Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It’s because our mission depends on a balanced intellectual property system that encourages innovation. After all, our IP system was set up precisely to balance the interests of society with those of creators. We are especially concerned that the IP system ensures that it’s both easy to serve disadvantaged communities and to innovate.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

National Forest Foundation. First Nations Development Institute. The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest climate fund, mandated to support developing countries raise and realize their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) ambitions towards low-emissions, climate-resilient pathways. National Forest Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

This is an immense victory for fair use as the basis of a balanced intellectual property system, and we, at Benetech, are delighted by it and by its tremendous positive implications for the public interest. For this IP system to work for all it’s critical that copyright exceptions such as fair use be defended as a laboratory for innovation.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Literacy, particularly from birth through 3rd grade, is their primary focus because reading skills form the foundation for all childhood learning. The National Education Association Foundation is a national nonprofit and philanthropic organization based in Washington, DC. Areas served: US. The NEA Foundation.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

VisionLink''s Role VisionLink customers are among those providing 2-1-1 services, from New York to Washington state, from Florida to Maine, and here in our own state of Colorado--and for many regional and metropolitan systems in between. 2-1-1 is an easy to remember phone number that connects individuals with resources in their community.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2014

You just need to master a few tech literacy skills, and come to grips with what most of the big challenges have in common." He's been a volunteer forum host at TechSoup for 10 years and in his current position as a network and systems administrator for a nonprofit federally qualified health center for 12 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Social media literacy and facility is a 21st century core capacity. (3) The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

The Northstar Digital Literacy Project has 33 questions, but only a few touch on safety and security. Stay Safe Online by National Cyber Security Alliance is a wealth of resources. is a great resource by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Common Sense Media offers online safety assessments for educators.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. It is proper etiquette in Vietnam to politely ask your age, nationality, and marital status on the first meeting. Jakarta, Indonesia-based ASEAN Foundation was launched in 1997 by leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

While visiting the country, I met with members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) who are using a growing collection of technology tools to confront reported human rights incidents. But the NHRC is developing an information management system that uses our Martus software to keep their data more secure.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

These tools can help organizations that work with individuals who have general writing concerns, English language learners, people with learning disabilities or physical handicaps in typing, people with dyslexia or recovering from strokes, and even those learning literacy and spelling. roundup on building a culture of accessibility.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

They will create and promote digital literacy programs. The organization's website has a great set of useful links , including a well-reasoned case for digital skills training in its free advocacy whitepaper, The Case for a Systemic Approach to Digital Skills. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

The school system had one of the worst high school dropout rates in the nation and a high level of crime per capita. She saw a tremendous need for literacy and outreach services, particularly to the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, where the aftereffects of Katrina were the most devastating. Libraries as Evacuee Resource Centers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The marriage of refurbishment and accessible technology started in the early 1980s with the founding of the National Cristina Foundation. They may also need screen magnifiers that are built in to Windows and other operating systems or they use specialized applications like ZoomText. national web site for Assistive Technology.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them. You know, with the Better Impact system, you fill out a profile on our website as a link, and then you move through the system.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

Additionally, labels like these can become even more confusing once you realize that both Ninja and Maven are software systems and tools, meaning people can be skilled at Ninja and Maven. When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” Illiterate. Latine / Latino / Latinx. Stakeholder.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. Mission Assets Fund is scaling up its unique Lending Circles program, a social loan program that enables low-income people who are outside the banking system to lend and borrow with each other with interest-free social loans.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. This system allows families to search through images taken post-earthquake in Haiti, and specify certain characteristics.

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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. I believe in the power of books to change the world. The ebook, as an intangible representation of the book, lends itself well to this different approach.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2012

More than three-quarters of the nation's public libraries offer e-books, but most Americans don't know that this service is provided by their local library. She has worked in training and education for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WebJunction, the Public Library Association, the Northeast Kansas Library System, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

National Science Foundation. Emphasis is on digital literacy. There won't be one system of assessment - and there different types of dispositions. The power of games have caused to rethink many things. How to begin to have conversations to understand it. New set of research methods for this. Two years ago. Microsoft Corporation.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2022

National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. Forum One worked with the NMAAHC team to design and launch the Talking About Race section of the website, extending our design system and inviting user experience to share relevant and engaging resources for diverse audiences. Farm to School Census.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We’re not going to give you a deep dive into the systems because every system has their own way, but there are things like Bloomerang and other systems that we’ll share that you can reach out. We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

Our political education starts on a very basic level by identifying the systems of oppression that we live under here in the United States. We see four primary systems of oppression that we need to address on a very basic level to get through to the subsequent systems.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education. They support activities and movements that are global or national in scope. Areas served: Texas-based organizations. Vermont Women’s Fund. Mary’s Pence.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education. They support activities and movements that are global or national in scope. Areas served: Texas-based organizations. Vermont Women’s Fund. Mary’s Pence.

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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! Explore the work of organizations like the National Geographic Society , Audubon , and The Mars Generation - their impact is out of this world.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Calvin Osborne, an attorney with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), underscored the urgency in improving broadband -- essentially fast Internet access -- to keep the US from lagging behind other nations. He spoke about FCC's expansive efforts to increase "digital literacy" for both individuals and small businesses.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

We have reality tours where we take people out to other parts of the world, kind of reverse Club Med, "get your butt off the beach and meet real people," see the development projects, the literacy campaigns, the women's groups, the political opposition parties, the trade unions, but focused on positive, build the next system kind of things.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. Both libraries and museums are (somewhat frustratingly) lumped with the K-12 public education system.

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