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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!

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Zach Bryant The change happened when Zach was in high school and his Assistive Technology teacher introduced him to Benetech’s Bookshare library. With Bookshare’s accessible ebooks and reading tools, Zach made a successful transition to college. I don’t wait for my books for new classes; I search the library and find them myself.”

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Are You Passionate about Technology and Social Good? Benetech Needs You!

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We use technology today to help hundreds of thousands of students with disabilities succeed in school, as well as help human rights activists around the world document abuses and seek justice. As one of our partners from an LGBT group in Uganda noted last year, “If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.”

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DIAGRAM Center

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The goal of the DIAGRAM R&D Center is to greatly improve access to graphical information for students with print disabilities (for example, helping blind students get access to important graphics inside textbooks). The goal is to be able to gain access to the same learning a sighted student would get from that diagram.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

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From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. Consider third grade student Brennan Draves. Brennan Draves and his mother, Lindsay Draves, at school.

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Data and the Human Touch

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This reality changed when both Kevin and Sophia learned about the accessible online library Bookshare , an initiative of Silicon Valley technology nonprofit Benetech. With its rapidly growing collection of over 225,000 (and counting) accessible ebooks, Bookshare is the world’s largest library of its kind.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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From accountants to college students, from administrators working in construction offices to legal professionals, many are considering new career directions to gain more meaningful work and to serve the greater good in their communities. And download a free copy of Qgiv’s eBook: Grant Writing Toolkit.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

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Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print.

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