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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities.

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright law. A little over 4 years ago, we won a competitive contract award from the US Department of Education which took a bold risk on Bookshare. Instead of us deciding what people with disabilities should read, we let our readers decide which books should be scanned and shared under an exception in the U.S.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We also have thousands of adults with disabilities that pay a $50 a year subscription to be able to download all the books and newspapers they can read. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. And then they go away.

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NPower Greater DC Region Technology Innovation Award - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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» Monday Aug 27 2007 NPower Greater DC Region Technology Innovation Award Monday, August 27, 2007 at 10:18AM | by Hatef Yamini If your nonprofit is a 501(c)3 and meets some other basic criteria, you can apply for a an Innovation Award and win up to $43,000 in cash, technologoy consulting, hardware and software.

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Convio Innovator Awards - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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The awards committee praised Lambda Legal for using conditional content very well. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com CI’s innovative approach included tracking the movement of actual sea turtles. Lambda Legal won the “Email Communications” prize for a campaign that grew their readership by 35% per year.

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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. All rights reserved.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. It’s good for branding your nonprofit and protecting the copyright of your photos. It is a must download! Even if you are set in your browsing ways with IE or Firefox, Google Chrome only takes of few minutes of your time to download and experience.

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