Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2011

Graduate student Maria Georgakarakou, who is blind, gave us a rave review for the Read2Go app which allows those with print disabilities to listen to books in the DAISY audio format. Maria also noted that students like herself are finding more scholarly books on Bookshare which expands her ability to research.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Black Cat Rescue is a no-kill cat rescue organization in Boston that strives to change those odds for black cats, who face unique obstacles when trying to get adopted. We're proud to work with Audubon on Halloween and beyond - check out the work Audubon is doing with EveryAction throughout the year. Black Cat Rescue. Born This Way Foundation.

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Literacy United States Boston Adopt 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.” You were born to do this!”

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Fundraising Jordan Los Angeles Texas 222

NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

The most surprising group to create, share and promote original content is middle and high school students. 2 Participatory Chinatown In this game, you're transported to Boston's Chinatown to view the development of new areas through the perspective of the varied citizens that make up their corner of the city.

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Game Impact Libya Social 88

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

As a kid, I was saturated by symphony performances and choral music. Anyone reading this blog that lives in the New England area may know that the symphony I was raised around is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Want to see what the Boch Center in Boston, MA has for a leadership program? Fast forward to 2017. Read about it here.

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Arts Generation Culture Giving 31

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

I have championed the recent Oakland Food Policy Assessment introduced by some amazing grad students at Cal, which lays out a very clear, thorough, and utterly achievable road map for food security in Oakland. Its general premise is to arrive at a point where 30% of Oakland's consumed agricultural products are grown locally.

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Green Oakland Oklahoma Los Angeles 41

Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2007

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. One day when we didn’t have the students, I was walking the floor with another staff member. But I grew up in L.A.

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Lesson Museum Music Classes 20