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Two Leaders Join Benetech’s Senior Team!

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For more than a decade, Nadine has worked at the intersection of policy and media in major markets including New York, Chicago and Washington, DC. She was the Assistant Director of Communications at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and then head of media for Foreign Affairs magazine in New York.

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Delivering Bestsellers to the Bookshare Community

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Most of the books I work with are books requested by students and titles from the New York Times (NYT) bestsellers list. Bookshare’s collection of more than 80,000 books, newspapers and magazines, is free to qualified U.S. students thanks to support from the U.S. Bookshare members in the U.S.

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Carrie Karnos, recipient of the 2006 James H. Veale Humanitarian Award.

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Here's the letter from the editor of Matilda Ziegler Magazine, which explains why Carrie was deserving of this award: A Letter from the Editor New York City Dec. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, which funds this magazine as well as eye research programs at universities across the United States.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine. Ugandan LGBTI activist and Martus user Richard Lusimbo at the 2014 RightsCon human rights conference.

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As some of you know, we started providing newspapers and magazines through Bookshare.org as a prototype project with NFB's Newline project. Since the NFB convention in Atlanta, I've been periodically downloading the national magazines that have been made available. This morning I downloaded The New York Times.

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