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JUNE 9, 2014

As CEO and founder of Benetech —a nonprofit technology company that has been creating and delivering technology solutions to expand the educational and vocational opportunities of marginalized groups—I was thrilled to learn firsthand about this funder collaborative and its interest in supporting innovative approaches to tackling the education gap.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2011

Technology has revolutionized business, but bringing those breakthrough developments to government, education and the nonprofit sectors can take 5, 10, even 15 years. We help them to do more of what works, less of what doesn’t, and see that donor dollars are applied for maximum impact. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

We may be a nonprofit, but we’re also a tech company: in ten years, we shouldn’t be doing what we’re doing today! This growth in human rights work, supported by strong donor relationships, makes it possible to carry out a spinoff at a position of great strength!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

nonprofit to have been in China for this length of time. Part of the meeting was celebrating the first ever China Hadley director and donor, Mr. Zhang Zhongyan. We came to Fuzhou for a celebration. Celebrating 20 years is a big deal in China. As you might imagine, it's unusual for a U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. In my contribution to Ron’s book, I discuss the framework that guides us at Benetech, the technology nonprofit I lead.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e., Kushal is the founder and co-chairman of Vittana, an award-winning nonprofit that fights youth poverty in developing countries. donations), but we focus exclusively on return to humanity. At Benetech, we are harnessing these new rules of innovation.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

As a foundation, we do more than just write a check; through our community, philanthropic and corporate partnerships, we help nonprofit organizations find new revenue sources to become more self-sustaining. Entrepreneurship At ZeroDivide, we fund nonprofit organizations that employ new models of economic sustainability.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Donors and communities are announcing big hairy audacious goals – end modern slavery, get to zero chronic and veteran homelessness, increase job opportunities for certain communities by a factor of two – or ten! We have to use this opening to help advance our goal; using software and data to change the world for the better!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Sheldon was someone who I stayed in touch with even after leaving Calera to start a nonprofit social enterprise to make the Arkenstone reading machines for the blind (Arkenstone was the original name of Benetech). And so, my very first for-profit angel introduced me to my first nonprofit angel!

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

As a nonprofit, different types of funding fuel our work. This, in part, is why a nonprofit’s financial statements can raise significant questions about its financial story. Informed investors and donors dig deep into the data. Our bare standard financial statements might create the appearance of declining reserves.

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APRIL 7, 2013

They had short-term feedback on the need for Martus to support a new Burmese font: something we worked with our donors (thanks, OTF and OSF!) Almost all of the money in the human rights field comes from donors who believe in the importance of fighting injustice and oppression around the world. to prioritize.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Like many other leaders of nonprofit organizations, I travel an unreasonable fraction of the time. We travel because we need to raise money, and we won’t get it unless we get in front of the donors. New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City.

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