Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Training and capacity building: Offer training programs, workshops, and resources for journalists to improve their skills, adapt to new technologies, and stay competitive. They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions.

Journal 88

Journal Local News Fund 88

Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . What is most important is that whoever writes the grant fully understands the project and the organization and how to present both to the funders. . International Game Technology.

Education 84

Education Grant Fund Resource 84

.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

Periodic technology assessments guarantee that those resources are in good order to deliver on the ambitious goals you’ve set. However, the last two years demonstrated that a hidden technology deficit can have devastating consequences. Put Safety First As technology grows more sophisticated, so do hackers.

Technology 221

Technology Evaluation Attitude System 221

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2011

Technology has revolutionized business, but bringing those breakthrough developments to government, education and the nonprofit sectors can take 5, 10, even 15 years. We’re convinced that there are many innovative social applications of technology could make a 5X or a 10X or even a 15X improvement over status quo solutions.

Technology 150

Technology Change Social Literacy 150

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.

Accessibility 100

Accessibility Technology Language Oregon 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Of course, accessibility is right up Benetech’s alley and the focus of our Literacy program. Bookshare is dramatically exceeding its five-year collection and member targets at the close of the fourth year of our Bookshare for Education (B4E) project funded by the U.S. We’re honored and proud to embark upon this new project!

Impact 140

Impact Technology eBook Student 140

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

A passionate technology-for-good advocate, Gerardo has made major contributions to Benetech’s social mission since he joined us over four years ago. He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs.

Open Source 184

Open Source Literacy eBook Empowerment 184

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.

Literacy 208

Literacy eBook Images Accessibility 208

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.

Literacy 158

Literacy eBook United Kingdom Accessibility 158

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 8, 2006

Route 66 Literacy began its first beta at Community Association for Rehabilitation, Inc. We were delighted by the feedback from the users and the C·A·R staff about the results, and we're planning to press ahead to raise money to take this project to the next stage. C·A·R) in January, here in Palo Alto, California.

Literacy 100

Literacy California Press Children 100

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. with the books they need for educational success.

Guatemala 159

Guatemala Literacy Qatar Open Source 159

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 9, 2022

In Chicago, Habitat’s commitment is to local families to achieve strength, stability, and self-reliance through housing and development projects. There are only so many homes that can be built, but when we’re able to help prepare people for homeownership through education, financial literacy, and sound advice, we can help even more.”.

Chicago 220

Chicago Case Study Goal Time 220

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2006

The session was called "Funding Technology Projects" and was moderated by Jeff Forster. Here's the first segment about how to keep up with learning about technology. Some key points that resonated: Mackie spoke about the issue of nonprofits keeping up to speed in technology and how difficult it was. Consortium.

Technology 50

Technology Arts Project Literacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Source: Pew Internet and America Life Project: " Networked Workers " Study. Michele Martin and Tony Karer have been blogging at the Work Literacy blog for several months now. The topics they look at are what I might call social media literacy skills. Mostly they are aware, but haven't experienced it.

Literacy 50

Literacy Social Media Skills Media 50

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. Our flagship Martus software project marks its tenth anniversary of bringing strong crypto to human rights activists. Technology for social change is needed more and more.

India 142

India Literacy Global Accessibility 142

Nucleus

MARCH 2, 2021

of firms report that the pace of investment in these projects is accelerating. Investments in data governance, data literacy, programs that build awareness of the value and impact of data within an organization, represent an important step in the right direction. In the 2021 survey, 92.2%

Associations 130

Associations Data Analytics Culture 130

Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

More time – your staff can spend more time on valuable projects rather than creating reports or developing Excel spreadsheets. Lifetime value – you can use data analytics to project the lifetime value (LTV) of members and you can break down the LTV by segments. Some associations have saved hundreds of hours on report creation per year.

Analytics 169

Analytics Language Associations Case Study 169

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?

Open Source 183

Open Source Africa Zimbabwe Malawi 183

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.

Digital 66

Digital Literacy Community Build 66

NTEN

JULY 24, 2012

] By Paula Jones, Director of Technology, The N. Center for Nonprofits, I have the opportunity to talk with many nonprofit board members and staff across North Carolina about their use of technology. In doing so, one statement that resonates with everyone is “No one funds technology.” Include technology needs in grant proposals.

North Carolina 70

North Carolina Org Fund Technology 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

But, everyone can raise their data literacy, especially visualization. So, as I curate resources on this topic, I was excited to discover Rahul Bhargava – a data nerd who writes the Data Therapy Blog for the MIT Center for Civic Media. .” Why this resource? To create change, data must lead to action.

Data 101

Data Literacy Boston Charlotte 101

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2011

Last quarter Betsy Beaumon presented the future of our Literacy program including Bookshare. Next quarter will be our new projects meeting, where we talk about the pipeline of new ideas for Benetech social enterprises. Each of our quarterly meetings tends to focus on big strategic issues facing Benetech.

Literacy 150

Literacy Disaster Phone Press 150

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Judy Heumann (left) moderating the panel on empowering the world''s billion people with disabilities On the second day of the CGI Annual Meeting, I announced Benetech’s Commitment to Action : Leveraging Technology to Bring Books to the Blind in India.

Global 134

Global India Mobile Impact 134

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

However, the time has come when we need a really smart attorney to join Benetech and help us navigate the intersection of technology and social good. Many of our projects turn on legal questions, and our attorneys are a core part of figuring out solutions that will have real positive impact on society.

United States 134

United States Library Copyright License 134

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2013

A thought leader in the intersection of philanthropy, law, policy, and technology, Bernholz writes about the business of giving in books, articles, and her award-winning blog, Philanthropy2173.com. She will be working with the Foundation’s multiple grantmaking programs on myriad projects. Philanthropy'

Foundation 100

Foundation Philanthropy Literacy Law 100

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.

Burma 168

Burma Analysis Guatemala Law 168

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. Tags: literacy Benetech Beaumon Bookshare. The press release on the appointment has much more detail.

Leadership 100

Leadership Literacy News Press 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

When we describe self-care in the book, it isn’t just a focus on physical health, but also something we call “technology wellness.” The same can be said for working on different nonprofit projects – write one grant proposal at a time. Today’s session was on information overload and single tasking.

Arts 50

Arts Literacy Brain Reflection 50

Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

" Local humor aside, the project is exciting: 31 public parks in San Francisco will get free Wi-Fi for at least two years. 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. century jobs.

Library 55

Library San Francisco Public Digital 55

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. The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure.

Accessibility 247

Accessibility License Copyright Library 247

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!

Tech 52

Tech Consultant Nonprofit Software 52

VisionLink

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Using VisionLink''s portal technology, you can create entire systems for particular stakeholders--perhaps it''s your board of directors, or those working on a literacy project, or for a group of housing specialists. Now you have even more tools to control who can see what, when, how and why. You''ve not seen anything like this.

Literacy 100

Literacy Accessibility Contact Director 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Benetech Truths 1 We are committed to social change through technology. Benetech is a Silicon Valley nonprofit organization developing innovative technology solutions with a primary goal of positive social change rather than profit. Our users are the primary drivers of our technology development. 2 We get stuff done.

Literacy 145

Literacy Articulate Open Source Conservancy 145

AFP Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Belfast Nonprofit Brings Affordable Technology to Mainers | Bangor, Maine News, Sports, and Weather - WABI TV5 : We’ve helped almost 10,000 families so far in the 12 years,” said E-Commerce Manager Calvin Robbins. Jodi Martin started the nonprofit, Information Technology Exchange, with her husband. “We We have two programs.

News 22

News Literacy Technology Library 22

Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Since then, Forum One has completed multiple reports each year under the NAEP program, including the most recent 2019 Nation’s Report Cards for Mathematics, Reading, and Science, and the 2018 Technology and Engineering Literacy, Civics, Geography, and U.S. Our design aimed to bring the human element of the humanities into focus.

Award 69

Award Communication Arkansas Drupal 69

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Over the course of a three-year grant , Champions implement ambitious, goal-oriented projects and participate in advocacy campaigns aimed at changing local and national policies that hinder equal access to education. The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM.

Education 92

Education Lebanon Nigeria Broadcast 92

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 13, 2007

We recently had a meeting in Silicon Valley to celebrate the progress we're making with the Route 66 Literacy program. She heads the Center of Literacy and Disability Studies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The main reason for the meeting was that Professor Karen Erickson was in town.

North Carolina 100

North Carolina Literacy Foundation Demonstration 100