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Beth Kanter is an independent consultant specializing in curriculum development, training, assessment and evaluation to assist nonprofit organizations in effective technology use. She writes on these topics on her blog.

She writes about Khmer culture and technology at Cambodia4kids blog and maintains a web site with the same name that provides information for U.S. teachers and parents. Her “Typing To Learn Khmer” blog is where she practices her very basic Khmer language skills using Khmer Unicode. Her motivation to learn about Cambodia is to ensure that her two adopted Khmer children know about their homeland and celebrate their culture.

She is a board member of the Sharing Foundation, an NGO that does projects to benefit Cambodian children and FAMCAM , a parent support group of families with adopted Cambodian children. She done volunteer work in Cambodia for the Roteang Village School.

She has worked with nonprofit arts and community-based organizations for over twenty-five years. She has a B.A. from Bennington College and studied flute performance at the New School of Music in Philadelphia. She worked as an arts administrator for New England Conservatory, Boston Symphony, and Pro Art Chamber Orchestra before she became an independent consultant. She served as an outside evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts for its Advancement and Challenge Grant programs for over ten years.

In 1992, she was hired by the New York Foundation for the Arts to coordinate the Arts Wire program, an online network for the arts where she provided technical support and Internet training. While at NYFA, she designed and implemented training and technical assistance programs for the arts community to integrate technology into their work. She was an instructor for the Empire State Arts Partnership Summer Seminar at Sarah Lawrence College for five years.

She currently serves as a consultant to the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations on a variety of projects. She manages their “E-Institute for Arts
Leadership” program, a hybrid e-learning program, a partnership with Cornell University.

She has designed curriculum and led workshops for scores of artists, arts educators, and arts educators who want to incorporate the use of technology into their work. She is the author of “Building Arts Audiences and Communities on the Web” which was based on her work at NYFA. She was commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts to write several case studies on technology planning for arts organizations. She worked with Npower to research and co-author a white paper on the use of technology in the arts sector.

Since 2000, Beth has worked with the Summit Collaborative, a network of people and organizations working to build the capacity of nonprofit organizations, where she works on technology evaluation projects. She is working on an evaluation of the use of mobile technology to help uninsured residents obtain health insurance and other health care services. She has also served as a technology grant evaluator for several funders, including Legal Services Corporation's “Technology Innovation Grants.”

She is a currently project consultant for Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network's (N-TEN) Day of Service project where technology assistance providers from all over the world gather to volunteer their time to help local nonprofits in a community. She was commissioned to research and write a policy paper for the Community Technology Centers Network (CTCNET) on delivering technology assistance to community-based organizations and use of technology by homeless providers. She has presented at numerous conferences on nonprofit technology topics.