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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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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Mountaintop Mining – Seeing is rejecting.

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Mining is in the news a lot recently because of the terrible tragedy in Utah where six miners are presumed dead in a mine collapse and at least three more have been killed trying to rescue them. You can read about it more in today’s New York Times. Obvious isn’t it.

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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. If we open up most of our devices, we are usually violating the warranty and (in some cases) federal law. Copyright Office, completed its "triannual" rulemaking on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Image 1: Sarah Cade.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. The Marrakesh Treaty.

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