Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. As one of our partners from an LGBT group in Uganda noted last year, “If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.” We must help ensure that every report of abuse is a tool for justice.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

What about that literacy initiative, or the Jobs Program? Need to focus on Elder Care? Does your disaster relief team have the private space to plan and the public tools to get out important bulletins?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services. If you work with a homeless services agency, library, or other social service agency that provides services to this group, you need to connect to this work!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Although the members of our board were impressed with all three nominees, they awarded Carrie Karnos of Palo Alto, CA, the 2006 Veale Award for her work with an accessible online library called Bookshare. Notice that it is because of Carrie's work that almost 10 percent of Bookshare's library exists.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Privacy has always been an important topic in digital literacy. Scott Pinkelman, digital literacy innovation specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia , recently presented on this important topic at the Digital Shift online conference. And when websites or services rely on big data, certain groups are at a disadvantage.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

These companies were happy to take all of the concessions offered by the disability activist groups and wanted to remove all of the compromises made by the corporates. The goal of this on-line library is to stop the scanning of textbooks for K-12 education - a job which is now done by parents, teachers and students.

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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. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. His disability, however, does not stop him from flying through his homework assignments.

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

Pew reports that the groups least likely to want to use the Internet are senior citizens, disabled people, monolingual Spanish speakers, adults with less than a high school education, and those living in households earning less than $30,000 per year. The Kansas City Public Library System will also have a role in this work.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. As the first librarian to host it, Karin Bricker, library manager for youth and outreach services at Mountain View Public Library, had to overcome some initial skepticism.

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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

MARCH 24, 2014

How does your library address questions about Internet safety? essential skill to include in basic digital literacy instruction, but. will share best practices for teaching Internet safety in group and. individual settings to patrons in public libraries and nonprofit. We will hear from the Monroe County Public Library.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The event not only served as a networking opportunity for these two groups, but also showcased eight social good apps already in progress. This project is a great resource for libraries to share with patrons. San Francisco libraries have varying hours and might not always be open. Bond & Me. Reporting Problems.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In the spring and summer of 2021, with funding from AmeriCorps, our research team held focus groups with volunteer administrators about their technology use in the pandemic. We held 33 virtual focus groups (via Zoom) with 181 CVAs in the United States and Canada. The quotes in this article all come from these focus group conversations.

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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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

information on low-cost computers and digital literacy training brings. Broader Reach: It’s available to underserved Americans of all age groups and family. Libraries can offer access to underserved patrons such as the elderly and disabled. national nonprofit focused on eliminating the digital divide. colleagues about it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Local representatives from nonprofits, schools, and community groups convened in downtown San Francisco for Microsoft's YouthSpark Connection event. Libraries Building Bridges. TechSoup for Libraries surveyed and interviewed organizations that received Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) funding.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When you work at a nonprofit or public library, it might feel like you constantly need to learn new skills to stay on top of emerging technology and adoption. TechSoup's Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. Learn how to implement and conduct effective tech training for your nonprofit or library staff!

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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. Starlee follows the group of students who portray Reagan and his advisors in the Oval Office.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, education is essential to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Hear what other nonprofits and libraries are saying in our Community Forums. It provides you with many options you can adapt to a broad range of age groups and special needs. September's here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Yohannes Gebregeorgis "Moved by the lack of children's books and literacy in his native Ethiopia, Yohannes Gebregeorgis established Ethiopia Reads , bringing free public libraries and literacy programs to thousands of Ethiopian children."

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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. Specifically, your silent phase should be focused on six key groups.

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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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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Katherine Stephans is the partnerships and communications manager at Library For All. She said she had one of those sparks working with Library For All, inspired by the passion of Library For All’s co-founders. “We Library For All co-founder and CEO Rebecca McDonald was living in Australia when tragedy struck Haiti in 2010.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. It will also be used for digital literacy classes, and perhaps for ESL classes. Windows MultiPoint Server. is a thin client or shared resource computing. Intended Use of the New MultiPoint Server System.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

After all, you’ll be going to multiple locations and drinking alcohol with a large group. This may actually be completed as a peer-to-peer-style fundraiser, where a group of students holds a car wash on behalf of the organization without direct oversight.

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Neon CRM

MARCH 21, 2025

Team fundraising (also called group fundraising) is what strength in numbers looks like for nonprofits. When a group like this joins together, theyre widening your organizations pool of potential donors by spreading the word among their networks and asking their friends, family, and colleagues to donate. What Is Team Fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

What do libraries look like in the future? Emphasis is on digital literacy. Grantees - like Global Kids - found the right group to fund. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. What does the next generation of learning environments look like? How do those learning environments impact institutions?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

Gentle Carousel also has a literacy program called Reading Is Magic that brings the horses into schools, libraries, and at-risk youth programs. While the Gentle Carousel horses might be some of the most popular, here are a few other animals associated with libraries and nonprofits to learn from: Elsie the Library Cat (St.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

Pamela Clark began New Heights Educational Group in 2006, as part of a lifelong commitment to education. " New Heights Educational Group is designed to be one-stop shop for all education needs. New Heights, by promoting literacy through a wide range of programs, has produced radical results. Taking Education to New Heights.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

" If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum. Over the last few years, TechSoup has been curating resources to help nonprofits and public libraries teach online security and privacy skills to their communities.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

This is what can happen if your team is using general AI prompts on GPT4, the output will seem unique but it will be an average response that many other groups may get. When, in fact, it was a fairly common outfit and kind of embarrassing when you end up on a stage in that situation. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

" If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum. Over the last few years, TechSoup has been curating resources to help nonprofits and public libraries teach online security and privacy skills to their communities.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. I'm thrilled at the forward motion groups like the National Digital Inclusion Alliance and others have supported this year and think that 2016 is looking like a momentous time when it comes to policy change.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. What if you’re a U.S.

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