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JUNE 8, 2015

Technology is playing an ever larger role in increasing respect for human rights and delivering better services, and we have two rare opportunities to lead world-class tech-for-good programs. Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs.

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MAY 26, 2011

It was a class at Caltech that prompted me to first think of making reading machines for blind people, my personal jumping off point that led me to found Benetech (hmm, name similarity probably not a coincidence!). The universities I visit tend to be full of students and faculty committed to doing important and innovative work.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

The partner we chose, Worth Trust employs people with disabilities, in addition they conduct life skills classes and provide training. The project's goals were to work with organizations that provide opportunities for people with disabilities and digitize a million pages of books to be added to the Bookshare collection.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

I’ll be putting a few of my tactics into the mix as the conversation unfolds, such as: * How I learned to love Priceline for getting cheap four-star hotels $85 for four star hotels in DC and London! *

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Section 121) , defines a special class of organizations known as authorized entities. Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C.

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JUNE 12, 2014

we at Benetech were concerned that the Authors Guild’s arguments in their appeal would remove the legal authorization for the services that we provide, relegating people with disabilities to second-class status.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Mifos can immediately deploy these new mobile features of its financial inclusion platform, which delivers world-class microcredit services that help open up new opportunities for the poor and their families. billion poor and unbanked.

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DECEMBER 29, 2010

Bookshare provides Jessica with books for her English literature class and her personal reading where her tastes run toward young adult fiction. Jessica, who is a junior at Manzano High School in Albuquerque, is a straight-A student and a member of the National Honor Society. Cerebral palsy makes it difficult for Jessica to hold a book.

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OCTOBER 19, 2008

Jim Patell of Stanford's Business School (and the d.school there) gave his pitch for similar principles in his extreme design for affordability class: it was cool to see an academic approach so grounded in reality and making a difference! While at ConEx, I had the chance to talk about our approach to agile, user-centered development.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

We also picked up books Carrie had previously ordered - including special requests from students who need specific texts for their classes. Then we headed off to an independent bookseller who lets Bookshare buy new books at a discount and order others.

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MARCH 22, 2007

More advanced English students read aloud interesting articles for the whole class and explain the more complicated words to the other students in a combination of Chinese and English. After the English lessons end, the native English speakers and the Hadley-China staff talk about the class and make suggestions for improvement.

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DECEMBER 3, 2004

My talk this week at Stanford was videoed and placed on the EE380 class website. Technology and Human Rights Talk. I covered our Human Rights program, including the Martus Project and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (which joined Benetech last year).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Its key points are: • A recommendation that import and export be permitted under national law in all WIPO-member countries between Trusted Intermediaries (“TIs”), a narrow class of nonprofits and government agencies with a primary mission to serve the print disabled, with the option of charging TIs for the privilege to do so. •

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.

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JANUARY 17, 2014

we at Benetech are concerned that the Guild’s arguments in their appeal regarding the definition of “specialized formats” would nullify Section 121 and remove the legal authorization for the important services that we provide, relegating people with disabilities to second-class status.

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OCTOBER 18, 2004

Usually, I'm giving the general Benetech social entrepreneurship story, talking about how technology can be benefiting humanity even more, to audiences as varied as the Palo Alto Rotary Club, a Stanford Business School class, and a cocktail party for one of our funders.

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JULY 9, 2018

Here is just a taste of what I think is possible, and maybe even probable: • A global library that makes people with disabilities first-class citizens when it comes to access to books and other information. • All students around the world have access to rich and varied educational content. •

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DECEMBER 11, 2006

The social enterprises often pay for the entire cost of operating a certain vocational department (like their beautician classes), but the core costs of running the school has to be raised from donors. Aruna Dalmia, and talked about the challenges of running a tuition-free school. The children were simply delightful.

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OCTOBER 28, 2005

And Bookshare puts at the disposal of its subscribers the information they need to understand and succeed in their classes, their community, and their world. It transforms subscribers from passive beneficiaries into instant volunteers: anyone can help by submitting or proofreading books.

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APRIL 3, 2007

The researchers got two days of focused seminars and content, while the practitioners and non-academic attendees were happily engaged in workshops and what I dubbed "master classes:" where Skoll Award winners would sit down and talk about their challenges.

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JULY 6, 2004

That's first class access! If you use magnification technology - magnify it to your heart's content! Newsline and Bookshare.org together give you the power to access the newspaper your way, every day. Better than what sighted people have. Please come down to the exhibit hall and see today's USA Today for yourself. Sign up for Newsline!

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Several months ago, he approached me and offered to involve his entire class in proofreading Bookshare textbooks. Every year, we receive over 3,500 direct requests from students with print disabilities (like blindness or dyslexia) who do not have the textbooks they need in a form they can read and in time for the start of class.

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JULY 14, 2009

The top performing asset class for the last year was social investing in opportunity finance. In the UK government thinks more and more about turning to social enterprise to deliver social services rather than traditional business or government solutions.

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JANUARY 14, 2012

As someone who has both recommended a Skoll Scholar (Jesse Fahnestock of our Bookshare team was in the first class of Skoll Scholars) and hired a fabulous MBA from Jesse's class: Barbara Morrison, who led our business development team for years, I can see how important this is!

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Our goal is to make four critical supporting points: • The term “Social enterprise” is descriptive. • “Social enterprise” is generic. • “Social enterprise” is in wide use in Trademark classes covering computer software and services to business and society. • Social enterprise is wide use in classes covering computer software and services.

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APRIL 11, 2017

Systems Entrepreneurship is on the Rise Jeff Walker has been making the case for what he calls "systems entrepreneurship" at Harvard's Kennedy School, Skoll and in a new SSIR article.

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JULY 16, 2018

And it will demand a new class of talent, skilled in helping strategize the software and data ecosystem for entire fields – not just a single organization. That people, and animals, and the planet are facing. I believe it will create a new opportunity for software and data geeks to give back collectively for massive impact.

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JULY 22, 2012

He has taken advanced classes in math, biology, chemistry and physics. Robin Sanders Robin is a well-rounded high school student who participates in everything from varsity basketball, to playing the viola and touring with the Palo Alto chamber orchestra. He is an editor for the school paper.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

Quality: building a great technology tool or doing science to world-class standards. That way, our project manager has a dashboard of metrics to use that is aligned with the goals and interests of all of our stakeholders in pursuing maximum impact. Right Stuff Right Just three words that convey so much.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Alas, Fan, a high-school senior, had to depart in July to attend summer classes at Stanford. Shortly after career day he contacted Viji Dilip, head of Bookshare International, to see about an internship. This summer Ryan learned how to research and develop business plans for the potential expansion of Bookshare into new countries.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

The Corte Madera School now uses Bookshare.org books in a range of classes for disabled students. In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software.

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