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MAY 17, 2013

He is also one of the creators of the environmental protection movement in Paraguay, having co-founded the Moisés Bertoni Conservation Foundation and the Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, two of the country’s prominent nature conservation institutions.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

That’s why we, in conjunction with the Conservation Measures Partnership, have developed Miradi , our groundbreaking software application for running biodiversity and conservation projects. The program allows environmentalists to design conservation plans that bring together best practices in environmental management.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 11, 2007

Our core beta testers are drawn from the Conservation Measures Partnership , coalition of the leading biodiversity groups (such as The Nature Conservancy, WWF and WCS). Our new environmental project management software, Miradi , just went into its beta testing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2011

Our Environmental team is helping to bring results-based management to the conservation and biodiversity field. We are database experts who help to answer the key question in human rights: who did what to whom? We are expert witnesses in war crimes trials, helping bring an end to impunity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 5, 2010

It seemed like a larger scale version of what we are already doing for the conservation movement with Miradi, and what we've been kicking around as the "Carbon P&L" concept for a possible new social enterprise. Since I came to STS to plug open content, open data and transparency in general, it really resonated.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Next step is to review it with our partners in developing Miradi: groups like The Nature Conservancy, WCS and WWF. We had a summer MBA intern from Haas Business School (at UC Berkeley), Jeff Rauenhorst, and he wrote a draft launch plan which we're just putting the finishing touches on.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Benetech’s partnerships in literacy, human rights and environmental conservation are matching the creativity of the high-tech sector with the efforts of grassroots leaders around the world. With extensive feedback from users, we ensure our projects truly make a difference, helping to amplify the impact of our partner’s work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

But, the gentle speed of turtle mode conserved the last kiloJoules of electrical energy and we glided to a stop in front of the charging station at my house. I had pushed my luck while circling, and we were half a mile from my house. Would we make it? Would we end up pushing the car at the end? We'd made it!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Advancing Human Rights and Conservation Although Benetech was founded in the accessibility field, our success in equilibrium change is not limited to helping people with disabilities. We were the toolmakers to the “results-based management” movement in conservation by developing Miradi, adaptive management software for conservation projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Employee teams have created new features for Mozilla’s Popcorn project, designed and developed desktop and mobile applications supporting conservation management, education, and human rights, and provided technical image descriptions for accessible STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) textbooks to Benetech’s own DIAGRAM Center.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Unfortunately, there are literally hundreds of nonprofit social enterprises operating in all of these areas.

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JULY 11, 2013

In addition, technical teams have participated in single-day company events—like one where important new reporting features were designed for Miradi , a tool used by thousands of NGOs, in over 130 countries, to monitor worldwide conservation projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007. The feedback has been amazing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Craig is a summer associate exploring new applications for Miradi, Benetech’s user-friendly conservation project planning and monitoring software. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. He followed up by launching another company helping startups find funding, write business plans, etc.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Miradi – Expanding Throughout the World Images of sea life from the Ytre Hvaler National Park in Norway.I’ve been amazed by the growth in adoption of Miradi, our conservation project management software tool.

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