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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Guest Beneblog by Megan Price I recently had the opportunity to present several of HRP’s projects to the local San Francisco chapter of the American Statistical Association (SFASA). Quite a few are hoping to volunteer for us in the future!

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Chapter Local San Francisco Guatemala 174

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 26, 2008

One of our new strategies to respond to the increasing demand for social enterprise knowledge is to encourage chapters to form. The initial chapters have just been starting this year. Our first chapter was in St. You can contact SEA's chapters and organizing groups on the SEA Chapter page.

Chapter 100

Chapter St. Louis San Francisco Chicago 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Volunteers who do a chapter's worth of image descriptions for a student textbook will get their day pass. I just found out that our Bookshare volunteers can sign up to get a free day at a Disney park. Just put in our zip code "94306" at the foregoing link and you should see the opportunity there.

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Volunteer Chapter Student Images 100

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The big advantage of DAISY over typical scanned files is that DAISY includes much more extensive navigation (chapters, sections, page numbers, etc.). We take their files and convert them to the DAISY format which is a digital format designed specifically to create accessible materials for people with print disabilities.

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Accessibility Marketing eBook Files 133

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JUNE 13, 2011

I particularly have appreciated his help with the SF chapter of the Social Enterprise Alliance, a national organization I helped found and am now the immediate past chair.

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San Francisco Law Lecture Advice 140

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This particular weekend we divided into teams and tackled projects from the New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), MiX Market, and UN Global Pulse. I joined the NYCLU team, where we worked on data collected by the New York Police Department about their “stop and frisk” practices.

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New York City New York San Francisco Analysis 133

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DECEMBER 29, 2007

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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Business Social Lecture Case Study 100