Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

That shortchanges Larry’s background: he was the key leader in the campaign to eliminate smallpox in India, cofounded the Seva Foundation and a couple of high tech companies, and was most recently running Google.org. I had no idea when I agreed to the mentor gig that there would be something like this I actually know something (a lot) about.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. Our Local Impact Map.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for seven years now. It made us think about ways we could bring good dependable low-cost computers to nonprofits and libraries. InterConnection is our Seattle based nonprofit refurbisher.

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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. Their support will help Room to Read extend its operations into new parts of India and reach over 20,000 children.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup. For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

My background is in campus organizing, and in helping college students connect with others working to create social change across perspective, issue, approach, and geography. Third, a pledge called " Bakul-Library " is definitely one of my favorite stories. Heather Cronk 1. Tell me about you. What's your background?

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Featured Photo: Students Create Digital Tools to Solve Problems by CDI Apps for Good. The Big Question.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. With Bookshare, our student members can access and read the books they need—in the classroom, at home, and on the go—and have a fair opportunity to succeed at school just like their peers without disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I have good news: For $5 million a year, we can build a global library that provides tens of millions of people around the world who are blind, low vision, or dyslexic free access to books that will work for them. Benetech has already solved this problem for students in the United States. This one does. We can scale quickly.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Thanks to the support of the EB team, we now have direct access to digital versions of many important reference series, along with the ability to provide these books to people with qualifying print disabilities in Canada, the UK, India and all over the world! We have already gotten close on trade books: juvenile and teen literature.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what lots of nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured-IT to further their missions. Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. Photo: Ramakrishna Mission Students Home. Want to share.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

It also uses the NPSP as its CRM (constituent relationship management system) tracking interactions with donors, contractors, grantmakers, advisors, board members, volunteers, customers, and students. Problem: In years past, Hagar relied on an extensive library of Excel files to document contact with each client that would come seeking help.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured IT to further their missions. Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. Photo: Ramakrishna Mission Students Home. spanhidden.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy. And much more… Washington, D.C.

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