Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Social network communities are highly responsive to giving and promoting your nonprofit on cause awareness days provided that your nonprofit prepares at least one month in advance. 15: National Bike to Work Day — #BikeToWorkDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 19: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

The real-time, in-the-moment nature of cause awareness and giving days can inspire donors to give provided that your nonprofit knows how to promote the days effectively. 17: National Nonprofit Day — #NationalNonprofitDay (Internationally recognized). 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay.

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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. 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.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

From creating digital learning opportunities and initiatives to protect girls’ mental well-being to securing national funding for education — the Champions we support are driving solutions to girls’ education challenges in their communities. . The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. The Urban Institute is a “nonprofit research organization that provides data and evidence to help advance upward mobility and equity.” Nation’s Report Card, National Assessment of Educational Progress Long Term Trends.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Universal City Studios, Inc., As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. We called this idea Bookshare , which is now Benetech’s largest Global Literacy initiative.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

To most patrons, HDL merely delivers titles and page numbers as results, but the University of Michigan’s Library, one of the HathiTrust members, does allow access to the full text of copyrighted works for people with qualifying print disabilities. It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2016

I based this largely on a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed rule change to expand the Universal Lifeline Program to include affordable $9.25-a-month " The new rule also establishes a National Eligibility Verifier to ensure against waste, fraud, and abuse. nonprofit and library digital inclusion consortium.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2016

I based this largely on a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed rule change to expand the Universal Lifeline Program to include affordable $9.25-a-month " The new rule also establishes a National Eligibility Verifier to ensure against waste, fraud, and abuse. nonprofit and library digital inclusion consortium.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

What about literacy and education? Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology. Like companies, university tech transfer offices are encouraged solely to find commercially valuable applications of inventions. Regulation is helpful, but not enough.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Our Nonprofits Live interactive series is designed to address such questions and find solutions for the toughest organizational issues. Collaborative Conversations have been convened in client companies such as Genentech, NASA, The National Park Service at Yosemite, UCSC, and The Center for Interfaith Relations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, April 15, 2011 Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead and Manage a Nonprofit Organization posted by Laura L. A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] 1] In the past few decades, the nonprofit workforce has become increasingly professionalized.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Subscribers will also be given access to free digital literacy training. The reason the Internet Essentials program came about was because of Comcast's recent acquisition of NBC Universal. The National Broadband Plan and BTOP. The FCC created a National Broadband Plan in 2009 based on a Congressional mandate.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

The Lifeline Program is funded through the Universal Service Fund via contributions from telecom companies (and their customers). They will create and promote digital literacy programs. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) is a new U.S. A Human Right.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's one of the great untold stories of nonprofit enterprise. That's where nonprofit computer refurbishers come in. There is a surprising number of nonprofit computer refurbishers in North America that now supply accessible technology equipped computers, and lately iPads and iPods to disabled people at no or low cost.

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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. Third, the print book is not universally accessible. I believe in the power of books to change the world.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We like to think that most nonprofits are concerned about their reach toward individuals who might struggle to connect with their offerings, at least in the best of times. So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Social media's still pretty great, though, for raising awareness about your nonprofit, communicating with existing supporters, and listening to your community.). Communications and Marketing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, which funds this magazine as well as eye research programs at universities across the United States. I found Bookshare's interesting history on its Web site's About Us section: "Benetech, a new kind of nonprofit enterprise, is sponsoring the Bookshare initiative. Matilda Ziegler Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. one month ago was to determine whether there is potential for nonprofits to cultivate significant donors online (defined as someone who gives $1,000 or more), and how that can be accomplished. I used a cli.gs

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

National Science Foundation. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Seeing more inquiries of small nonprofit academic research entities. It will be different for universities than smaller nonprofits. They have observed that many nonprofits don't do any evaluation because it seems ominous and hard to understand.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2022

The Vega Awards acknowledge those who create and continually expand the digital universe. National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. Centauri – Website for Nonprofit. Nation’s Report Card, National Assessment of Educational Progress Long Term Trends.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate.

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