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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

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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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Solutions Day 2023—Beyond Answers to Insight

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It is a networking and development organization that connects executives with education, research, ideas, and people. One of the biggest is whether AI-generated content is protected by copyright law. Learn the steps this organization takes to win its members’ confidence. But Industry 4.0

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Bookshare’s Status as an Authorized Entity under Section 121

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Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Section 121) , defines a special class of organizations known as authorized entities. The Request for Proposal specified that only an authorized entity could receive an award in that competition. Tags: copyright blind Bookshare Chafee.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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This is especially true given that so many nonprofit and humanitarian groups are collecting private information that, even though intended to help, could inadvertently put the vulnerable populations they serve at risk of harm from repressive regimes, organized crime, and increasingly corporations.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The 2nd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards

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Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to submit their videos to the contest, hosted on DoGooderTV , the video sharing platform for nonprofits. The winner will be awarded an all-expense paid trip to the 2009 NTC to be held in San Francisco. This video has been viewed over 1.5 million times on YouTube.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

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Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. We also received our largest-ever award for human rights, a two-year, $2.2 million grant from the U.S.

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Convio Innovator Awards - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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