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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create. Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. Even in the United States, this was true of probably a quarter of our student users.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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The Global Literacy team, led by VP & General Manager Betsy Beaumon, just celebrated our latest major milestones: serving 300,000 members, the majority of whom are American students with disabilities, and offering 250,000 accessible books on the virtual shelves of our library. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on.

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ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! 3-4 — Sector Student - Arent we all? posted by Stephanie La Loggia, M.A.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: American Humanics: An Elite Group

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ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! But I think it fits the graduating class of American Humanics (AH) students, all 18 of them.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Making the Play: Successfully Engaging.

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ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! The Future is You: Philanthropy in the 21st Centur.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

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ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! The Future is You: Philanthropy in the 21st Centur. Stay tuned.

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Benetech’s Framework for Developing New Social Enterprises

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As philanthropy wonk Lucy Bernholz writes , together, these changes add up to a new social economy: “[A] dynamic and diverse set of enterprises that deploy private resources to the creation and sustenance of public goods.” copyright law. We’re learning new ways to create and sustain social value.

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