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Austrian Mountain Top

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, most times that means I'm not in the picture. Neil Soiffer of Design Sciences took this nice picture of me on the top of the mountain for the ICCHP conference's Mountain Attack on July 12th, 2008. Of course, I had forgotten to bring a jacket, so I used a handy conference umbrella during a brief rain on the mountain top.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Majora Carter is on a quest to save the world one community at a time. She founded the nonprofit Sustainable South Bronx , was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and today leads the Majora Carter Group , an economic consulting firm she formed in 2008 to bring her approach to underserved communities across the country.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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At Benetech, we’re fortunate to have had long-time support from funders who have been willing to bet on us. That’s what a lot of foundations would love to see happen: in this case, it’s happened multiple times! We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India.

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