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. Bernie was represented last night by Marie Young of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. said Stevie. Thanks Stevie!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. But what about everybody else?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

The HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) is a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created (with help from Google ) a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Consequently, it is reasonable for the Libraries to retain both the text and image copies. in addition to the text?only

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NTEN

APRIL 29, 2021

Cleveland, OH: 2 positions (sponsored by The Cleveland Foundation). Ellie Avis, a fellow in Josephine County, OR, launched a hotspot lending program that allows library patrons to bring their connectivity home. Felicia Tillman, a fellow from Atlanta, formed partnerships to bring digital literacy training to uniquely sweet spaces.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, there are many just in the area of open source foundations: nonprofit organizations structured as social enterprises writing open source software for the benefit of society, with many examples in each of the five claimed areas.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2021

They hail from a wide array of institutions, including a food bank, city government, a refugee resettlement agency, multiple libraries, an adult literacy organization, and an organization that works with formerly incarcerated individuals. A special thank you goes out to our founding sponsor, Google Fiber.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Our financial story begins with Benetech’s forward thinking funders: our users, individuals, foundations, corporations, partners, and government agencies. For example, our 2008 major human rights grants from the Oak Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. students with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, which funds this magazine as well as eye research programs at universities across the United States. According to the Bookshare.org Web site, a $25 initiation fee and a $50 annual subscription "gives patrons access to a library of more than 30,000 books and 150 newspapers.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Grow the must-have, base-level skill: Data literacy. With that comes increased priority and urgency to provide resources and support that reduce the data literacy gap. Nearly everyone from HR and marketing to sales and customer support needs to have a solid foundation in data literacy to succeed in the modern workforce." (See

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Tableau

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Grow the must-have, base-level skill: Data literacy. With that comes increased priority and urgency to provide resources and support that reduce the data literacy gap. Nearly everyone from HR and marketing to sales and customer support needs to have a solid foundation in data literacy to succeed in the modern workforce." (See

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

The fund is being administrated by the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Founding donors to the fund include Google Fiber , the Illig Family Foundation, Sprint , Global Prairie , Polsinelli Law , and J.E. The Kansas City Public Library System will also have a role in this work. Dunn Construction. The City Of Reinvention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions. Based on my experience with the Sharing Foundation in Cambodia, I know how important it is for children in developing countries to have books to read in their own language.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation. Martus Desktop 4.5 and Mobile Martus 1.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Together they toiled in a library basement—the newly arrived with little knowledge of English and computers to create vibrant slide presentations about things they love, birthday cards for their children, and even résumés. At the time, many said that technology skills were a “nice to have” rather than a tremendous door to opportunity.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Together they toiled in a library basement—the newly arrived with little knowledge of English and computers to create vibrant slide presentations about things they love, birthday cards for their children, and even résumés. At the time, many said that technology skills were a “nice to have” rather than a tremendous door to opportunity.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2012

More than three-quarters of the nation's public libraries offer e-books, but most Americans don't know that this service is provided by their local library. Librarian Brenda Hough will discuss how library instructors are successfully navigating this sea of change. Want to help people learn how to use e-readers?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

A version of this post originally appeared on the TechSoup for Libraries blog. This raises some interesting questions for how nonprofits and libraries talk about the digital divide and how they advocate for public access technology and technology skills development. What About Nonprofits and Libraries? suggests just that.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Now her team is helping the organization build skills and community, fostering a strong Data Culture built on a foundation of governance. Proficiency: User education, measuring adoption and engagement, and increasing data literacy within your organization are important elements that require change management.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Now her team is helping the organization build skills and community, fostering a strong Data Culture built on a foundation of governance. Proficiency: User education, measuring adoption and engagement, and increasing data literacy within your organization are important elements that require change management.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The marriage of refurbishment and accessible technology started in the early 1980s with the founding of the National Cristina Foundation. It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. This nonprofit has been running for over 20 years.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. While social media as a volunteer recruitment tool has been a popular topic recently, TechSoup flipped the equation on its head a bit.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2016

Join TechSoup on August 23 for a tour of training resources available to help your nonprofit, library, church, and foundation staffers increase their technology literacy and grow their tech skills. What Can Libraries Count? Be a better trainer. Getting a Grip on Social Media Numbers. Get a grip. Get to Know GrantStation.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec gives a lot back to the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup — See what organizations like yours are saying about their donated Symantec products. Symantec also has an abundance of other corporate social responsibility efforts going on as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

MacArthur Foundation. What do libraries look like in the future? National Science Foundation. Emphasis is on digital literacy. It is also no small feat to get traditional foundation board to agree to fund game initiatives. Each funder gave an overview gave an overview of their program. Two years ago.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. " Waukesha Public Library. An increasing number of public libraries are discovering TechSoup donations, but few are maxing them out like Waukesha Public Library in Wisconsin.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Last month, the radio show This American Life ran a fascinating episode called " Kid Politics ," which starts with a long segment about the Air Force One Discovery Center immersive experience at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. While I tend to agree with Dan, I suspect that school boards across California may not share our enthusiasm.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Foundations can streamline funding development and partnerships by creating a grant submission and approval process with Box. Its employees use Box to share digital asset libraries and collaborate with third-party vendors. Grameen Foundation : This global microfinance nonprofit improved collaboration across four continents with Box.

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

For example, say you wanted to run a capital campaign to buy a new building for your literacy organization; your feasibility study process might look like this: Define your goal: Your project aims to raise $300,000 to purchase a new building to hold a library. Our goal is to raise $200,000 to bring this vision to life.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

With the US Golf Foundation reporting that 37.5 The apps are typically designed around the needs of the cause, like creating a pet-finding app for an animal shelter or a library app for an English literature association. This is an excellent option for getting young people involved in their community while encouraging literacy.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Awesome Foundation. New Earth Foundation. Cornell Douglas Foundation. Kellogg Foundation. Whole Kids Foundation. Emeril Lagasse Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

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. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places.

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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. Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

Today, the brand announces that its foundation has donated $70 million in monetary and in-kind contributions over the last fifteen years to a wide range of causes. It’s supported literacy by providing multicultural and bilingual books to low-income elementary schools. And she’s got the numbers to back it up.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This transition to the digital realm facilitated a brave new world of health advocacy, but it also magnified the digital divide that plagues society, exposing deep disparities in access to technology and digital literacy.3 16 AI and digital platforms are making health information more accessible and personalized.

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