Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create. Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 20, 2013
The Migel Medal, often called the highest honor in the blindness field, is awarded annually to one or two individuals whose careers exemplify exceptional accomplishments in the field. Helen Keller, who worked for AFB for many years, was on the original award board for its first twenty years, starting in 1937.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. 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. Tags: copyright blind Bookshare Chafee.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 3, 2011
Bookshare is dramatically exceeding its five-year collection and member targets at the close of the fourth year of our Bookshare for Education (B4E) project funded by the U.S. Bookshare is allowed to serve only students with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. In the U.S.,
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 2, 2012
Jim Fruchterman and Marcia Adler During our party, we also honored Social Profit Network's Robert Levenson, the Skoll Foundation and the Omidyar Foundation which provided vital philanthropic funding to expand Bookshare over the last decade. copyright law. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure.
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