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APRIL 29, 2021

Whether it was trying to attend classes, apply for government benefits, or practice religion, many people were excluded from fully participating in their communities. Ellie Avis, a fellow in Josephine County, OR, launched a hotspot lending program that allows library patrons to bring their connectivity home.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. After all, they’re proud of their creations and would love to see them benefit disadvantaged people and communities, where regular market forces would fail to go. What’s next?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2011

public libraries and some nonprofits provide. How to Evaluate Your Digital Literacy Program Thursday, June 30, 11 a.m. Analyst at the Colorado State Library and a BTOP grant recipient, will discuss. they track, and how this data will benefit their libraries beyond the grant. To bolster their efforts, the.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 23, 2021

More organizations realized the benefits of being data-driven in the last year—how it fuels business value such as improved performance, competitive advantage, increased productivity, as well as stronger employee retention and customer satisfaction. Grow the must-have, base-level skill: Data literacy. Courtney Jacobsen. See Figure 2).

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Tableau

OCTOBER 23, 2021

More organizations realized the benefits of being data-driven in the last year—how it fuels business value such as improved performance, competitive advantage, increased productivity, as well as stronger employee retention and customer satisfaction. Grow the must-have, base-level skill: Data literacy. Courtney Jacobsen. See Figure 2).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. We named this library Bookshare because it was created with an army of crowdsourcing volunteers, many of them blind people themselves, who scan the books using optical character recognition.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world? For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. Martus Desktop 4.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions. For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2009

Nate extols the environmental and practical benefits of virtualization. Brenda loves the Pulaski County Public Library's Literacy Bell, a simple way to celebrate children's literacy. Brenda loves the Pulaski County Public Library's Literacy Bell, a simple way to celebrate children's literacy.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Together they toiled in a library basement—the newly arrived with little knowledge of English and computers to create vibrant slide presentations about things they love, birthday cards for their children, and even résumés. Digitunity’s vision to close the technology gap.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Together they toiled in a library basement—the newly arrived with little knowledge of English and computers to create vibrant slide presentations about things they love, birthday cards for their children, and even résumés. Digitunity’s vision to close the technology gap.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Bookshare Hits 100,000 Members Boy reading at a computer with teacher in the background.Since the beginning of 2009, we’ve tripled the number of people with disabilities Bookshare is serving with our accessible library of ebooks. Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. As the first librarian to host it, Karin Bricker, library manager for youth and outreach services at Mountain View Public Library, had to overcome some initial skepticism.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Users get one lesson per day for free, but if they want access to more lessons and the full library of songs (or if they want to learn multiple instruments), they need to sign up for a Premium or Premium+ subscription, with pricing starting at $19.99 “We want to make musicality to be as common as literacy,” Thür said.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

This project is a great resource for libraries to share with patrons. San Francisco libraries have varying hours and might not always be open. Library staff can tell patrons to use this service when the library is closed or if all the computers are in use. Bond & Me. Managing Finances. Image 1: Caravan Studios.

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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 21, 2014

information on low-cost computers and digital literacy training brings. We designed this program to offer schools and nonprofits the maximum benefit without the administrative burden. Libraries can offer access to underserved patrons such as the elderly and disabled. national nonprofit focused on eliminating the digital divide.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2016

On August 18, learn about the ins and outs of using cloud office productivity tools, the benefits and limitations, and get help deciding whether your organization should make the switch. What Can Libraries Count? Clear up the cloud. Training Your Staff on Technology: TechSoup Resources. Be a better trainer. Get a grip.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec gives a lot back to the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup — See what organizations like yours are saying about their donated Symantec products. Symantec also has an abundance of other corporate social responsibility efforts going on as well.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. The software applications WordQ + SpeakQ provide writing assistance and speech recognition help for people with disabilities, new language learners, and those who are learning literacy.

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Towards Data Science

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Among other benefits, I like that it works well with semi-complex data schemas. It can be a topic for another story but I wrote about some of them before, i.e. joblib library [12] Data infrastructure as code Infrastructure as code (IaC) is a popular and very functional approach for managing data platform resources.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2016

Earlier this month, the FCC explained why Lifeline expansion matters : "Internet access has become a pre-requisite for full participation in our economy and our society, but nearly one in five Americans is still not benefiting from the opportunities made possible by the most powerful and pervasive platform in history."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2016

Earlier this month, the FCC explained why Lifeline expansion matters : "Internet access has become a pre-requisite for full participation in our economy and our society, but nearly one in five Americans is still not benefiting from the opportunities made possible by the most powerful and pervasive platform in history."

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

Hold an annual fundraising event with readings and signings by local writers to benefit a literacy program at a school, nonprofit or library, or to give a grant to an aspiring local writer. Pay your employees the best wages and benefits you can. Donate to your community. Help your community donate.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

Americans who have an annual income at or below 135 percent of the federal poverty level or who qualify for other benefits such as food stamps can qualify for the Lifeline Program. They will create and promote digital literacy programs. Every Public Library in the United States. nonprofit organizing effort advocating for U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Working on a series of research studies on the benefits of games. What do libraries look like in the future? Emphasis is on digital literacy. New learning environment puts games at the center. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. What does the next generation of learning environments look like?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

" In other words, the benefit in exchange for sensitive personal information has to be really good. " If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

" In other words, the benefit in exchange for sensitive personal information has to be really good. " If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

One huge benefit of technology is that these are no longer cash-only events. The apps are typically designed around the needs of the cause, like creating a pet-finding app for an animal shelter or a library app for an English literature association. During this event, a group of developers works together to create an application.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Is Spanish more your bag?

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Reading challenge Issue a community-wide reading challenge this spring to encourage literacy in your community. Encourage participants to take advantage of your local public library and get reading! This spring fundraising idea benefits both your cause and the dogs getting some extra attention.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Bookshare , our accessible online library, has reshaped the accessibility field and now serves over 250,000 members (the majority of whom are US students) with a collection of nearly 220,000 (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest repository of its kind. Fast-forward six years.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

[Cover Images: Little Brown Ink, First Second/Macmillan] Graphic novelsa term interchangeably used with comic booksare particularly popular among young children still building their literacy skills. Comics as an art form regressed, says Eva Volin, supervising children’s librarian at the Alameda Free Library in California.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests. I believe in the power of books to change the world.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Lisa Libraries. They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Guitar Center.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

Dale, now 45, believes urban thorn forests, which can mature in just 10 years, provide climate benefits that will blossom for decades: providing shade, preserving water, reducing erosion, and soaking up stormwater. A 40-acre planting at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge on the Gulf Coast reveals how quickly this can happen.

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