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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Benetech Brand careers communications GC hiring intellectual property IP job legal counsel media nonprofit policy social enterprise tech4good' We are incredibly fortunate and excited to have both Nadine and Elaine joining Benetech! This post originally appeared on Benetech''s Blog.

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AUGUST 24, 2017

Here is the statement that will accompany our vote: EME should not become a W3C Recommendation without adding provisions that safeguard the rights of accessibility and security researchers to do their job without risking prosecution under the DMCA and similar national legislation.These types of provisions are already implemented around patents connected (..)

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

They made a great team: Steve was an enthusiastic salesman/CEO, passionate about building up Kenya through good IT jobs, and Carol ran the team. She was Steve’s operational head, and they had just become engaged. Carol Wanjiku Daproim went on to great success. Unfortunately, early last year, Steve got sick.

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JULY 29, 2011

He wants to provide these students with a part-time job that provides for their school fees, the purchase of a PC and enough money to send some home. Steve hires people from disadvantaged backgrounds, both from the poorer parts of Nairobi as well as university students with impoverished rural backgrounds and people with disabilities.

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AUGUST 6, 2010

It's probably not a coincidence that the Obama Administration is focusing efforts on entrepreneurship in the Muslim world: there's nothing like jobs to provide a moderating influence on a society. I know I'll be watching to see if Raja's bold idea takes root: seems like a promising approach to sustainable social good.

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JUNE 8, 2015

Check out our job postings and apply now ! So if you are driven to make a real difference from a leadership position, at the unique intersection of technology and social change—and you are willing to work on delivering maximum social good—then we want to hear from you. This post originally appeared on Benetech's Blog.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The majority of donations stay local, sourcing content in local languages and creating jobs. Free service with a “pay what you can” request (like Wikipedia’s) is a sustainable nonprofit model. We have hundreds of thousands of ebooks in a dozen languages already available globally.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

She says, “This job has greatly increased my self-esteem. Every employee on this project has a story to tell, some have moved on to get other jobs, like Vikas who is now a consultant at Tata Consultancy Services after having worked in the Bookshare-Worth Trust project. I now feel even I can help people living in America!!”

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APRIL 15, 2009

Mauer does a great job in capturing the advocacy position of the Reading Rights Coalition. And, the Authors Guild is suffering because the NFB and Reading Rights Coalition has done a great job of articulating the differences. This is a case of dueling moral high grounds. How does society choose between competing moral high grounds?

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

His job is to explore new frontiers of technology for secure fact-finding by human rights groups and journalists. As a result, my job as an engineer for good is a blast. We’ve just hired Enrique Piracés, most recently with Human Rights Watch, as the new Vice President of our rapidly growing Human Rights Program.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Previously Virginia's secretary of technology, Chopra will "promote technological innovation to help the country meet its goals from job creation, to reducing health care costs, to protecting the homeland," according to the White house. Silicon Valley heavy Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media thinks Obama made a great choice.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

I'm fascinated not only with the big questions in the social entrepreneurship field, but also the practical practices of doing the job of social entrepreneur better. Do you have ideas for reducing your environmental impact while getting the job done? One of those practices is how to travel as cost effectively as possible.

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APRIL 23, 2010

The Benetech team worked closely with the team at the Liberian TRC, who did an incredible job of collecting data about human rights violations during Liberia's civil conflict. We are excited about the commitment to transparency and science demonstrated by this data release.

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MARCH 1, 2012

Harkin is also seeking collaborations with business and social enterprise leaders to ensure that federal policymaking is producing real results on the ground in the form of jobs for people with disabilities.

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JUNE 13, 2009

I was influenced back in 1976, when I was considering a job with IBM, by reading a quote from TJ Watson (Sr or Jr) about how if you took care of the customer, the business takes care of itself. I'm not going to quit my day job in customer service. Our government's public servants have been released to their jobs better.

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APRIL 26, 2009

Carlos was frank about the focus in Washington on creating jobs. If you talk about independent living, then the reaction is thinking about creating home healthcare worker jobs. Social innovation is broader and apparently easier to sell. Something that piqued my interest was the Summer of Service.

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MAY 28, 2008

I was another example of how highly successful social enterprises typically succeed by doing a great job on price and quality: many (most?) But, if you can employ disabled people and do a terrific job, what a powerful message that sends to society, which believe disabled people aren't capable.

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AUGUST 20, 2007

Our job is to use science to arrive at the best possible answers to this question and generate facts that will withstand attack from those who seek to downplay the scale of real atrocities or defend human rights abusers in courts and tribunals. We need to recognize the principled nature of some of these arguments.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

The movie is excellent: it does a good job of covering the issues around the establishment of the court and its early years including its earliest cases. One of the top issues that came out during our recent strategy meeting was the team's eagerness to hear about other projects. John Bolton, the U.S.

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DECEMBER 18, 2011

My job is so much fun! I get to spend most of my time talking to people about social good: what we're doing with technology, what our partners are doing and what the many cool people we get to meet are doing along the way.

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JUNE 21, 2009

I thought Arianna Huffington did a good job as the opening keynoter hitting on the service theme. Enjoyed my day in Berkeley yesterday at the Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp 2009. They had more than 1000 folks show up to talk about service, nonprofits and social action. Announcing All For Good was a big piece of the event, of course.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Photo credit: Steve Francis So, I got to tell the TEDxVolcano attendees my personal experience of my favorite explosion, the Percheron Rocket: my first job out of school. I wouldn't want to count on Twitter to replace email or the web: it's just the wrong tool for the jobs those tools do better. Opening doors to speaking gigs.

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MAY 14, 2011

We want to help environmentalists do a better job of stewarding our precious natural assets. We are expert witnesses in war crimes trials, helping bring an end to impunity. Our Environmental team is helping to bring results-based management to the conservation and biodiversity field. And we’re nowhere near done!

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JANUARY 11, 2013

I’m very proud of our Bookshare team who did an amazing job tackling huge challenges to become the leading provider of accessible Arabic and one of the world’s experts in digital Arabic. EAVI will purchase Bookshare memberships for any of its members interested in subscribing to our service.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

If you're looking for a new job, look for a company or organization that offers the chance to work on Stuff That Matters. There is a new wave of leaders who want business to both make money and do right by society and the planet. And, the same spirit of innovation for a purpose is affecting nonprofits and government as well.

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MAY 17, 2013

In 1985, he started Fundación Paraguaya in order to develop social innovations that could help create jobs and increase family income among the country’s poor. It was a daring venture: Paraguay was then still under a military dictatorship and it was extremely difficult to advance social work.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

We therefore have a large selection of computer science titles as well as books that prepare readers to take civil service and bank exams or to apply for government jobs, which are often available to people with disabilities. For example, in developing countries, we aim to help our members pursue educational and employment opportunities.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

We're hiring like crazy: we have more than ten job openings posted. We're just three weeks into this new world for Benetech. I think we've signed up more schools and students for Bookshare.org in the last three weeks than in the last three years! 99,999 more books to go!

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But, I expect that 75% of the job will be about analyzing the legal issues from our programs, especially in our Global Literacy Program, which includes Bookshare, the largest digital library for the blind and dyslexic in the U.S., as well as our Human Rights Program, which supports activists fighting injustice around the world.

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MARCH 22, 2007

Chinese who are blind would like to get jobs in more diversified fields than the traditional massage. Therefore, the English chats play a large role in helping Chinese who are blind or visually impaired to become more competitive in the job market. This student will likely get a job in interpreting next year.

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DECEMBER 21, 2006

However, Benetech's job is not to advocate for specific policy changes: our job is to use science and technology to help illuminate the truth to better inform social, policy and justicial processes. As Bangladesh approaches its crucial election in the near term, it will be interesting to see what the next government does differently.

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APRIL 20, 2007

Carl went to explain how much this is now the era of the entrepreneur, with half of the new jobs in the U.S. After all, small businesses generate a whole bunch of those great jobs created by entrepreneurial energy, and they rarely scale. created by new ventures.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

One of the great rewards of my job is receiving copies of those many emails praising our team or our software or our content for the difference we’ve made. We’re working on some of the biggest and toughest problems in the world, and we’re having a significant positive impact on the people we’re helping.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2004

I hit a major personal milestone last week: I stepped down from my last executive job in the for-profit high technology sector. For the last few years, it has been a part-time job as I have had a very strong Controller in Alwynn Lewis. I was the founding CEO of RAF Technology, Inc. Last Friday was my last day as RAF's CFO.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2007

It's an early prototype, but I could see the potential of this approach to teaching social skills for job readiness. It has broader applications, but we were definitely talking about using this for people with disabilities that affect their interpersonal behavior. The second project is from Australia.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

After a couple of hours of working at it, the job was still not done. In less than ten minutes, the job was finished! You see, my dad was trying to install a deadbolt in our front door. Dad let our sister, Anne, then 14, to try her hand at the project.

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JULY 22, 2006

So, this website takes you through the process for a given job and shows you roughly what to expect. It turns out that figuring out whether working helps or hurts you is much more complicated than figuring out your taxes! I liked the demonstration Bryon showed: straightforward language around a very complex and inaccessible topic.

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