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. We’re honored to be included in this elite group of nonprofits known for their innovative approaches to tackling social problems.

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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. This is one reason why our Human Rights Field Team is supporting LGBTI rights groups from the Caribbean to the African regions with targeted Martus and capacity building trainings.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Developing an organizational plan that clearly defines your groups objectives is key to achieving long-term success and sustainability. For example, an organization with the primary mission of providing financial literacy courses and counseling for low-income families may add service areas such as providing housing or food.

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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

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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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

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2021

And, I’m so thrilled to welcome our next group of fellows, who I know will continue the fantastic work of our previous cohorts while adding their own creative touch to address their communities’ unique goals and needs.

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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

JULY 29, 2021

At Tableau, we have had a front-row seat to the rising need for data skills across all organizations, all communities, and groups. million students - and counting - have acquired data skills through our program. Students enrolled in the program have collectively spent more than 600 hours hands-on with Tableau.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2022

Despite data skills being the most in-demand skill in today’s (and tomorrow’s) job market, there’s still a data literacy gap. . Start building your data skills—for free—with the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. To fill this void, we created the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. . Data Literacy Basics.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The pandemic’s impact on chronic absence Chronic absence— missing at least 10% of school days in one academic year—is a significant driver of the low literacy and numeracy skills reflected in the KIDS COUNT data. The number of chronically absent students nearly doubled from 16% in the 2018–19 school year to 30% in 2021–22.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. We use technology today to help hundreds of thousands of students with disabilities succeed in school, as well as help human rights activists around the world document abuses and seek justice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

The amazing thing about serving 100,000 students right now is that our commitment to the U.S. Department of Education was to serve 100,000 students by the end of our five-year contract in late 2012. Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

It has been amazing to see the impact financial literacy can have on a person, and just how crucial financial literacy is on the future of our young people. One of the first classes I organized at the YW was for a group of young teenage mothers. There are no courses in our public school systems that teach students how to use a.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The edtech boom has focused primarily on students, but teachers are learners, too. The round included Tresmonos Capital, Novus Paradigm Capital and XA Network, along with angel investors like Carousell chief executive officer Quek Siu Rui, Glints co-founders Oswald Yeo and Seah Ying Cong and Grab Financial Group head Reuben Lai.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

According to a survey by the University of California at Santa Cruz , the number of working African American business owners fell more than 40% during the pandemic—a much steeper drop than other racial groups. Becoming a customer can help these businesses stay open and serve their communities’ needs, whatever they may be.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Community engagement: Nonprofits can support initiatives that engage the public in the news-making process, such as town hall meetings, citizen journalism projects, or community media literacy programs. Diversity and inclusion: Nonprofits can support initiatives that increase representation of underrepresented groups in journalism.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

The goal of this repository is to ensure that students with print disabilities have easy access to textbooks. 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. Many regulatory processes depend on consensus committees.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

That is incredible, considering how difficult it is to find videos, how unfiltered it is and how inaccessible it is for many students who have different learning abilities and learning levels,” said Gross. YouTube is the third-most-used website within schools, according to Matthew Gross , CEO and co-founder of Newsela. Video has to evolve.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

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. I was impressed and encouraged with the thoughtfulness and engagement of the chief executives in my small group.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Areas served: Worldwide. Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Kresge Foundation.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Image sourced from Tableau Student Ambassador Jason Khu’s The Tableau Desktop Workspace Interface Guide. . Image sourced from Tableau Student Ambassador Jason Khu’s The Tableau Desktop Workspace Interface Guide. . Option 1: Access a Tableau for Students License. Making Groups. Playlist Name (Groups).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

In 1989, a group of visionary Silicon Valley engineers and executives asked themselves a profound question: `Why couldn't the far-reaching power of the PC with voice synthesis be combined with scanning technology to create a usable, affordable reading machine for the blind?' Benetech's origins start with its Arkenstone project.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Image sourced from Tableau Student Ambassador Jason Khu’s The Tableau Desktop Workspace Interface Guide. . Image sourced from Tableau Student Ambassador Jason Khu’s The Tableau Desktop Workspace Interface Guide. . Option 1: Access a Tableau for Students License. Making Groups. Playlist Name (Groups).

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

At Tableau, we have had a front-row seat to the rising need for data skills across all organizations, all communities, and groups. million students - and counting - have acquired data skills through our program. Students enrolled in the program have collectively spent more than 600 hours hands-on with Tableau.

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OpenAI

JANUARY 31, 2023

While this resource is focused on educators, we expect our classifier and associated classifier tools to have an impact on journalists, mis/dis-information researchers, and other groups. course guidelines, honor code and policy updates, interactive tools, AI literacy programs).

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

I felt really humbled to be amongst a highly diverse group of both budding and seasoned grassroots activists. We drew information from Resource Media''s Seeing is Believing report, and explained how the language of pictures is universal - picture processing is an ability that we''re all born with, as opposed to reading literacy.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2024

Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, legacy systems, data literacy, and access to skills.

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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. Stay tuned.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

An initial survey to determine what the group, as well as the what the individuals hope to attain from the experience will help the volunteer manager ascertain where the best fit will be. Annette is a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at ASU.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment.

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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. Executive leadership needs to do more than just sponsor data communities and mandate data literacy.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Discovery Center is a one-hour simulation in which groups of students (grade 5 and up) role play in a realistic, interactive environment. The students are each given roles on one of three teams--the Oval Office, a military command center, and a press room. The topic is the invasion of Grenada. You will make history.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

A couple years ago I was working at a nonprofit, and I made a call to a small grassroots organizing group in Arkansas. We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. For every four monthly gifts of $25, we are able to enroll one student from that list into our Learning for Literacy program – empowering them with vital knowledge and skills to change their futures!

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