Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. Making content accessible for the blind has been a traditional example of fair use.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The Day aims to raise awareness of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and the benefits derived from their integration in the social, economic, cultural and political life of their communities. Of course, accessibility is right up Benetech’s alley and the focus of our Literacy program. In the U.S.,

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Content is available in Arabic, French, and English, and it adheres to Lebanese school curriculum to ensure students don’t get behind when in-person classes resume. As distance learning becomes more common, the long-term benefits of Tabshoura are incredible. The game-changing part of Nayla’s platform?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? People who can bridge networks – fill structural holes – stand to benefit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

If you have ever flown in an airplane, used electricity from a nuclear power plant or taken an antibiotic, you have benefited from a brilliant mistake. The model balances content, learning design, and participants. Brian Solis’s The End of Business As Usual and Brian Reich’s Shift and Reset. Schoemaker.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A CVA with a medical organization in Manitoba saw similar benefits of remote technology in her work: [Our volunteer] orientations are all online now and I don’t think I’ll ever go back… especially for their first kind of introduction. Better access to the eyeballs of younger people is a benefit noted by other volunteer managers.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2016

An effective email newsletter can help you promote events, fundraising campaigns, and your content. We're constantly figuring out new ways to package our newsletter content. Telling the stories of the people who benefit from your organization can be a really effective way to share your impact. Let us know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. He also warned that wisdom is not self-improvement, but more a sense of inner strength and knowing what matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. More here ). *

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

By following best practices like repurposing compelling content, focusing on progress and impact, and creating new connections, you can build a newsletter that your nonprofit’s supporters will look forward to. Repurpose Existing Content for Your Newsletter When coming up with ideas for newsletter content, you don’t have to start from scratch.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We make a huge effort to disseminate our news locally via radio partnerships, and other satellite partnerships, so that the people in the communities we serve are benefiting from our news first. We sell our content to mainstream and other media organizations all over the world. It was what I thought would be my dream job.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. We've identified key NGO partners that we believe would benefit from our technical assistance and are developing our plans and identifying support to continue our work on Darfur this year. We've just launched Miradi.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

When you embrace this donor-based model of thinking about the needs and desires of your donors, fundraising gets easier. If your organization promotes literacy, partner with a bookstore. Make and market a t-shirt together, with your organization getting the profits and both you and the business benefiting from the marketing.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Your existing fundraising efforts can be structured into a model that attracts donors. What ongoing line items, especially those that require between $500-$2500 in annual funding, could benefit from a single donation? Will you link out to them (a preferred benefit of many sponsors)? It doesn’t just have to be events.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

For years, our extraordinary cohort of dedicated volunteer scanners has provided Bookshare with most of its new content. This past year, we’re getting most of our content directly from top publishers: high-quality digital content for free.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning.

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