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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!

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According to his mom, this experience is common to children with Cerebral Palsy. When our team last caught up with him, he was a busy student at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, rejoicing in his ability to read independently and reach his full potential.

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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

NTEN

Last year, as jobs, schools, government services, social gatherings, and everyday tasks moved online, there blossomed a growing recognition that digital access and skills are critical in our society and should be a universal human right.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

September 30, 2021 Charitable giving by affluent Americans in 2020 averaged $43,195, a 48 percent increase over $29,269 in 2017, a report from Bank of America and Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy finds. Based on a survey of 1,626 U.S.

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup

Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Doing a Data Dive to Find Data About Children and Families. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Strengthening the Capacity of Female University Dropouts. Monday, May 1, 2017. Tuesday, May 2, 2017.

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Change from the Inside: A Conversation with COSI

Museum 2.0

COSI is a hands-on science center in Columbus, Ohio. For example, we’re actively pursuing outreach opportunities and connections with the community, the local tech industry, universities. I think, sadly, that we all know the answer. They do a lovely job explaining their presence on social media sites. I was blown away.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

Programs like this often add an array of useful freeware software to their AT computers like GCompris , Childsplay , and the Zacbrowser , which is an Internet browser specifically designed for autistic children. Touch the Future.