Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

My last stop in New Delhi was to visit the American India Foundation, which is the largest Silicon Valley/India foundation. To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading. SEChallenge a11y accessibility Bookshare crowdfunding CrowdRise Huffington Post print disabilities Reading Skoll Foundation veterans'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. Knight Foundation, our SocialCoding4Good initiative will kick off later this year. and James L. Route 66 is software that provides teachers (and non-teachers!)

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. This summer, we will have three students working on Bookshare software for our users underwritten by Google’s Summer of Code program. and that risk paid off. and that risk paid off.

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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. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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Tableau

AUGUST 9, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and further shifted what students need to succeed in today’s digital economy. Although digital competencies like computer literacy and data skills have grown in importance in recent years, the need for digital skills has never been greater. Career options matter for enrollment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. In the U.S., This post originally appeared on Benetech''s Blog.

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Tableau

JUNE 16, 2021

Students who master data skills will have an advantage in their future careers. Enterprises are increasingly becoming data-driven—and requiring data literacy skills for employees in every part of the organization. We commissioned research by Forrester Consulting to help better understand the data literacy gap. June 17, 2021.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Bridge the data literacy gap for students in academia. In my many years as a scientist, I mentored trainees in data analysis and witnessed frustration, anxiety, and even productivity loss in students who lacked foundational data skills. Schools and colleges are often ill-equipped to solve the problem of data literacy.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In fact, Tableau recently commissioned Forrester to investigate the data literacy gap, and according to The Great Data Literacy Gap: Demand for Data Skills Exceeds Supply , only 66% of surveyed academic decision-makers rated data literacy and skills as important for students to learn to graduate, compared to 81% of recruiters.

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Tableau

AUGUST 9, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and further shifted what students need to succeed in today’s digital economy. Although digital competencies like computer literacy and data skills have grown in importance in recent years, the need for digital skills has never been greater. Career options matter for enrollment.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In fact, Tableau recently commissioned Forrester to investigate the data literacy gap, and according to The Great Data Literacy Gap: Demand for Data Skills Exceeds Supply , only 66% of surveyed academic decision-makers rated data literacy and skills as important for students to learn to graduate, compared to 81% of recruiters.

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2022

Data skills are foundational in a digital world. The study, ‘ Building Data Literacy: The Key To Better Decisions, Greater Productivity And Data-Driven Organizations ’, found that despite increasing demand for data skills, inadequate training and investments have left business leaders with a false sense of security.

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2022

Data skills are foundational in a digital world. The study, ‘ Building Data Literacy: The Key To Better Decisions, Greater Productivity And Data-Driven Organizations ’, found that despite increasing demand for data skills, inadequate training and investments have left business leaders with a false sense of security.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. If your nonprofit is seeking funding, it’s critical to identify the foundations whose interests and funding priorities align with your own. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on. Mellon Foundation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Amira Learning aims to address this with an app that reads along with students, intelligently correcting errors in real time. In classrooms, a common exercise is to have students read aloud from a storybook or worksheet. In classrooms, a common exercise is to have students read aloud from a storybook or worksheet.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. Consider third grade student Brennan Draves. Brennan Draves and his mother, Lindsay Draves, at school. Martus Desktop 4.5

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Tableau

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Although most people are familiar with the current trend of growing amounts of data, there is a skills gap in data literacy - defined as the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data. To help address this demand we have developed two courses that provide foundational data skills for all learners.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Because of his lifelong commitment to education, Keyes founded the Education is Freedom Foundation , which provides college scholarships for hard-working young students. In over 20 years since its inception, the foundation has helped nearly hundreds of thousands of students find their path to higher education.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. Press Forward seeks to stop and reverse that trend.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

McLaren, in turn, learned what her son, a straight-A student, responds best to. The broader takeaway for McLaren was that traditional classrooms don’t serve all students due to learning and thinking differences. After all, an adaptive curriculum that changes based on a student’s emotional or educational state feels pretty sensible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

This fair use victory is crucial not only for our present work, but also for our social mission at large and for the future of our work under our Global Literacy program. With the leverage of technology and the foundation provided by well thought-out IP laws, we can inspire both economic growth and social good.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The UN Foundation created them to highlight what needs to be achieved by 2030 and track progress. Let’s say your organization advocates for high-speed internet access in rural areas, helping students of all ages achieve digital literacy and support quality education.

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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. students with print disabilities. and Catherine T.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

JMU had one of lowest totals of infected students among Virginia’s big publics. Lee Feinberg, a parent of a current JMU student, has been crucial to the success of the dashboard. . . “I I looked at it and said, ‘It’s good that they’re doing this, but it could be a lot better,’” said Feinberg, whose area of expertise is data literacy.

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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. During Arkenstone's 11 years, Benetech sold literacy products under the Arkenstone brand in more than a dozen languages to over 35,000 individuals in 60 countries. Matilda Ziegler Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

The Schwab Foundation hosted a wrap up session on Sunday with twenty of the social entrepreneurs attending the Forum. One corporate chief executive offered extensive in-kind support for our digital literacy enterprises that provide the disabled access to talking books and teach reading to teenagers and adults who are not yet literate.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For many students, these school closures could mean the end of their formal education. Content is available in Arabic, French, and English, and it adheres to Lebanese school curriculum to ensure students don’t get behind when in-person classes resume. Syrian refugees and Lebanese students learn for free. . . About the Authors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. Is that cool - the literacy school is green! Everyday Giving Blog.

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Tableau

JANUARY 24, 2023

Inspired by data viz competitions and their impact, I worked with the Jabar Digital Service (JDS) to launch their own Viz Games, called the Jabar Dataviz Competition as part of the Jabar Data Visualization Festival (JDVF) which was open to all local Indonesian professionals, public officers, and students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

We have an opportunity to receive a couple of OLPCs for our literacy program at our farming project (we school the kids of farmers who we train to farm the land, sell vegetables, proceeds go into micro loan fund.). If you don't want to donate through Facebook, here are some other ways to wish me happy birthday.

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Tableau

JANUARY 24, 2023

Inspired by data viz competitions and their impact, I worked with the Jabar Digital Service (JDS) to launch their own Viz Games, called the Jabar Dataviz Competition as part of the Jabar Data Visualization Festival (JDVF) which was open to all local Indonesian professionals, public officers, and students.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 8, 2022

For students, teachers, parents, and guardians across the nation, the arrival of August signals the end of summer vacation and the arrival of back-to-school season. From tissue boxes and hand sanitizer to markers and notebook paper, every classroom needs resources to support their students and that’s where you can help.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Just as a professional who takes a job abroad needs to immerse herself in the native tongue, businesses who value data literacy need ways to immerse their people in the language of data. . How to foster data communities and literacy. Data communities in a work-from-home world. Not everyone will reach the mountain top, and that’s okay.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / Redwood City, CA / $350. Council on Foundations / Miami, FL / $1,199. Alliance Management Institute (AMI).

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