TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Step , a mobile banking service aimed at teens , announced this morning it has raised $50 million in Series B funding after growing to over 500,000 users only two months after its official launch. “The average college student graduates with thousands of dollars of credit card debt. “Student loans are a big thing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor and Statistics estimated earlier this year that about 3 million veterans, or 14 percent of the total veteran population, had a service-connected disability. For veterans with visual impairments, traumatic brain injuries or other disabilities, reading standard print is difficult, if not impossible.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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. They may feel pressured to expand into areas valued by donors to secure funding.

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Tableau

AUGUST 9, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and further shifted what students need to succeed in today’s digital economy. Although digital competencies like computer literacy and data skills have grown in importance in recent years, the need for digital skills has never been greater. Career options matter for enrollment.

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Tableau

AUGUST 9, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and further shifted what students need to succeed in today’s digital economy. Although digital competencies like computer literacy and data skills have grown in importance in recent years, the need for digital skills has never been greater. Career options matter for enrollment.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

Microsoft is adding a new Reading Progress feature to Microsoft Teams, designed to help students improve their reading fluency. Reading Progress works by allowing students to record themselves reading a passage of text, and offering teachers the ability to assess accuracy rates, mispronunciations, and more. Image: Microsoft.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. This summer, we will have three students working on Bookshare software for our users underwritten by Google’s Summer of Code program. and that risk paid off. and that risk paid off.

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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. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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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. billion poor and unbanked.

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

million students - and counting - have acquired data skills through our program. In collaboration with Tableau, Pathstream developed a 5-month fully-online Data & Business Analytics Certificate that builds critical skills to connect college and career for non-traditional students. Eleanor Cooper , Pathstream CEO. To mention a few: .

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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

JUNE 8, 2015

Technology is playing an ever larger role in increasing respect for human rights and delivering better services, and we have two rare opportunities to lead world-class tech-for-good programs. Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2022

The study, ‘ Building Data Literacy: The Key To Better Decisions, Greater Productivity And Data-Driven Organizations ’, found that despite increasing demand for data skills, inadequate training and investments have left business leaders with a false sense of security. Build Your Data Literacy. Data Literacy for All.

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2022

The study, ‘ Building Data Literacy: The Key To Better Decisions, Greater Productivity And Data-Driven Organizations ’, found that despite increasing demand for data skills, inadequate training and investments have left business leaders with a false sense of security. Build Your Data Literacy. Data Literacy for All.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2020

Tyler Hahn, director of the Cherokee Public Library, told The Markup that many of the services he previously provided to the town’s residents have had to take new forms. The local public high school let students bring laptops home to use for their (voluntary) remote-learning program, but not hotspots, he said.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. Final Thoughts.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2021

Last year, as jobs, schools, government services, social gatherings, and everyday tasks moved online, there blossomed a growing recognition that digital access and skills are critical in our society and should be a universal human right.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. “We maybe had 8,000 users when we spoke to you, and a few months later we launched our mobile app.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

A few months ago, I attended Microsoft Citizenship's YouthSpark Connection event and heard first-hand from recent high school graduates about how dire the need for digital literacy is. Defining Digital Literacy. But first, what exactly is digital literacy? Additionally, some students don't have digital access at home.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

McLaren, in turn, learned what her son, a straight-A student, responds best to. The broader takeaway for McLaren was that traditional classrooms don’t serve all students due to learning and thinking differences. After all, an adaptive curriculum that changes based on a student’s emotional or educational state feels pretty sensible.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

This lack of literacy, too, hinders ex-prisoners’ ability to take advantage of government services, which often require online applications. ” Studies have shown that digital literacy can reduce recidivism , or relapse into crime. That’s what we’re trying to facilitate here.” ”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

we at Benetech were concerned that the Authors Guild’s arguments in their appeal would remove the legal authorization for the services that we provide, relegating people with disabilities to second-class status. copyright law, also known as the Chafee Amendment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 20, 2012

Ahmad Naboulsi , Master's Student of. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Click here to read Pat Lewis's "Research Friday: Financial literacy: understanding money for today’s activities and tomorrow’s security.". Public Administration. Welcome to Research Friday !

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The San Francisco-based edtech startup offers virtual-only, English language immersion for kids between the ages of four through 12, by combining a mix of different services from live tutors to gamification. The company’s active client base grew 350% year over year, currently at over 50,000 paying students. Students are clicking in.

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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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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Their programs are aimed at increasing digital literacy and helping people gain valuable tech skills to funnel into successful careers. They help hundreds of students every year and 96% of their classes consist of students who are people of color and 67% of their students identify as women.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

JMU had one of lowest totals of infected students among Virginia’s big publics. Lee Feinberg, a parent of a current JMU student, has been crucial to the success of the dashboard. . . “I I looked at it and said, ‘It’s good that they’re doing this, but it could be a lot better,’” said Feinberg, whose area of expertise is data literacy.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Those who envision what could be possible by having Benetech apply innovative technology to the areas of Literacy, Human Rights, and the Environment, and who enable us to explore new opportunities for creating social good. Department of Education that enables us to provide the Bookshare library services for free to all qualifying U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

I already have hope that innovation will come from a more diverse set of people, whether it’s in a hacker house for undergraduate women or a student-founded service that matches undergraduate students to nonprofits. Lowering friction feels like the mantra with which we all need to enter 2021.

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Tableau

JANUARY 24, 2023

Gandes Goldestan Business Intelligence Analyst Jabar Digital Service Sarah Molina January 24, 2023 - 8:29pm January 25, 2023 Tableau plays a huge role in helping users get to insights quickly while telling impactful stories using their data. Digital content was made publicly accessible through the Jabar Digital Service YouTube channel.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Veale Humanitarian Award for service to the blind community. Benetech doesn't give technology away, but instead develops socially beneficial and affordable products and services that are not financially attractive to for-profit companies. She brings the printed word to students, teachers, other professionals and avid readers."

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Whether your organization offers services or tangible goods, it’s important to connect donors to your cause. Showing the impact of your organization by providing real life examples of your services and telling your story throughout the donor experience. Leap for Literacy. What connects donors to your cause? Use this space!

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Tableau

JANUARY 24, 2023

Gandes Goldestan Business Intelligence Analyst Jabar Digital Service Sarah Molina January 24, 2023 - 8:29pm January 25, 2023 Tableau plays a huge role in helping users get to insights quickly while telling impactful stories using their data. Digital content was made publicly accessible through the Jabar Digital Service YouTube channel.

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

million students - and counting - have acquired data skills through our program. In collaboration with Tableau, Pathstream developed a 5-month fully-online Data & Business Analytics Certificate that builds critical skills to connect college and career for non-traditional students. Eleanor Cooper , Pathstream CEO. To mention a few: .

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