Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms. In Authors Guild v. copyright law). The Authors Guild then appealed the ruling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

In 2005 Facebook was only open to college students and professors, Twitter didn’t exist, and the iPhone was still in concept mode. Global Giving 2005. National Audubon Society 2015. National Audubon Society 2005. United Nations 2015. United Nations 2005. GlobalGiving 2015. globalgiving.org.

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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. . First Book. The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants. First Book.

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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. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Earlier today, I attended the American Foundation for the Blind’s (AFB) National Leadership Conference in Chicago where I received the 2013 Migel Medal. He started Computerized Books for the Blind the year before we started Benetech, and became one of our earliest partners. It was named for the first board chair of AFB, M.C.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As the operators of Bookshare in the USA, which was made possible through a great exception in our copyright law here, we would love to make all of our books available to people with qualifying disabilities around the world. It’s expensive to make braille books. My core point: Don’t put up bureaucratic barriers to access.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

If you can buy a book, you can’t borrow it. Marrakesh is intended to end the book famine for people who can’t read regular books because of their disability. Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille.

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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. I’m not sure even the global scientists, engineers, and futurists have a full sense of where we’re heading with AI. Ashley Madison.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." s book " Hot, Flat, and Crowded " about the climate and geo-political reasons to change our approach to energy.). Global Energy Observatory ?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The goal is to collect 4 million actions (photos of hands raised, likes on their Facebook campaign page, etc) and present the collective actions to the United Nations Secretary General and the world donor community urging them to put girls’ education as their priority. The photo above is Keo Savon with me this summer in Cambodia.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

One of the cool things for me about visiting Majora in her offices in the South Bronx was signing her book of MacArthur Fellows: she’s been collecting signatures from all Fellow she meets! Her broader national goal notwithstanding, Majora remains deeply passionate about and involved in revitalization of the South Bronx.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Six key lessons surfaced from our interviews with more than 35 global nonprofits. Our Fellows should feel they’re working at a job, even if they already have a job or are a full-time student,” says Pandey. Holding volunteers accountable for personal and organisational outcomes is critical to Haiyya’s theory of change. “We

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

GivingTuesday is a movement to create a national day of giving , kicking off the giving season. And w e would like to spotlight a few in the TechSoup community who have joined us in championing this second annual national day of giving : InvestED has launched a volunteer and donation program specially designed around Giving Tuesday.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2008

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. I enjoyed giving my 20 minute talk on Bookshare.org and building a global library. More on him later as well.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. Students develop and run a business, gain confidence, academic support, and mentorship.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer. Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that all people deserve "the right to seek, receive and impart information." Thanks to Anna for saying yes, and for sharing her experiences!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. It also had bookshelves packed with books no one read. The library is much more than just a place to get books. More TechSoup Global Resources: The TechSoup Global Local Impact Map for international success stories.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Collaborative Conversations have been convened in client companies such as Genentech, NASA, The National Park Service at Yosemite, UCSC, and The Center for Interfaith Relations. The New New Inbox: How Email and Social Media Changed Our Lives , and previously The Smartphone Experiment Book-How to Select Your Smartphone in 5 Easy Steps.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

It isn't often that you can't wait to keep reading a book about genocide, but that is how it was while I was reading Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. The book is interspersed with personal anecdotes from Cheadle and Prendergast. has to say.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. In 2004, the United States passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , requiring schools to provide special education services to eligible students.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Games about the Sixth Extinction , the global food chain , lyme disease , and so much more. Along with a modest stipend, Game Plan will provide curriculum, online training, a supportive community, and the opportunity for museum youth to compete in a nation-wide game design challenge themed on the idea of resiliency. mmmooshme

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. That night I wrote an 8-page essay and emailed it to everyone in my address book called, "What Really Matters."

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. They’re calling it The Fog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Peace Fellows are graduate students who work with Advocacy Project 's community based human rights partners around the world. is an ongoing book and blog project that shares schoolyard stories -- both good and bad -- to help current student feel less alone in their social bewilderment. The GRO Foundation: Global Relief Outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2018

It was no surprise then, that the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), which runs the National Sex Assault Hotline, has reported a 338 percent increase in hotline traffic. Occasionally she will bring out the book herself during story time and she makes references to it in casual conversation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. Companies participate and get to use the Fair Trade Certified label when they open their books and demonstrate that they bought direct from the farmers and paid a fair price. our budget this year is $10 million.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Web Office tools: Address Book: Plaxo. Hiring people. Who Is Sick?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. His specialty: user testing. A move to Benetech’s quality assurance team was a great fit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. billion global internet users today – roughly 35% of the world’s population.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. Leading organisations like the UN are telling us unanimously that we need to act now with global systematic change in order to save the planet. It’s not just about institutional change.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 4, 2011

Program Associate, New Global Citizens. I watched the marching students below and mulled over that awesome responsibility, and, oddly enough, felt the dawning of a supremely foreign thought. comic book heroes propound the notion that "with awesome power comes awesome responsibility.". culture to a generation of Thai youth.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Our members envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. My friend and colleague, Adam Sterling, was a 21-year-old student at UCLA when he first heard about the genocide in Darfur, and then he was outraged and decided he had to act.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. Leading organisations like the UN are telling us unanimously that we need to act now with global systematic change in order to save the planet. It’s not just about institutional change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

According to the Corporation for National and Community Service , volunteering also has health benefits. Autumn 1999)" There are so many resources available to help you give time, money, skills and stuff, it could probably fill a phone book. Things: Find a Goodwill or public library near you to donate clothes and books.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Last month I posted about one of my favorite books this year, Women Who Light the Dark, by photojournalist, Paola Gianturco. She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. I am a photojournalist and have just published my fourth book, Women Who Light The Dark.

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