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MAY 22, 2013

Jim Fruchterman receiving the Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech President Jean Lou Chameau, May 18, 2013 More than anything else, that pleasure in finding things out has been Caltech’s gift to me in my work as an entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur.

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Syria Guatemala Open Source Lecture 196

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

One lone sepulcher Were these gifts from a kind stranger, hoping to honor some unknown person? The woman who was our guide showed us the N.N.s’ placards with tiny vases of flowers placed in front of them or a few memorializing words quickly scrawled on them (in the night when no one would know, she said).

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Colombia Statistics Analysis Data 122

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DECEMBER 24, 2007

One of the most important gifts I'm celebrating this holiday season are the things I didn't get: many, many pounds of junk mail catalogs, many of them duplicates. And, it's accomplished through a great social venture: GreenDimes , whose motto is Stop Junk Mail.

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Mail Environment Celebrate Application 100

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NOVEMBER 28, 2008

I just received an update from KK Tse entitled The Most Inspiring Story from the Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship, talking about 1KG More, a social enterprise that implemented Voluntourism: combining backpacking with delivering books and other gifts for rural Chinese children.

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China Social Children Student 100

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

If giving disabled vets the gift of accessible reading resonates with you, I would definitely appreciate anything you can do to support our cause. Human Rights Enrique Piracés Major milestones are the norm this year for our Human Rights team.

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India Literacy Global Accessibility 142

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Entitled The Gift of Insight , the story recounts Viji’s personal journey and how it inspired her to work with members of our Bookshare service who have print disabilities that make it difficult for them to read traditional text.

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San Jose Profile India United Kingdom 109

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DECEMBER 5, 2004

Give the gift of reading this holiday season! This contains a list of books we'd like to add to our digital library for people with print disabilities, Bookshare.org. Books donated to Bookshare.org should be tax deductible, since Bookshare.org is operated by Benetech, a qualified tax exempt organization.

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Library Gift Digital Donation 100

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JUNE 5, 2010

It’s not clear that money awards would be an important driver of this Phase: the gift of attention to the issue would be the main payoff. I think identification of problems could be a very exciting opportunity, to build up a detailed list of requirements that could inspire developers and problem solvers.

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Accessibility Award Proposal Phase 100

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Brother Tom especially remembered his dad as a storyteller, someone with the gift of gab and a touch of the blarney. He was very proud of how he had structured the settlement as a education and college trust fund for the injured boy. That was our dad! Fourth, he inspired us with his love of humor and pranks.

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South Carolina Michigan Music Awareness 100

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

This means more than 2,300 pages of text and an amazing gift for the 250,000+ Bookshare student members we serve. UC Santa Cruz students who participated in our volunteer pilot project— proofreading textbooks for our Bookshare collection—have done a fantastic job proofreading over a short period of time three entire textbooks!

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Student Volunteer Impact Classroom 191

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

At my first meeting with this donor and Robert, Benetech received an incredible unrestricted one million dollar gift. Robert went further and personally pitched Benetech to a very wealthy donor. That funding, along with backing from Skoll Foundation and the Omidyar Network, was the rocket fuel for what Benetech has become today.

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Mentoring Indiana Press Profit 174

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The gift shop features wonderful products created by disadvantaged communities that PDA works with, since poverty is a huge factor in procreation and vulnerability to disease. PDA is also fighting HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. At this time of year, a lifesized Santa Claus made from condoms (along with Mrs.

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Laos Asia Thailand Virginia 202

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DECEMBER 2, 2005

While I actually was momentarily tempted by the mint tea and the ceremony to buy a rug, I remember that Virginia was quite clear when I had asked about gifts from Tunisia, that rugs were not a part of the list. However, they will cut them apart and sell me just one for $325. I start deferring, but the pressure to start negotiating is on.

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Tunisia Picture Delicious Course 100