Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. But what about everybody else?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 5, 2021

Through Trailhead , Salesforce’s learning platform, we allow all 50,000+ employees to learn more about how Salesforce makes a difference, stemming from the 1-1-1 model ; how philanthropy fits into the Salesforce impact ecosystem; and how the company fosters innovation in its volunteering and giving programs. .

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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!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2013

As a Visiting Scholar, Bernholz will advance the Foundation’s literacy on a range of issues, particularly digital civil society, open data, and social good. com. She is working on her second book, tentatively titled, The Future of Good. She will be working with the Foundation’s multiple grantmaking programs on myriad projects.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Her experience includes 8+ years of Marketing, Communication, and Program Management for organizations working on issues such as poverty, financial literacy, voter engagement, health research, and the public arts. Cierra believes effective internal communications are essential to nonprofit success. Are you excited yet?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law.

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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 it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. I believe in the power of books to change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The Llama Pack Project partners with indigenous families like Mr. Luis’s family to create an economic development model that allows these families to earn an income through their llamas. They teach local families healthy llama breeding practices, tourism services and environmental literacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure. copyright law. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Social media literacy and facility is a 21st century core capacity. (3) We need to give that up along with linear logic models that assume we can control all the variables in our world in favor of a dynamic model that is more like life – full of actions and reactions. (5) 5) There is reason to be hopeful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM. Until Salesforce.org’s newly-released Grants Management tool, there was no comprehensive grantmaking product that fit our unique model and approach. Malala Fund is partnering with ACE Charity in Nigeria to provide children.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 26, 2011

It was only when I started reading works by critical accountants (another relatively new sub-field of accounting studies) that I began to really think about how conventional accounting models have been constructed. Accounting models and statements are socially constructed, so there is no reason why we can't create and adopt new models.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Of course, accessibility is right up Benetech’s alley and the focus of our Literacy program. One of these sub-themes is “Accessibility: removing barriers and promoting disability-inclusive development.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested. The even bigger one, in my view, is the acute shortage of talent in the sector, which I just wrote about in I’ll Take Great People Over Great Models Any Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Boston University provides in-kind space to host professional development forums, EVERFI supplies financial literacy coursework, and Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment adds expertise in the youth development space. How did these groups come together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Interfaith literacy events and interesting learning opportunities. How does your organization’s leadership model and support it? Some of our most popular perks include: Accrued paid time off starting at 15 days per year. 5 floating holidays and 7 fixed holidays per year. Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Financial literacy is an area where “fake until you make it” doesn’t apply. I’m guessing you were drawn to your current role because of the mission and impact, not the business model or financial challenges. . In a sector where budgets are typically tight, there is no position exempt from understanding some basic accounting principles.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

And now, you’re using a hybrid fundraising model to address both in-person and online engagement— and you likely have new software to address that change as well. What level of technology literacy exists across your team? What does your “dream state” look like, as far as your technology suite after the evaluation is completed?

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2016

Modeling what already exists—in this case nature—is understandably a favorable strategy because, in most cases, it works. Her career has been dedicated to helping students and professionals reach their full potential, including years of service in English and literacy at the secondary and higher education levels.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. This new hierarchy model is the basis for my exploration of virtual media as a delivery mode."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Canada is working towards providing every child in Canada who is in need of a mentor with an adult role model and friend. As a strong advocate of children literacy for the past 24 years, Reach out and Read has established a network of 5,000 partners in 50 states and distributes 6.5

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In addition to journalism training, the women attend literacy and computer skills classes and are ultimately employed as by GPI where their experience and relationships enable them to report from the perspective of community members on the social injustice and other issues that impact them. Celebrating Silo-Breakers and Fortress-Razers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

The philosophy is: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building. Another point about goals: Community Literacies esp. Maybe the most important part of the of a course like this are the community literacies that are accumulated through a community enquiry into new material. Just keep adding sections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

The model balances content, learning design, and participants. Brian Solis’s The End of Business As Usual and Brian Reich’s Shift and Reset. A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

One 21 century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. I’m a huge fan of Harold Jarche’s “ Seek, Sense, Share ” model. That’s less true. Content curation can help increase the shelf-life of your content – it gives it an extra half life. A Few Good Starter Tools.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. It is also developing a scalable model and toolkit for other communities to do the same work. " Program is creating new distribution channels for affordable produce to low-income people. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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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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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I think, not only in terms of digital literacy…but some people don’t have laptops with cameras, or they only kind of know how to use their smartphone, or maybe they don’t have access to the physical hardware at all to do some of this stuff.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2016

For nonprofits, I could imagine adapting this model to a fundraising cause. You can also convey practical how-to information or tips pertaining to your nonprofit via your newsletter (3 Ways to Save Water, How to Start Your Own Social Good Meetup, 5 Ways to Support Early Literacy, and so forth). Nonprofit Example #2: Rocket Dog Rescue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Non-profits like Room to Read are benefiting from the program by promoting International Literacy Day in partnership with Twitter. not organized or centralized by specific non-profit organizations) model be sustainable and/or enough to affect real change in the world? Hope140 ’s aim is to do just that. Want to be featured? Meet Matt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

And even more importantly, what's your take on this model as an engagement strategy? Looks like the work would take approximately 3-6 hours (figure out interview questions, conduct the interview, post the transcript) depending on your twitter literacy skills. So, I'm curious about what your take is on those questions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The Cause: Room To Read a not-for-profit organization that transforms the lives of millions of children by focusing on literacy. But if we look at for-profit companies using the sponsored tweet model (e.g. x (Total Retweets). retweet this message and our company will donate $x to charity), there is a better a benchmark.

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