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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. That’s the Caltech advantage! I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

His projection was that students were going to save more money on textbooks after three semesters of Flat World operations than investors had put into it. The Bookshare team is excited because we can take these books and do all the accessibility work because they are under an open license! I think they are onto something.

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Unlocking Technology-for-Good Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This keeps us focused on projects that offer the greatest social impact for the resources invested. And that mission focus drives what differentiates the Benetech Labs approach to incubation of new projects from that of the typical for-profit incubator. The typical for-profit incubator has a funnel of startup teams.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

He is currently licensed in Illinois and Florida. 7) Kimberly Niezgoda Kimberly Niezgoda (linkedin.com/kimberly-auctioneer) is your go to licensed auctioneer specializing in charity/benefit/gala live auctions. She’s been a licensed auctioneer in Texas since 2016 and have since called hundreds of various types of auctions.

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Event Recap: Apps to Amp Up Your Recruitment and Admissions

Cloud 4 Good

Of course, Cloud for Good believes Salesforce is an incredible tool and can help universities communicate with their prospective students with the right message, on the right channel, at the right time. Track all event attendance throughout the student journey. Recruitment and admissions was a Phase 2 project for UAB.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds And, there were many projects that definitely fell under the RTF umbrella. I met a professor from Portugal who had a student who developed EasyVoice , software that makes it possible for someone who cannot speak to use Voice over IP via Skype to talk to people using a voice synthesizer.

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President’s Update - Spring 2012

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This President’s Update isn’t about our latest news, not about our newest projects or accomplishments. We’re not about completing a process, studying a problem, or conducting a pilot project as an end point. Not only do we write open source software, but the content we create is almost always available under Creative Commons licenses.