As a librarian, I would be remiss if I didn’t say: Never sell short all the free resources at your local public library. Or will the biased side of generative AI become more dominant?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater. The goal of the Treaty is to provide access to the great accessible libraries of wealthier countries, as well as make it legally possible to make local content accessible in each country. For what am I advocating?

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 20, 2020

For example, the Free Library of Philadelphia operates a Regional Foundation Center at its main branch in Center City, Philadelphia – See if a Regional Foundation Center exists in your area. You can use this free access to research prospective grants and take the research back to your office to write your grant proposals. #6

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

They often resort to either tasking an ill-equipped staff member or intern to submit a grant proposal when that person has limited experience understanding the grantseeking process. Thinking about your programs as projects can also make a big difference in your grant proposal. Step 4: Think of your programs in terms of projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

We are joining with our peers in the disability and library community in a joint statement to strongly encourage the Senate to ratify the treaty and for Congress to implement the minor legislative changes recommended as part of the package. This question has also been unclear, and different libraries have treated this inconsistently.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

They often resort to either tasking an ill-equipped staff member or intern to submit a grant proposal when that person has limited experience understanding the grantseeking process. Thinking about your programs as projects can also make a big difference in your grant proposal. Step 4: Think of your programs in terms of projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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Candid

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we enter 2023, we’ve compiled a list of nonprofit books from Candid’s free digital library that can help inspire your nonprofit’s New Year’s resolutions. Winning Grants Step by Step: The Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing, and Writing Successful Proposals by Tori O’Neal-McElrath, Lynn Kanter, and Lynn English.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Cynthia Adams, CEO of TechSoup donor partner GrantStation , recently did an important online training webinar on how rural charities and libraries can get grants. If your charity or library happens to be located in rural America, it's not your imagination that it is harder to get grant funding in rural locations.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2017

Our free webinars will help you improve your grantseeking, connect you with local tech experts, and show you what Windows Server and Adobe Acrobat Pro DC can do for your nonprofit or library. Introduction to Windows Server for Nonprofits and Public Libraries. detail each section of a typical grant proposal. spanhidden.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) selected our successful Bookshare library as the provider of accessible materials to every student in the U.S. Bookshare has grown into the largest online digital library of accessible books and periodicals in the U.S., In September 2007, the U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

—– The Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference takes place Febrary 28-March 2 in Austin, TX, and I’m SO honored to be a keynote speaker! The keynote will focus on “Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation”. Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2012

There are many extremely helpful resources on GrantSpace, including a Finding Funders page as well as a list of sample funding proposals with cover letters, letters of inquiry, letter proposals, and proposal budgets. ONEplace at the Kalamazoo Public Library. Take a look at the Foundation Center's Find Us page.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But, I expect that 75% of the job will be about analyzing the legal issues from our programs, especially in our Global Literacy Program, which includes Bookshare, the largest digital library for the blind and dyslexic in the U.S., as well as our Human Rights Program, which supports activists fighting injustice around the world. What’s next?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The Proposals A. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR). The African Union Proposed Treaty (“AUPT”).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

The big recent digital inclusion news is the Federal Communication Commission's ( FCC ) proposal to extend the Lifeline Program , which has supplied discounted phone service to low-income people since 1985. If this proposal is enacted, it will, at a stroke, do more to close the U.S. Every Public Library in the United States.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2014

Read what TechSoup Global staff think of their ruling, how the gutting of Net Neutrality hurts nonprofits , and why libraries need to be especially vocal. online community Connecting to the Internet nonprofit Online Activism Using the Web and Internet nonprofits Community Tech Centers net neutrality library libraries Legal Considerations'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Bookshare actively cooperates with the Library of Congress in the provision of Bookshare’s services to people with disabilities, through its National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress (NLS).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2012

What happened when TechSoup gathered a room full of nonprofit and library professionals, social entrepreneurs, and programmers together on a recent Thursday ? At last Thursday's idea jam, despite only having about an hour to brainstorm, eight ideas were proposed. The ideas addressed major areas of concern for the U.S.:

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2014

Read what TechSoup Global staff think of their ruling, how the gutting of Net Neutrality hurts nonprofits , and why libraries need to be especially vocal. online community Connecting to the Internet nonprofit Online Activism Using the Web and Internet nonprofits Community Tech Centers net neutrality library libraries Legal Considerations'

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VisionLink

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Launch a new portal and create the web site, navigation, permissions, content, file libraries, intake forms, resource directories, and simple and advanced reports that are specifically appropriate to that new contract. Even better--you can mock up these tools as part of the proposal to win the contract. It''s all built in.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Wheeler wrote a proposal to reinstate net neutrality rules, which would allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to charge websites for faster services. The proposal is now being reviewed by the U.S. And as with the proposed net neutrality rules on fixed broadband, less lucrative content providers could end up in the slow lane.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

I often recommend you look to your local community for grant writing courses offered by community foundations and libraries and those available in the continuing education offices of universities and community colleges. You will be answering many questions in your grant proposals. You will need to be flexible and patient.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Use the Foundation Directory at the library or a university to find foundations out of state. For example, could people who donate every year be cultivated for a larger or monthly gift? Is the donor renewal rate low? Can you survey nonrenewing donors to see why they didn’t renew?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. One tip I could have used early on was to plan and design the grant project before writing up a query letter or proposal.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Our goal is to leverage our extensive and complementary networks of individuals and organizations to provide knowledge, training, and tools to nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs around the world. Library learning centers in five locations across the US. About Our Alliance. Check out the Foundation Center website to get started.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

Access to quality research provides nonprofits and libraries the ability to improve services, strengthen funding proposals, and share knowledge within the field. How can IssueLab help nonprofits and libraries? Join our free webinar on Friday, January 18 at 11 a.m. Register today as space is limited!

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