Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. Veterans Bookshare has always been a great resource for veterans with print disabilities. What if you’re a U.S. Or all three?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Capacity building is not a one-time effort to improve short-term effectiveness, but a continuous improvement strategy toward the creation of a sustainable and effective organization” (National Council of Nonprofits, 2017). The truth is, it takes human resources, or employee salaries, to run most programs and make an impact. Conclusion.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

" A 2011 university study similarly found that 62 percent of homeless teens had a phone and data plan and that they considered the device as important for them as food. That's why the FCC’s Lifeline Program has provided low- and no-income people with literally millions of mobile phones and minutes over the last few years.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. students at Stanford University. California became the first state in the nation to have a law go into effect concerning privacy. .

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Fund for UNICEF, and United Way Worldwide to bring more mobile technology resources charities. and is the eighth largest economy in the world, so it is expected that the law will become de facto national legislation. None-the-less, as California goes, so goes the nation – again. This is more futuristic tech for good.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

When Detroit was going bankrupt in 2013, the city's emergency manager fought to sell off some of the prized artworks in the Detroit Institute of Art. In 2009, Brandeis University came close to looting and liquidating its Rose Art Museum, and today, a similar controversy is raging over the museum at La Salle University.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The National Directory of Corporate Giving is a print directory for finding funding from corporations, that provides portraits of approximately 3,000 corporate foundations and 1,000 direct giving programs with essential information such as guidelines, priorities, financial data, and recent grants awarded. Research Grant Guides. Search Tips.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

As of June 2013, there were 70 million users, and 30 percent of those were active. Plus, Slideshare partners with several resources including LinkedIn, Twitter and FreeConference.com. This is how the National Wildlife Federation uses Slideshare to connect with constituents. Still looking for ideas?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

launched in August 2013 when they became available to app developers for $1,500 – by invitation only. It was developed at Singularity University and uses technology from the NASA Mars Rover project. The National Institutes of Health is the primary funder of the project. Google Glass was launched 18 months ago.

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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. This tool provides data on schools across the country – School Districts, Colleges and Universities, Legal Units (i.e.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 3, 2018

Nationally and in Arizona, systemic challenges are present. While poverty was rising, so were national high school graduation rates. percent in 2015 (National Center for Education, 2016). Shore, Hammond, Celep, 2013). Shore, Hammond, Celep, 2013). National Center for Education. (Senge, et. percent (U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Janet is also a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and she runs a satellite office of LIS there. She suggested: In Uruguay: What is the poverty rate among individuals and households (using any of a number of poverty lines – absolute or relative, national or regional)? Which are widespread?

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

The rest of these tips don’t really make sense if you aren’t participating… GivingTuesday.org has great resources and a way to list your organization GivingTuesday.org/join. Look to your supporters for great fundraising stories that you can bring national attention to. Fox Foundation did this very well in 2013. Enroll here. .

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The Corporation for National & Community Service has very insightful statistics on the volunteering and civic life. In 2013: 6 million of us volunteered 7.7 A Royal Albert Memorial Museum partnership with Exeter University recruited students as micro-volunteers to engage with visitors to their Gilbert and George exhibit.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

As The Daily Beast senior correspondent for national security and politics Josh Rogin put it : Movements.org "seeks to put activists in closed societies in touch with skilled people in the free world who can help them. It's crowdsourcing for human rights." Keyes made Movements.org into a marketplace for human rights.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 20, 2017

The question then is how to harness the energy and resources of philanthropy to balance the power within the sector and promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)? National Council of Nonprofits. People of color represented within nonprofit sector (Brown, 2015). The state of diversity in the nonprofit sector. Retrieved from [link].

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