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Help Wanted: Wildcards!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s hard for most organizations to accommodate nonstandard approaches to work. We help the people who most need it, not those who can most afford it. Well, we’re a nonprofit: organized as a charity. Are you someone who is burning to make a difference? Someone who values doing good over a whopping salary? What’s the catch?

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Miradi helped Elaina determine that sedimentation due to wildfires is the main threat to reefs in Guam’s Sella Bay and Cetti Bay. By using the concept models for the watershed plan, we can be comprehensive and see what other projects we should be engaged in and other organizations that should be involved.”

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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I needed help with business negotiations and software licensing and Gerry jumped in teaching me everything I know about doing business. He taught me that 95% of the time I didn’t need help from him or another attorney. Just last month, he helped me solve a knotty trademark and web domain challenge.

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Why You Don’t Want this Job!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And yet there are also amazing and fulfilling benefits—bringing the truth to light, making human rights defenders more powerful and helping victims find peace through acknowledgment, reconciliation and even, sometimes, justice. At Benetech, we’re looking for only the best of the best to take on the leadership of our Human Rights Program.

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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Gerardo helped Benetech dramatically increase our capacity to benefit larger populations by scaling our services, revamping our innovation process, and establishing a thriving network of industry partners and volunteers. Additionally, Gerardo helped conceive our major new effort to ignite new tech social enterprise through Benetech Labs.

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Work on the Biggest Social Challenges of Our Time!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Are you motivated by the power of technology as a force for good that can directly help the world’s poorest communities thrive? Other perks we offer include: Excellent employee benefits; Work-life balance; The ability to directly improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals around the world (and, with your help, millions).

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To do so, we definitely need your help. That’s why we were excited to participate in the Skoll Foundation’s second annual Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge , a fundraising campaign committed to strengthening the capacity of organizations like ours to accelerate impact on some of the most critical issues of our time.