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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset.

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Silicon Valley Gives to Bookshare

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Tomorrow, Tuesday May 5, 2015, is Silicon Valley Gives day, where donors from around the world will find their contributions to organizations based here matched by local donors. There are more books to be scanned, and many more people who need accessible books here in the United States and around the world.

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Benetech Closing Statement on the Marrakech Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We are a high tech organization that is not organized as a for-profit company, but instead as a nonprofit charitable corporation working to ensure technology serves all of humanity. At Benetech , we like to think of ourselves as part of Silicon Valley’s heart. In many countries, over 90,000 titles are available.

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Benetech and the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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As a non-profit organization, our work with the TRC and our statistical report was made possible through the support of United States Department of State Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) and several other donors, which are listed in our report.

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