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FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Veale Humanitarian Award for service to the blind community. Here's the letter from the editor of Matilda Ziegler Magazine, which explains why Carrie was deserving of this award: A Letter from the Editor New York City Dec. Veale Humanitarian Award. She wrote, "Please consider Carrie Karnos for this award.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

With his proven execution in scaling business systems and infrastructures that shaped the growth of award-winning service products for multiple high profile Silicon Valley technology companies, he has the perfect pedigree to spearhead engineering at Benetech as we continue to innovate in the technology-for-good space.

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MAY 17, 2013

Fundación Paraguaya was the country’s first microfinance program and first development NGO. And there’s more: Martín is the author of books on economics, development, municipal government, education and even poetry!

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JUNE 5, 2010

Although the Clearinghouse and Awards programs could be helpful to the cause of greater access for people with disabilities, I don’t think they truly take on the biggest opportunity for change. Specific comments on the proposed Chairman’s Awards. Awards programs are around providing incentives to encourage certain kinds of behaviors.

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MAY 22, 2013

Address on receiving Caltech’s Distinguished Alumni Award May 18, 2013 Caltech was founded to give back to society through science and engineering, to discover knowledge and apply that knowledge.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Department of State, about empowering the world’s billion people with disabilities ; or to talking with my peer Skoll Award winners about writing software for development, social justice and human rights needs—CGI 2013 was a nonstop flow of sessions and exchanges with partners on ways to leverage resources towards each organization’s mission.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Idea Four: Fighting Corruption The TED Prize this year went to Charmian Gooch of Global Witness (she also won a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship at the same time). Since Charmian will get her Skoll Award at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford the second week of April, I know we’ll have the chance to kick around her needs.

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JUNE 23, 2014

The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. Kushal is the founder and co-chairman of Vittana, an award-winning nonprofit that fights youth poverty in developing countries.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

All the organizations participating in the Challenge are recipients of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. This campaign is part of the Social Entrepreneurs Challenge , an effort launched by the Skoll Foundation in partnership with The Huffington Post and CrowdRise in order to support leading social enterprises.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Thanks to being a Skoll Award winner, I am frequently blessed with the opportunity to hear from the world’s most inspiring leaders. Whether it’s local in California, or at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, there is a regular chance I will have my mind expanded.

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DECEMBER 3, 2011

Today I’m delighted to share the exciting news about the new award we just received from OSEP to build upon Bookshare’s success and significantly improve access for students with disabilities. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Finally, the Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Education reviewed Bookshare’s status as an authorized entity as part of the awards process for the Bookshare for Education project. The Request for Proposal specified that only an authorized entity could receive an award in that competition.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

students with print disabilities, I told my team that if we won an award, I'd cook smoked lobster for the whole company. We issued our first official press release about the award and immediately had a great article in the San Jose Mercury News. When we submitted our proposal to the competition to provide accessible books to U.S.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This practice was especially awarded at the ESR conference. And, I tried out a new talk on the theme of "Return on Humanity" as my thank-you speech for getting the Social Innovator of the Year Award. It was an honor to receive the award, especially following in the footsteps of Martin Burt, last year's recipient!

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

We've been a big fan of DDD, and nominated them (one of many nominations they received, I'm sure) for the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship , which they received several years ago. The DDD student staff people work half days at DDD, proofing textbooks to make them accessible to students with print disabilities.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

We were up against immense political pressure to rescind the award. Multiple senators called the secretary of education asking for explanations of how earmarked funding ended up in the hands of “nobodies from California” who had never lobbied Congress. That’s when I called that advocacy firm, a “luxury” that soon became indispensable.

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MAY 3, 2004

Benetech's Dr. Patrick Ball has just been awarded the ACM's 2003 Lawler Award for humanitarian contributions using computer technology. The ACM is the leading organization for computer science professionals.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

on choosing to be a nonprofit or a for-profit, based on my For Love or Lucre SSIR article 9/26 Kicking off the Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Lecture Series 10/1 Speaking at the Disability Rights Advocates board meeting 10/5 Duke Fuqua MBA High Tech Club Panel (Cloud Computing /Social Entrepreneurship panels) 10/5 Duke CASE Award for Enterprising (..)

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MARCH 14, 2006

And, I'll be going to Oxford at the end of this month to the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship to accept the award on behalf of the Benetech team.

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DECEMBER 18, 2011

Then, I heard that one of our partners had just been recognized as the first recipient of the David Kato Vision & Voice Award , which honors the murdered Ugandan LGBT activist. Jamaican lawyer and activist Maurice Tomlinson of J-FLAG will be recognized next month.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2005

The Tech Awards yesterday were a blast. The Mercury News ran a great story and quoted Peggy Gibbs, one of our execs: Old problems, new solutions : The Tech Museum Awards also provide a venue for many local foundations and non-profits to seek out new ideas and partners. Benetech is a past finalist for the Tech Museum Awards.

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APRIL 8, 2005

Patrick Ball, our Director of Human Rights Programs, will be awarded one of EFF's Pioneer Awards next week. Electronic Frontier Foundation Announces Pioneer Award Winners I think this is a great recognition of Patrick's incredible contribution to the international human rights movement.

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OCTOBER 19, 2013

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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JANUARY 27, 2008

Right after the award for B4E, I gave a keynote at the NCTI conference in DC that went over well. It was a blast, given that we've more than quadrupled the number of students we're serving in less than four months! Plus, Bookshare.org just past 36,000 books on-line, and 37,000 will likely happen within a month.

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JANUARY 2, 2007

I was awarded one of the 2006 MacArthur Fellowships. These awards are based not so much on past achievements, as an expectation that you will do something exciting in the future. Here's my latest President's Update. Benetech's momentum continues with some fantastic news.

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JUNE 27, 2008

As part of the large national award we received from the Department of Education, we are spending a lot more time in Washington. I was surprised to find he was aware of the controversy around the big Bookshare.org award and asked sharp questions about how we were dealing with challenges around delivering on this.

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APRIL 3, 2007

And that's saying something, since I got my award last year and that was pretty exciting. I mean, he helped make Al Gore into an Oscar-Award winning actor: what might he be able to do with a social entrepreneur! The Balancing Act: just about right This is my third Skoll Forum, and I definitely think that it was the best.

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DECEMBER 19, 2006

While I was in India, I picked up the newspaper and saw that he had just received a Helen Keller award for his work. He has been described as the pioneer of Talking Books in India, and had been campaigning for a copyright law change to make it easier to provide access to accessible books.

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OCTOBER 2, 2007

federal Department of Education made a major five-year award of $32 million to Bookshare.org. I'm delighted to share incredible news, which will transform Bookshare.org. On Friday, the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2007

Apparently, winning a competition for the largest award made by OSEP in memory (ever?) We're committed to increasing our rate of title growth by a factor of four or five while improving quality. Mr. Jim and Ms. Lisa go to Washington Lisa Friendly and I just spent a fascinating week in Washington. caused quite a stir.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We also received our largest-ever award for human rights, a two-year, $2.2 We’ve just hired Enrique Piracés, most recently with Human Rights Watch, as the new Vice President of our rapidly growing Human Rights Program. His job is to explore new frontiers of technology for secure fact-finding by human rights groups and journalists.

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AUGUST 26, 2007

The team at SCU's Center for Science, Technology, and Society are dedicated to raising the game of these award-winning social entrepreneurs, so that they are better equipped to make more positive social change (and attract the resources they need to make it happen). The head of Santa Clara, Fr.

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MAY 2, 2012

A little over 4 years ago, we won a competitive contract award from the US Department of Education which took a bold risk on Bookshare. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities. Bookshare has grown tremendously from the 3,000 students that we were serving in 2007. and that risk paid off.

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MARCH 31, 2006

At last night's awards ceremonies, the highlight was seeing four short films on four of the Skoll Social entrepreneurs. There are sixteen social entrepreneur award winners this year: three are past Skoll grantees, but this is our first chance to be on stage for the big award ceremony.

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APRIL 28, 2007

Coleman, co-founder of BEA Systems, the fastest growing technology company in history, and Fruchterman, recipient of the 2006 MacArthur Genius Award, will talk about their passion for social improvement. What are the triumphs, risks, and challenges in social benefit entrepreneurship?

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APRIL 1, 2008

The new Skoll Award winners each get three minutes to tell us a story. The number of Nobel Peace prize winners has been just incredible: I think we had at least three speak at plenaries this year. Wednesday during the morning and early afternoon are sessions for the social entrepreneurs.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Viji has set up partnerships with several noted publishers including Seasons Publishing, based in Chennai, India and Sahitya Akademy which publishes award-winning titles in 15 local languages. Other Indian publishers and authors are also coming forward to offer their titles.

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