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MARCH 27, 2011

I need a senior partner to help me, our team and our board raise Benetech's profile, communicate our key messages and secure crucial resources. That's our rocket fuel: how we grow our impact by another integer factor and get new ventures started.

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MARCH 17, 2011

This system was extremely effective at communicating specific needs in a timely way that required very little additional infrastructure. We think that this is important and valuable. However, we worry that crowdsourced data are not a good data source for doing statistics or finding patterns.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

We need help in the following areas: Marketing and communications Fundraising Software development Recruiting Accounting and finance Community management To us, a wildcard position is a new, unexpected better option for accomplishing our social mission. If you would like to try the nonprofit sector on for size, read on.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Developing SMS communication capability , providing a simple yet powerful way for individuals to interact with Mifos via their SMS-enabled phone. Making Mifos more transparent by empowering staff to more easily use client information for document generation and reporting.

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JANUARY 1, 2011

While respecting individual privacy and our other values, we foster a collaborative work environment through open communication. Benetech is committed to communication and cooperation with employees, whether physically present or not. We seek to evaluate our people and our work, and to continue to document and improve our procedures.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

And don’t forget to look at the photo gallery, which features some great pictures taken by Benetech’s Communications Director Ann Harrison. Check out the whole story here. One photo features Patrick Ball, director of Benetech’s human rights program examining documents from the archive.

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OCTOBER 20, 2012

The Giving Library now enables users to easily locate, study, and communicate with Benetech and other featured nonprofits that fit their giving criteria. Very cool, but I have to admit this is the most sober and serious interview I've ever given because I was trying hard to follow my notes!

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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JULY 23, 2007

Ann Harrison, our Communications Director, just pulled together a great photo essay on our work with the National Police Archive in Guatemala. Bringing Ann on board has been a key part of improving our communications as an organization.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

Skills around technology, creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. FreshBrain is focused on an important problem - filling the gap in the education that our teens receive, specifically in the area of 21st Century Skills.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

I’ve collected experience on various aspects such as: communication, delivering code on time, managing a project on GitHub, setting up milestones and issues, and completing them on time. This subscription mechanism will notify the user whenever a new issue of the subscribed newspaper/magazine is available on Bookshare.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Simple communications design that everybody gets: green light, yellow light, red light. Signals blends two key ideas: The patterns of student failure can be spotted early: much earlier than existing systems relying on failing midterms! Purdue can spot patterns that indicate a much higher chance of failure, and intervene early.

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JUNE 12, 2006

Basically there were no effective electronic means of communication. The only meaningful communication took place P2P as people called each other or in the daily and weekly meetings held at the two army centers in the region. The key data on these transparencies was not even communicated to the outside world in any regular process.

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MARCH 13, 2014

This means that the user''s data is encrypted locally on his/her computer and only the encrypted data is stored on the computer''s hard drive or communicated over networks. That''s why Martus offers end-to-end encryption.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Trachoma starts with a relatively benign infection of the eye with the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis, which leads to inflammation of the tissue lining the eyelids (this is one of the causes of conjunctivitis, or “pink eye”).

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JANUARY 25, 2012

These records shed light on the complicity of police and other security forces during the years of violence that killed tens of thousands of Guatemalans.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2008

Through the twin code in the book, the children in cities can find contact information of rural children on Twin Book's website and make communication through letters with rural children. The owners of these two books will become a "twin". Now 1KG More has five full-time staff and a stable group of volunteers.

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

Thanks to efforts by our Bookshare.org team and our communications director, Ann Harrison, we were delighted to see Matthew's efforts highlighted in an article in his hometown paper, entitled Helping everyone read. One of our terrific volunteers is Matthew Devcich, who chose to do his Eagle Scout project on scanning for Bookshare.org.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

I also served as a mediator and problem-solver, mainly by helping to facilitate communication between the employees, their supervisor, and the U.S. The work was often slow, and communication was sometimes difficult. Bookshare managers. The second part of my internship was outreach.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Gabby Giffords clearly struggles with communications: Mark Kelly forthrightly described her aphasia as knowing what she wants to say, but being unable to get the words out. It made a big impression on me and many in the audience.

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MARCH 22, 2007

The Hadley-China support staff interpret between Chinese and English to prevent communication difficulties. Students and tutors communicate privately on Skype as friends. As improved international communications make it easier for business and friendships to develop around the world, Hadley is at the forefront.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Guzmán’s statistical estimates about which police units had access to which documents showed evidence of communications between the army and police. He described the patterns of data found in the documents and the probability that police officials knew about the 667 documents related to García.

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Guatemala Statistics National Analysis 145

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JUNE 5, 2010

It’s certainly within our technical capabilities to provide a basic level of access to the information and communication capabilities of the Internet and web through broadband.

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JUNE 18, 2007

At an affordable price, everybody should have access to communications technology and content to meet their personal, social, educational and employment needs. We need to commit ourselves to delivering a base set of technological capabilities to all people, starting with Californians.

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DECEMBER 22, 2008

Our team does a great job at communicating the excitement and dedication they bring to Benetech's work: I'm sure we'll be doing much more of this in the future! If you had told me two years ago that we'd be hosting someone from Washington at Benetech, I would have been surprised.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2006

I never thought until I read one of the articles about the problems of a blind father and a deaf son communicating. Vic and his mom, who lives with him, are blind as a result of a [de]generative eye condition which his two daughters also have, and he has a son who is deaf. One of the technologies is going to make that easier.

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JANUARY 27, 2005

Communications overload. My second day at the WEF, and I'm blogging on the WEF's site and writing my pieces for the BBC. Here's a link to my latest WEF blog, on the Social Investing session.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Javier helped us consolidate our relationship with Random House Mondadori and is working to help us obtain content for Bookshare from other Spanish publishers.

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AUGUST 26, 2005

We are now getting into a long-overdue effort around clarifying our messages, improving our communications and strengthening our board and staff capacity. Benetech has really had capacity building grants until this year, when Skoll Foundation made a $75,000 grant just for this.

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MAY 18, 2006

Consequently, the National Police Archives provide a important opportunity to learn about the chain of command, the flow of communication, policies, and links between the National Police and other groups. The National Police was accused by victims of being responsible for much of the violence in Guatemala.

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DECEMBER 20, 2004

The presentation by Smart Communications of the Philippines was especially cool: they are turning the cell phone into a wallet for the poor. Earlier this year, I remember buying roasted cashews from a woman on the street in Maputo, Mozambique, who had her wares balanced on her head.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Digital and mobile communications are changing the rules about social networks, intellectual property, and the availability of big data, with an overall blurring of the boundaries between state, for-profits, and nonprofits.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

To that end, we combine statistical analysis of patterns of violence with information about military and police hierarchy, communication flow and deployment patterns. Our team members are creating an “accountability toolkit” – a set of innovative techniques for identifying patterns of responsibility for grave human rights crimes.

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International Guatemala Colombia Analysis 150

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DECEMBER 22, 2006

Protecting Guatemala's National Police Historical Archive A Guest Blog By Ann Harrison Benetech Communications Director Since 2003, Benetech's Martus information management software has helped human rights activists create encrypted databases and back up their data remotely to their choice of publicly available servers.

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JANUARY 30, 2006

Passion doesn't always translate into good communication of your ideas. Many don't yet have the skills to sell themselves, and that was something I thought that 90% of them could have improved upon. They were generally much better one on one than in speaking to the group.

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JULY 14, 2009

I come out of the business sector and I admire what business can do in terms of creating jobs and new technology and new ways for people to communicate. When charity goes beyond helping someone in need and creates dependency and even creates disincentives to self help — we can’t afford charity like that. Next, business.

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

It also means to get the narrative that emerges from our financials right, to communicate that narrative effectively to our stakeholders, and to help other social enterprises better convey their own financial stories. We’d like to point out here some of that additional footnote information that is integral to our audited financial statements.

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