Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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The New Miradi

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

You can check out a very cool case study that includes more details about these projects here. The software also helps them present the end results of their conservation efforts to a wide variety of audiences and solicit public support for their projects. with new changes based on feedback from our users.

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Social Enterprise and the Small Business Administration

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was a chapter in the report entitled Social Entrepreneurship and Government, and Benetech was one of the case studies used (see pages 36-37). Benetech was recently featured in a report to the President (of the U.S.) on small business.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It gave us the opportunity to conduct for the first time a sizeable outreach campaign in education, provided us with informative user feedback and case studies, and supported the development of Bookshare’s initial K-12 collection. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

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Jim Phills and Lyn Denend of Stanford Graudate School of Business just published a case entitled Social Entrepreneurs: Correcting Market Failures , where Benetech was one of the featured social enterprises. This was a pretty exciting project: it's also a video case study.

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

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We have just completed a new case study detailing our multi-year project with the TRC. Kristen has been helping the TRC staff to develop a process that converts the qualitative information, contained in thousands of victim and witness testimonies, into data that can be used for quantitative analysis.

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Each of us drew on case studies and lessons learned from our own work. Another HRP partner, the Network for Human Rights Documentation (ND-Burma), which currently uses Martus to document human rights violations in Burma , was represented by the Earth Rights Initiative.

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