Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Campaigns & Ideas. Social Media Post Ideas. Giving Tuesday Campaigns & Ideas. That’s why it’s important to plan ahead, set goals, and brainstorm some Giving Tuesday campaign ideas several weeks or months in advance. Here are some of our favorite campaign ideas to help you along the way. Virtual Fundraising.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 2, 2017

From eBooks to webinars, there’s a heaping handful of other ways to raise money online. 7 Ingenious Fundraising Ideas to Raise Money Online . The post All-In-One Nonprofit Marketing Library (Link Roundup) appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. Don’t just stop there, though. Let’s take a look. How to Launch Your Nonprofit Website .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities. said Stevie. Thanks Stevie!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

What I liked most was the idea to create a body of knowledge that’s truly helpful to prospective and emerging social entrepreneurs. When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea. copyright law.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

With technology improving, virtual and hybrid events rising in popularity, and new event ideas coming to fruition, it can be hard to determine the best fundraising event that aligns with your audience, goals, and overall mission. 100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try Out. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

You can still buy The Art of Relevance as a paperback, ebook, or audiobook--but you can also read any chapter, any time, online. Or how Felton Thomas fought the library union to make the Cleveland Public Library matter more. I do it for three reasons: It makes it easier for people to share and spread the ideas in the book.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

But for an organization like Benetech, naming them as part of our values and putting them into action has led to better ideas and stronger products. Everything would be automated, everyone would get what they needed and our idea would help change the world! The problem: our idea wouldn’t address the real challenge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people who are blind or otherwise disabled when it comes to reading print. I'm writing this blog post because one of the senior people at AAP suggested it would be a good idea to share this information with the world. copyright law. We also met with the authors.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Thus, a top recommendation for increasing participation in the programs includes an organization rallying its internal staff around the idea first. This includes but is certainly not limited to, free eBooks, checklists, templates, case studies, and other in-depth guides.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2022

Promo.com offers an extensive library of footage for videos so that you can make a polished video for social media and other sources. Tools like BombBomb , Promo.com , and Camtasia take the technical work out of producing quality videos. BombBomb helps create personalized, stunning email videos that you can send to donors. Give us a try.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. " Check out the 12 Trends, from Personalized Video Thanking to Ebooks to Digital Fundraising Staffing! Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of February 20th).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS. Of course, the Librarian of Congress has pronounced on this topic already!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The miracle of ebooks What if we had the ability to overcome these accessibility barriers, barriers that affect most of humanity, not just people with identified disabilities, wouldn’t we have the moral obligation to act? We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2014

Here are 7 ideas to consider when mixing in stories to your non-profit’s donor stewardship. I don’t know about you, but as a kid I loved storytelling time at the local library and at school. Read more about storytelling for the sake of donor retention and what other npExperts have to say in the new eBook all about donor retention! .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

As many of you know, I've been working for the past year+ on a book about visitor participation in museums, libraries, science centers, and art galleries. There are projects from Vietnam to Australia to the Netherlands to the US, from libraries, museums, science centers, zoos, state parks, and art centers. Want to buy a book ?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I have good news: For $5 million a year, we can build a global library that provides tens of millions of people around the world who are blind, low vision, or dyslexic free access to books that will work for them. Our Bookshare library has over 550,000 books that have been delivered digitally over 10 million times. We have the ebooks.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

My primary goal is to get the ideas out there, not to make money, so if someone wants to read the book online for free, that's great. Also, my whole career is predicated on a structure where I give away ideas on the blog and then people hire me for money. available for free at your library and on the web. And that shocked me.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. Canadians with disabilities will now have access to Bookshare through their public libraries and the Canadian National Institute of the Blind. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

I could always count on Gerry to come up with a breakthrough idea that made something I dreamed about doing become a reality. When Calera’s board vetoed my idea of a new product: a reading machine for the blind, I was distraught. I was in love with this idea, and Gerry knew it. I went to Gerry with the idea for Bookster.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The first was the ebook. Fundamentally, the Arkenstone Reader allowed blind people to create their own personal ebook as a text file that could be read in something like Microsoft Word. These formats now underpin the ebook industry of today. The Bookshare breakthrough depended on three innovations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Bookshare Hits 100,000 Members Boy reading at a computer with teacher in the background.Since the beginning of 2009, we’ve tripled the number of people with disabilities Bookshare is serving with our accessible library of ebooks.

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