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Route 66 Literacy Beta Users

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Route 66 Literacy began its first beta at Community Association for Rehabilitation, Inc. We were delighted by the feedback from the users and the C·A·R staff about the results, and we're planning to press ahead to raise money to take this project to the next stage. C·A·R) in January, here in Palo Alto, California.

Literacy 100
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Everywun Wants Your Clicks

Robert Weiner

The article makes this sound like a new idea, but The Hunger Site (and their later projects for breast cancer, children’s health, literacy, rain forest protection, and animal rescue) has been doing this since 1999. The San Francisco Chronicle published an article about everywun.com , a new click-to-give site.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Many of our projects turn on legal questions, and our attorneys are a core part of figuring out solutions that will have real positive impact on society. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue.

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You can finally buy Lego’s Braille Bricks

TechCrunch

Now the company has made its Braille Bricks, a learning toy for children with visual impairments (or who just want to learn the script) available for purchase by anyone who wants them.

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American India Foundation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I had just read a paper about the LINCOS project in Central America, so this was fresh in my mind. This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Second, they focus on project based learning, where students use the computers to complete projects.

India 100
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She also explained that the illiterate poor women she serves are more committed to literacy for their children than for themselves. Rory Stear, the head of Freeplay Energy, met with Nicholas Negroponte of MIT's Media Lab about their $100 laptop project.