Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

If the pandemic forced us onto new and unfamiliar ground, now is the time to assess and balance how technologies have affected our reach, for better and for worse. We wanted to know how technology use has changed in volunteer management, especially through the pandemic. and Canada about their technology use.

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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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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . International Game Technology. They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

17: National Nonprofit Day — #NationalNonprofitDay (Internationally recognized). 17: National Nonprofit Day — #NationalNonprofitDay (Internationally recognized). 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 9: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples — #IndigenousDay. September.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. and James L. and James L. This is a huge legal victory!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

One of the easiest ways to contextualize your work is the United Nations Foundation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Let’s say your organization advocates for high-speed internet access in rural areas, helping students of all ages achieve digital literacy and support quality education.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Nonprofit Technology, and more! The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. The Corps Network National Conference.

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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. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. Defining Digital Literacy.

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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. Nation’s Report Card, National Assessment of Educational Progress Long Term Trends. History Assessments, designing and building interactive reports to explore NAEP data at the national, state, and district levels.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

However, technology is transforming innovation at its core and our team at Benetech does quite well in leveraging this “innovation at warp speed” for social good. His job is to explore new frontiers of technology for secure fact-finding by human rights groups and journalists. Technology for social change is needed more and more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. 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. copyright law.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 24, 2023

Participants track the number of pages they’ve read or books they’ve completed on a leaderboard to support literacy and education. For its Memorial May National Relay, the organization leveraged the power of Good Move, a free activity-tracking and fundraising mobile app offered by Blackbaud.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

We had just won the national contract to supply ALL disabled students in the United States, with ALL the books they needed to read to succeed in school, for free. This results in an ebook, which can be shared by Bookshare legally with many thousands of other disabled readers. Our crowd sourced model couldn't scale to meet this need.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

I was an expert witness for the National Federation of the Blind (which had joined HathiTrust as a defendant) in the district court case, and Benetech filed an amicus brief in the HathiTrust appeal case supporting the decision of the district court. copyright law, also known as the Chafee Amendment.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Cause Camp, presented by Nonprofit Hub and Do More Good , has been nationally recognized by Forbes as a “must-attend” for the nonprofit sector. It is his mission to help clients transform their data into strategy and provide an integrated approach that blends creativity with technological sophistication.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The human rights technology we eventually built and that anchors our Program— Martus —has since played a crucial role in strengthening the human rights community. The Martus story that has unfolded during that time is a tale of hard-won success and focused efforts to bridge human rights and technological innovation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2009

The National Federation of the Blind convinced the federal government to have the U.S. Mint strike and sell these Louis Braille Silver Dollars , and some of the money goes to supporting Braille literacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

This year’s winners will be announced March 14th, 2014 at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. In our networked, technological, diverse (dare I say fragmented) world there are plenty of new challenges. So, which capacities should we be building? Well, it depends.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2016

" The new rule also establishes a National Eligibility Verifier to ensure against waste, fraud, and abuse. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) has organized a prominent U.S. Connected Nation provides extensive broadband planning services and policy positions for communities and states.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2016

" The new rule also establishes a National Eligibility Verifier to ensure against waste, fraud, and abuse. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) has organized a prominent U.S. Connected Nation provides extensive broadband planning services and policy positions for communities and states.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Subscribers will also be given access to free digital literacy training. The digital divide in the United States has persisted over the years despite the inexorable march of technology. The National Broadband Plan and BTOP. The FCC created a National Broadband Plan in 2009 based on a Congressional mandate.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Matt is a research and information technology executive with key competencies in measurement and analytics, business process engineering and optimization, product development, and organizational management. In addition, Matt co-founded and served as Director of Technology for 2MC, a Chicago-based internet consulting firm.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

national level. national nonprofit focused on eliminating the digital divide. national nonprofit focused on eliminating the digital divide. information on low-cost computers and digital literacy training brings. under the National School Lunch Program. That’s why we’re excited to give our blog readers.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

The VietNet Information Technology and Communication Center ( VietNet-ICT ) is a Hanoi-based NGO working in information technology and communication. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. It is densely populated with 92 million people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

I live in Silicon Valley, a place that exists to drive creation of new and exciting technology. What about literacy and education? If you give all knowledge away freely, you'll discourage people and companies from investing in creating valuable technology and content. We often leave 90% of the planet out of these discussions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2013

Dana Abbey is the Health Information Literacy Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental region. This session is a part of a series of webinars connected to the public access technology benchmarks from the Library Edge project. Here's advice from a pro!

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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. Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

GivingTuesday is a movement to create a national day of giving , kicking off the giving season. And w e would like to spotlight a few in the TechSoup community who have joined us in championing this second annual national day of giving : InvestED has launched a volunteer and donation program specially designed around Giving Tuesday.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

These tools can help organizations that work with individuals who have general writing concerns, English language learners, people with learning disabilities or physical handicaps in typing, people with dyslexia or recovering from strokes, and even those learning literacy and spelling. What Does Assistive Technology Mean For You?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment. Route 66 Literacy Our newest project is Route 66 Literacy, and it includes a demonstration site that anyone can try out.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 16, 2005

We are delivering more and more books that meet the literacy needs of our users, by providing the latest bestsellers, textbooks and daily newspapers into accessible form. Another great piece of news is that Janice Carter has joined Benetech as our Director of Literacy Programs, and is now general manager of Bookshare.org.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The first time I really "got" the power of accessible technology (AT) to improve the lives of people with disabilities was when I saw the PBS documentary Freedom Machines. This simply means that disabled people often have little money and can't afford the assistive technology that would greatly enhance their lives.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

A national nonprofit, Year UP aims to close the opportunity gap and empower urban talent to reach their potential. Public libraries are also working diligently to close both the digital and the opportunity gap: from giving free classes on resume-building to providing free access to technology. Nonprofits Closing the Opportunity Divide.

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