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Robin Seaman, Agent of Inclusion

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In addition, the quality was often not good enough to deliver fully equal access to educational books. You probably know that Robin was a pioneer in the ebook industry, but you probably don't know how she applied those experiences and her extensive network to the cause of advancing global literacy. We thought the publishers might help.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

A participant from Virginia working in education explained: Because of COVID and the lockdown, our population of 18-to-24-year-olds exploded in the last six months… We’ve never had this many young adults in our program before. English as a second language. Failure to engage the digital immigrants.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. All students around the world have access to rich and varied educational content. • I believe in the power of books to change the world.

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Words to Avoid—2023 Edition

Candid

As always, this is not meant to be a definitive (or complete) list of dos and don’ts. While we are many years removed from the original definition being commonplace, it is still a word we should use mindfully due to its negative connotations. When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.”

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Solutionary Women: Mei-ying Ho

Have Fun - Do Good

We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. Our political education starts on a very basic level by identifying the systems of oppression that we live under here in the United States. It’s been a really incredible ride.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.

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52 Nonprofit Event Ideas That People Will Love

Neon CRM

Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event.

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