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. CityOptions The best idea we received last year for a new project is getting underway! and James L. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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NTEN

JANUARY 26, 2021

Knowing how much employee and volunteer time is spent on projects and priorities equips leaders to be more strategic with their decisions, ensuring that every dollar goes further. Maintain Government Grant Eligibility. Government funding can be a valuable source of operational revenue. Overhead projections. Conclusion.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of government, DEI, education, arts, health, cultural institutions, and annual reports for corporate communications. Excellence – Website for Government.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

A few months ago, I attended Microsoft Citizenship's YouthSpark Connection event and heard first-hand from recent high school graduates about how dire the need for digital literacy is. Defining Digital Literacy. But first, what exactly is digital literacy? " The Role of Libraries. The Role of Schools.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2011

Technology has revolutionized business, but bringing those breakthrough developments to government, education and the nonprofit sectors can take 5, 10, even 15 years. We use technology to create products and projects that serve humanity where the market will fail to go because they offer modest financial returns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

But, everyone can raise their data literacy, especially visualization. So, as I curate resources on this topic, I was excited to discover Rahul Bhargava – a data nerd who writes the Data Therapy Blog for the MIT Center for Civic Media. .” Why this resource? To create change, data must lead to action.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

With shrinking budgets, providing increased access to the Internet and training for computer literacy can be particularly challenging for libraries and public computing centers. read more.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

" Local humor aside, the project is exciting: 31 public parks in San Francisco will get free Wi-Fi for at least two years. The fact that San Francisco, TechSoup's home base city, is working toward this goal opens up exciting possibilities for digital inclusion projects. Other Corporate Digital Inclusion Projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

SocialCoding4Good We are very excited about our SocialCoding4Good project, one of our Benetech Labs initiatives, which is working to increase the engagement of the technology sector with social good initiatives beyond just the scope of our own programs. billion poor and unbanked. Martus Desktop 4.5 and Mobile Martus 1.2

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 15th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Jan 24 - 25.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. But, we still have to protect our users from attacks from many repressive governments around the world. Dave suggested we rename our idea Martus, the Greek word for “witness.”

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

PADI AWARE Community Grants are open to fund projects that align with PADI’s Blueprint for Ocean Action particularly for coral reef restoration, climate resiliency, and Marine Protected Areas. Grant funds are made available across a variety of categories, based on donor intent and the guidance of our Governing Committee.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

What about literacy and education? Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology. Governments creating tax policies and organizational structures to encourage capital for and the formation of social enterprises.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

Ideas include financial literacy training, fundraising discussions, or a presentation about a political or economic issue that affects your organization. There is almost always a major issue looming, be it the impending loss of a large funder, the shift in government interest away from (or to!) The big picture.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Financial literacy is an area where “fake until you make it” doesn’t apply. Income types that are unique to nonprofits include grants, donations, endowment funds, and government funding. . Do you have large sums of funding in an endowment fund or designated for a specific project? Endowments and designated gifts. The Treasurer.

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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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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. Our current model mainly depends on government and foundation support enabling us to provide free library services to members.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

They will create and promote digital literacy programs. In addition to NTEN's fellowship project, NTEN's March 2015 edition of its quarterly journal, Change, is devoted largely to digital inclusion. federal government action toward broadband adoption , like the proposed Lifeline broadband expansion.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2012

When you prepare your budget, include technology-related expenses that you will incur to carry out the project. Let’s assume you plan to start an educational program to help children with literacy. Businesses often offer a discount on their products for nonprofits and government agencies.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 3, 2010

You need to locate an agency interested in funding your project, but where do you start? Grants.gov is a clearinghouse for information on grant opportunities for all grants offered by the United States government. To search for government grant opportunities, follow these 5 steps. They are not helping you or your organization.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Dd co-founder and executive director Emily Jacobi recently showcased some of Dd's projects at an event hosted by the Center of Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) in Berkeley, California. These principles are shown to be highly effective in development projects around the world. Want to learn more?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

government to close the real prison and the other to encourage public discourse. Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. government???s

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

Martus is used around the world by human rights workers, attorneys, journalists, government officials and others who need to protect their data and the people they work with. The MacArthur Foundation provided key support for the project by not only financing our work, but also funding computer literacy training for NHRC staff.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

Dawn Briskey,orgSource Vice President of Client Services frequently collaborates with Kevin on tech projects. If you don’t have a data governance strategy , a technology assessment can be a good way to launch this process. Hopefully, a crisis is not in your future. But failure to use data effectively can also be dangerous.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

The study reveals that current leaders in the local nonprofit sector believe the skills most needed in the nonprofit workforce are financial literacy, communication (verbal and writing skills), knowledge of laws pertaining to the nonprofit sector, information technology, volunteer management, and donor cultivation. Washington, D.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

Monikers like “maven,” “ninja,” “wizard,” and others can sometimes diminish the real value and hard work people bring to a project, making them seem abstract and mystical. When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” Illiterate.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

In time, the project became a free national computer donation service that accepts donations of working used computers and supplies them to nonprofits, schools, and other agencies that want to refurbish them and provide them to disabled and disadvantaged people. Find our more on this at Patrick Duggan's blog post about WordQ and SpeakQ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Emphasis is on digital literacy. Funded a project to work with state of Michigan - requirement for high school graduation is that all students have an online learning experience. Interesting projects that are not the historical type. Not only those that apply metrics but need to rethink them. Microsoft Corporation.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

During the last several years, TechSoup's Storymakers project has been focused on highlighting the most compelling nonprofit videos. government initiative that aims to bring accessible broadband access to residents of low-income housing throughout the U.S. Communications and Marketing. ConnectHome is another new U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects. It has to be governed by Web2.0 - kids will be making media. It starts in the home. Parents are facing challenges.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2022

Forum One received 10 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for Canopus (platinum), Centauri (gold), and Arcturus (rose gold) across the categories of government, health care services, diversity & inclusion, art, nonprofit, education, and financial services. Canopus – Website for Government. The Harry S.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Do you love ladies in literature? Sheroes in the Sciences. Gertrude B. Wangari Maathai was a renowned environmental political activist in Kenya.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 2, 2014

A recent Pew Internet & American Life Project study. They need access to sign up for a healthcare plan and enroll in other government benefits. knowledge to enroll in government programs and receive benefits. ” Another reason for low Internet adoption is a lack of digital literacy skills. But as educators and.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

It's not just technologists or data experts, but also community members, activists, and government officials. One technical issue is the use of PDFs on Oakland's city website (nonprofits, other government websites, and many other organizations do this as well). be involved in civic hacking.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Do they like those one-time projects, those capital projects where you can build that outdoor classroom or,” you know, “purchase that mobile mammogram unit for your hospital and be able to create impact for years to come? Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? What do you believe would be the impact?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

He spoke about FCC's expansive efforts to increase "digital literacy" for both individuals and small businesses. However, Simmons highlighted one area where Missouri farmers might benefit from government support. While broadband access is prevalent in most large urban areas, many cannot afford the $30 or more monthly charge.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Fluency with digital tools for communication, collaboration, and decision-making leading to efficient and effective governance. Receptivity to change and innovation, keeping organizations competitive and relevant in an evolving business environment. The global perspective that comes from growing up in an interconnected world.

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