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Outstanding Volunteer Scout

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Today, I'd like to honor Matthew Devcich, a high school student and aspiring Eagle Scout, who chose to focus his major Scout project on Bookshare.org. He pulled together volunteers from his community, involved the local public library in Chantilly, Virginia, and scanned and proofread 24 books.

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Meet the Bookshare in-house summer volunteer team!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

John Pastorius I am from Smithfield, Virginia. I attend Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia where I am studying music performance. I worked with students with visual impairments as well as other teachers, focusing on needs and training to use assistive technology.

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Bookshare.org and Lobster

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is crucial as we continue to rapidly expand into serving students. My tradition is to make smoked lobster for my wife, Virginia, and the local newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, was kind enough to print this fact in an article titled: What notable business leaders are doing for Mom.

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Keeping the Rich History of Virginia Preserved and Secure

Tech Soup

She was George Washington's mother, born in Lancaster County in Virginia's Northern Neck region. " The library contains thousands of published records, books, manuscripts, periodicals, and microfilms about the Northern Neck region of Virginia.

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ORG Impact Awards Highlight Worldwide Achievement

The NonProfit Times

By connecting people through crowdfunded loans, Kiva supports business owners, farmers, students, and social enterprises with the funding they need to thrive. Kids Operating Room installs operating rooms and provides specialist training to local doctors to build pediatric surgical capacity and improve access to essential medical care.

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. In March of this year, The Virginia G. All the volunteers were working as tutors in local elementary schools. Carlton Yoshioka, Ph.D. Professor and Director. of Academic Programs. ASU Lodestar Center. Welcome to Research Friday !

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Volunteer for Mozilla Service Week

NTEN

This year’s theme is “Digital Inclusion” and there will be local service events that you can join! Create your own: Reach out to a local school, organization or people near you to find out what sort of technology help they need.

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