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APRIL 30, 2012

CASE launched the ESI Award in 2009, and Benetech is proud to join the company of past award recipients. I was delighted to hear Joanne’s thoughts and to share some insights and lessons learned from the work that the Benetech Human Rights Program is doing to build the capacity of LGBTI-rights focused NGOs in Africa and the Caribbean.

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JUNE 23, 2014

Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? We want to help lead the charge into a future where the advantages of digital information touch the lives of all people, not just of the richest and most able five percent of humanity. How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people?

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MARCH 1, 2012

Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports regularly on the employment situation for people with disabilities, there is strong evidence that it has gotten disproportionately worse for workers with disabilities since 2009. million to 6 million by 2015.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

During my first visit to the Nigerian capital of Abuja last April, I learned that a member of the NHRC who had been monitoring local elections had been beaten and unlawfully detained. They also helped the NHRC upgrade their computers so that they could prepare for our arrival in Nigeria.

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JULY 14, 2009

Jim Fruchterman Chairman’s Address to the Social Enterprise Alliance 2009 Annual Summit The world’s a mess. When charity goes beyond helping someone in need and creates dependency and even creates disincentives to self help — we can’t afford charity like that. I’m here because I want to help build that movement.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Summer 2009 Our growth over the last year has been so phenomenal that I wanted to use this summer update to highlight some of the great people working for Benetech: our interns, summer associates and fellows. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children.

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