sgEngage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals outline the most pressing and complex social issues facing the earth and offer a framework for ending world poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring peace and well-being for all its people. The UN Foundation created them to highlight what needs to be achieved by 2030 and track progress.

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Impact Global Literacy Articulate 71

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2011

Last quarter Betsy Beaumon presented the future of our Literacy program including Bookshare. He talked about the opportunities and challenges he sees ahead, especially as technology tools continue to be adopted by more of the human rights community, from cell phones to Facebook. But this week, human rights was front and center.

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Literacy Disaster Phone Press 150

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2009

Betsy Beaumon, formerly of BEA Systems and numerous other high tech roles (including founding her own social enterprise in the 1990s), has joined us as our new Vice President and General Manager of Literacy Programs. The press release on the appointment has much more detail. Tags: literacy Benetech Beaumon Bookshare.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For over a decade, she’s brought fundraising strategy & technology together to create successful campaigns. Hilary specializes in technology audits, digital fundraising, and technology implementations. You’ve decided to lead your organization through a technology assessment. With that, let’s get started!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

At CGI Annual Meetings, leaders from across sectors do more than just developing new ideas or getting inspired: they come together to take real action to address pressing global challenges. I had the honor of attending CGI 2013 where I announced Benetech’s latest Commitment to Action.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world? Martus Desktop 4.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

This fair use victory is crucial not only for our present work, but also for our social mission at large and for the future of our work under our Global Literacy program. With the leverage of technology and the foundation provided by well thought-out IP laws, we can inspire both economic growth and social good.

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Accessibility Copyright Law Library 205

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. During the party we had a surprise video message from Stevie Wonder, a long-time Bookshare member who told us that he is using Read2Go to read accessible books from the Bookshare library.

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Celebrate Google Literacy Library 145

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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Accessibility eBook People Copyright 135

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

By announcing this in many press interviews, I've managed to create lots of external pressure on myself to get this done! Speaking of the press, it is clear that they really get my overarching goal: to engage more of the tech community in serving the 90% of humanity we haven't been focusing on (yet).

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 23, 2017

From improving literacy to helping communities recover after natural disasters, nonprofits take on vital roles to do good in the world. How do you get noticed in a busy world with many growing and pressing concerns? In this technologically driven world, a professional web presence is vital to the sustainability of any nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

Here's who is talking and what it is about: Are kids different today because of their exposure to technology? MacArthur Foundation will make a major announcement that will generate a greater understanding of the impact technology and digital media has on today's youth. "Digital Learning" Press Briefing and Panel Discussion.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. If you want to see the data historically, be sure to visit the site and press “Play&# on the map.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 6, 2004

We aren't ready to release the press release, but I did get the ok to post my remarks. Bookshare.org also gets many books from other active volunteers who share our passion for independent literacy, as well as directly from publishers. If you have speech technology, you can use that to listen to it. Hello, Federation!!

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United States Literacy Accessibility Press 100

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World is an international nonprofit organization and citizen journalism initiative. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism. I have a story that you have to hear.'"

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2006

She has also taught automotive technology, and sustainable building and agriculture and has traveled to agricultural conferences and led workshops on cob/bale building. Rachel can teach you how to make biodiesel, how to convert your car to run on straight vegetable oil, and how to fix your car too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Henry Jenkins notes that it isn't about the tools and that it was more about the culture growing up around the technology. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 6, 2012

A year ago, Johns Hopkins University's Center for Civil Society Studies published a document titled, " The Nonprofit Technology Gap - Myth or Reality." The authors of the publication were curious to find out how accurately the widely held assumption that nonprofits are at a technological disadvantage reflects reality.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We're sure we can do this because our technology allows us to cost-effectively and rapidly scale Bookshare.org. I'm especially excited about our efforts to reach students who haven't traditionally had access to assistive technology. Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

We have a highly efficient system for creating technology that solves problems and delivers value far beyond the confines of Northern California. But, we have only scratched the surface of what we could be doing to help solve the pressing social problems that confront us. Increasing literacy for women? What's your issue?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

And I mean really ask, not by mass email or Twitter, but with a phone pressed to your ear, leaning over a table at a coffee shop, hanging on every word – the kind of ask that demonstrates you are listening because the other person is fascinating. I learned a few things from this experience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

We have reality tours where we take people out to other parts of the world, kind of reverse Club Med, "get your butt off the beach and meet real people," see the development projects, the literacy campaigns, the women's groups, the political opposition parties, the trade unions, but focused on positive, build the next system kind of things.

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Global Green San Francisco Model 40

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Last week, NAS brought 25 people (including me) to Washington to discuss what issues might be appropriate to cover in the report, which is at least 3 years from hitting the press (assuming it receives funding). What follows are my notes from the meeting, separated roughly into six major topics of discussion.

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