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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Earlier today, I attended the American Foundation for the Blind’s (AFB) National Leadership Conference in Chicago where I received the 2013 Migel Medal. The Migel Medal, often called the highest honor in the blindness field, is awarded annually to one or two individuals whose careers exemplify exceptional accomplishments in the field.

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The 2013 "NTEN" Award: Maddie Grant

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These individuals, recipients of the annual NTEN Award, are the people working hard to move NTEN''s mission forward from within the community: always ready to share a case study, idea, or contact. While we''re excited to present this award annually to a single individual, we know that a successful community is much more than than one person.

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Measuring the Networked Nonprofit” is 2013 Terry McAdam Book Award Finalist

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My second book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World co-authored with Katie Delahaye Paine and featuring a foreword by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen has been chosen as one of four finalists for the 2013 Terry McAdam Book Award of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management. He loved Rob Cottingham cartoons.

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Mobilizing Impact at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

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I had the honor of attending CGI 2013 where I announced Benetech’s latest Commitment to Action. I’ve just had the chance to reflect on how cool CGI 2013 and some of the ideas I’m still processing! a11y Beaumon Benetech blind Bookshare CGI2013 India Lavelle Marrakesh print disabilities Skoll Skoll Foundation socent VIPDC'

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Lucy Bernholz Named Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced today that Lucy Bernholz will join the Foundation as a Visiting Scholar effective fall 2013 and through 2014. com. She will continue in this role in addition to her work with the Packard Foundation. Philanthropy'

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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

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Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000. What is the Foundation 1000? At Candid, we collect data on millions of grants and other transactions awarded by hundreds of thousands of funders across the globe. private and community foundations. i Even though the Foundation 1000 makes up only about 1% of U.S.

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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

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He will serve in this position until Franco finishes his term in August 2013. He is also one of the creators of the environmental protection movement in Paraguay, having co-founded the Moisés Bertoni Conservation Foundation and the Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, two of the country’s prominent nature conservation institutions.

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