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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Understanding Income Inequality

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Imagine how my mind has been blown by learning about a huge international income database that has microdata on millions of households from more than 50 countries, all harmonized to make the same kinds of analyses possible across any of these countries! Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)?

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2015 Jim Lynch Award Winner — Kyle Wiens of iFixit

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The iPhone repairability scores have steadily improved since 2007. One of Kyle's first victories in the right to repair was in 2013, when he successfully advocated for legalizing the unlocking of mobile devices so they aren't locked to a single carrier like AT&T or Verizon. I have a feeling this guy is just getting started.

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Why Apple isn't the Nonprofit App Grinch | Nonprofit Trends with.

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Her thoughts on Apple’s ban on donations in iPhone apps recently appeared in The New York Times. This isn’t a new issue for her and she blogged back in June on this topic. The Right International Options Supporting donations in the United States is one thing. It's importance can't be debated.

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