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OCTOBER 12, 2011

And that's Peter's goal as part of this effort. In 1999, the World Health Organi zation (WHO) and Peter’s International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness launched the VISION 2020 campaign, which has mobilized a community of partner organizations that have been working together towards the 2020 goal.

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OCTOBER 19, 2013

Granted, this is an audacious goal, but Majora’s unique approach to urban renewal has already led to successful revitalization initiatives in her native South Bronx, N.Y., Her broader national goal notwithstanding, Majora remains deeply passionate about and involved in revitalization of the South Bronx.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Sara LaPlante, NYCLU’s data and policy analyst laid out two clear goals for us. The second goal was a much tougher question – is there a racial bias in pedestrian stops? We were not able to make much significant progress on this second goal in a mere 48 hours. and some good ideas for next steps.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

It sure would create more demand for Bookshare in the future, but our primary goal is not to sustain Bookshare, although we will as long as Bookshare is needed. Our primary goal is to ensure that people with disabilities get equal access to the books and content they need for education, employment, leisure and social inclusion.

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AUGUST 19, 2013

At Benetech, our goal is to create positive social change through technology. Telling our story is an important way we’re able to accomplish that goal—it allows us to generate the interest and support necessary to develop technology that helps countless people around the world.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

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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JULY 9, 2018

We share the goal of bringing more books to American adults, but the vast Open Library vision inspired us to go even further. Our goal in working with the Internet Archive on the Open Library would be to experiment with a Wikipedia-style “please donate if you can” model to offer a global solution for free to everybody.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. Several key points under the avoidance of bureaucracy banner: The goal of the Treaty is to make it easy to make books accessible.

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MARCH 8, 2017

Within a minute or two, a FB Messenger chat started up about the UN and the Sustainable Development Goals. Last night I received a Facebook friend request from an old friend and accepted it. So, I of course kept the conversation going. I quickly checked, and found that (of course) I already was Facebook friends with my old friend.

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APRIL 3, 2014

It''s a big set of goals, but she''s pulled off the improbable before! She has a new vision of doing even more than the book caravans: she wants to build a new kind of school and ecologically sound social enterprise at an oasis in Morocco, which would include a museum about Moroccan culture.

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APRIL 10, 2013

And though they use the massive sets of data they collect to help create a better experience for their consumers (such as customized ads or tailored movie recommendations), their primary goal is to use what they learn to maximize profits. But can Big Data also create positive social change?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Benetech team is looking forward to supporting the collective efforts advancing this goal! I hope the modeling community comes away with a framework for open sourcing the integrated models used to produce sustainable nutrition security assessments.

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AUGUST 7, 2013

The Treaty of Marrakesh, Top Issues: What’s the goal of the Treaty? The goal of the Treaty is to end the book famine for people who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled. How Does the Treaty Meet this Goal? It does that in two main ways.

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APRIL 26, 2009

We're signing up students for Bookshare at a rate of more than 3,000 per month, and this means we're well ahead of our goal which was about 1700 students a month to hit our 100,000 students over five year goal. On my last trip to DC, I was very happy to be showing off the above graph. The entire Bookshare team is very proud of this!

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JUNE 25, 2014

For one, it could scale Joi Ito’s approach by creating a Media Lab-style network whose goal would be to build and deploy hundreds of technology solutions customized to the needs of the bottom billions of humanity. Let me explain. What could a billion dollars do?

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JANUARY 11, 2010

The project's goals were to work with organizations that provide opportunities for people with disabilities and digitize a million pages of books to be added to the Bookshare collection. Today two years later they digitize about 150,000 pages a month and have far surpassed their goal of a million pages.

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JUNE 28, 2013

Our goal is not to make money for private interests, but instead to use technology to maximize social good. 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.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We just dedicated our first crowd-funding campaign, Bookshare for Veterans —part of the Skoll Foundation’s Social Entrepreneurs Challenge on CrowdRise—to this goal and are enhancing our outreach to veterans who need access to books and information. We’re also expanding our efforts to help more people in the U.S.,

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

Treating them as customers, rather than objects of charity, promotes their sense of ownership and self-agency as they use the tools that we develop to achieve their own goals. Our role as technologists is to provide the tools that empower them to do so.

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OCTOBER 20, 2012

To create as much public good as possible, philanthropists need information about the performance of potential grantees: whether they have clear, measurable goals and the organizational capacity to realize them.

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MARCH 1, 2012

Chamber of Commerce’s Corporate Disability Employment Summit, Harkin called on the CEOs and business owners in the audience to join him in setting the goal of increasing the number of Americans with disabilities in the workforce from 4.9 million to 6 million by 2015.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

They reached over 270,000 teens last year primarily on the open internet and have the goal to reach 2,000,000 this year. A project based environment where they can interact with others, pursue their passion, learn, and have fun doing it. FreshBrain is already making great progress.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Most importantly, he walked me through how to frame the goal of any agreement with another organization, and to think through scenarios of how it might go sour. I needed help with business negotiations and software licensing and Gerry jumped in teaching me everything I know about doing business. He called these “imaginary horribles.”

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

If the Treaty passed with these three fixes, we think that it would be an effective treaty that would meet the social goals of the WBU to greatly improve access to reading for people with print disabilities. Alternative B qualifies this issue so much as to make it ineffective.

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MARCH 4, 2007

The goal of the meeting was to talk about ways to advance crucial goals of the UN with help from the technology community, especially poverty reduction. I've decided to work on this, not as an alternative to the enabling environment goals but to complete them. A cogent vision could mobilize some substantial resources.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

It supports the Sustainable Development Goals, which mention inclusiveness repeatedly, especially in the context of education. · . · It supports international human rights treaty commitments, especially the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. · It is politically popular.

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MARCH 14, 2012

The meeting wasn’t only about technical improvements, though attendees were incredibly enthusiastic and detailed in discussing changes that would have greatest impact in their day-to-day and long-term project goals. From a technical perspective, the most exciting theme of the event was the idea of creating a Martus “ecosystem” of tools.

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APRIL 6, 2007

Since I come from the Silicon Valley venture world, I'm familiar with a capital market that is tough, but very much provides incentive to accomplish the goal of maximizing financial returns to investors.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The Marrakesh Treaty was signed last year, and now the efforts are ramping up to ratify and implement the Treaty, with the goal of helping overcome the book famine faced by people with print disabilities. We also ended up talking about many other issues around getting more books to disabled people, the common goal of all of the attendees.

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JUNE 8, 2015

Our goal is not to make gobs of money, it’s to make maximum social impact while breaking even. You’ve come to the right place: Benetech. We are Silicon Valley’s deliberately nonprofit software company. Benetech is organized as a nonprofit, but run like a business.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Telling the story of why technology matters to real people is essential to accomplishing our mission goals. My goal is see more voices emerge from Benetech: to keep my founder's voice going (and still answering my own email), but to see the distinctive voices of our other leaders and projects come through.

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JUNE 10, 2011

If the groups we're working with don't succeed, then we don't succeed. Selection bias was one of Patrick's core scientific topics: the tendency of humans to believe that the information they get represents the big picture.

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JUNE 8, 2010

The Goal The goal is pretty clear: insuring that every person on the planet with a serious print disability has access to the books and other printed material that they need to get an education, make a living and be included in society. This update explains my reasoning. Remember, IANAL (I am not a lawyer).

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JANUARY 11, 2013

Looking ahead, our goals are to increase collaboration with partners in Arabic-speaking countries so as to reach a larger base of users who would benefit from Bookshare and to grow our library of Arabic titles.

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JANUARY 17, 2014

As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. One of our goals is to lower the cost of making an image accessible by at least a factor of ten.

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MAY 16, 2010

These planners say that Miradi makes it much easier to report detailed biodiversity objectives to their national environmental agencies and share these goals with conservation colleagues in the neighboring park.

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JULY 9, 2012

Our staff and volunteer team is dedicated to equality of access, and you remind us very well that we're making progress on that goal! Thanks to Annette, Diane, Judy and Dornetta for agreeing to share your comments with the world.

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