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APRIL 4, 2010

This Summit will be my swan song in a leadership role at the Alliance. I joined the board ten years ago, and my term limits were extended to act in the chair's role these past two years, following in the big shoes of social enterprise rock stars like Chuck Lief (Greyston) and Charles King (Housing Works).

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Of course, our role in this field is as scientists helping get at the truth using statistics. I'm betting our team will end up working on a case where the statistics can play an important role in a trial. Patrick believes strongly that this is a key new human rights institution that is now reasonably well established.

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MARCH 27, 2011

A cover letter that articulates why this person wants to work for Benetech in this role and a resume is all we need. So, if you know someone highly capable, who would be energized by the challenge, send them our way. More detailed instructions are on our Employment Opportunities web page.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Gómez and Ramírez were each sentenced to the maximum term of 40 years in prison for their role in García’s disappearance. You can read more about the verdict here.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

And so, the first insight for me was the role of adults with learning disabilities in their own rights struggle. I would not expect the parents of blind children to drive the rights struggle for blind people, but I had taken the role of parents as the prime movers in the LD movement for given.

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

Our role as technologists is to provide the tools that empower them to do so. This iterative method helps us focus on building products that are responsive to real needs Treat users as customers, not recipients of charity People in challenging situations must invest their time and limited resources to improve their lives.

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APRIL 16, 2011

I know that all of the Bookshare community will join me in extending our condolences to Melanie's family for the loss of this outstanding young woman, role model and lover of reading. "She just used a different way to see."

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AUGUST 26, 2013

On August 1, 2013, I testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet on the subject “ Innovation in America: The Role of Technology.”

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

By the time she was hired as a proofreader and scanner in December 2008, Mayrie had played a key role in contributing more than 1,000 accessible books to the collection. Mayrie, who was blind, began working with Bookshare as a volunteer in August 2006 and earned her membership by scanning and submitting books to the collection.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

If we and the publishing industry succeed in this, then libraries like Bookshare will gradually move to filling the same kind of secondary role that public libraries fulfill for the general public: access to books for those too poor to purchase them, or for those who need to do research and don''t care to purchase every book they consult.

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APRIL 24, 2018

And stuck was the operative word: I stayed in that role for seven years. When I cofounded my first (successful) Silicon Valley startup, Calera, I was really young and clueless. I was ten years younger than my two cofounders, and they stuck me with being the chief financial officer.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

About the new edition of the Book Industry Study Group’s Guide to Accessible Publishing, just released yesterday and dedicated to Robin, in honor of her role as the principal editor. About the dozens of tributes we read at Bookshare from students, from teachers, from leaders, from publishers, all appreciating Robin’s work.

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JUNE 8, 2015

Technology is playing an ever larger role in increasing respect for human rights and delivering better services, and we have two rare opportunities to lead world-class tech-for-good programs. Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs.

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AUGUST 4, 2008

He's a great role model for students with disabilities, as well as successful tech entrepreneurs! Bernie grew up as a visually impaired kid and Oregon and rejected the low expectations of the then-education institutions and went to college and on to become an engineer and successful entrepreneur.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Many of our books come straight from socially minded publishers at this point, but our volunteers still play a crucial role, and Bookshare would not be what it is today without them. Using a provision of U.S.

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AUGUST 26, 2008

I recently took on the role of chairing the Social Enterprise Alliance, the main grassroots group representing social enterprises in the U.S. and Canada. One of our new strategies to respond to the increasing demand for social enterprise knowledge is to encourage chapters to form. The initial chapters have just been starting this year.

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JUNE 21, 2009

She was much more on Facebook marketing message, but of course that's her role at FB. Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook had the tough gig of presenting a lunch keynote outside under a tent in lower Sproul Plaza (mucho noise and people talking). Lots of enthusiastic FB users in the audience helped make her points.

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MAY 27, 2015

From being on the original drafting committee of what became the Marrakesh Treaty, to being part of the negotiations, to helping convince Stevie Wonder to come to Marrakesh if there was a successful treaty (there was and he came), to helping people with print disabilities in countries all over the world gain access to the books they need for education, (..)

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MARCH 13, 2009

Betsy Beaumon, formerly of BEA Systems and numerous other high tech roles (including founding her own social enterprise in the 1990s), has joined us as our new Vice President and General Manager of Literacy Programs. We have a great addition to our leadership team at Benetech. The press release on the appointment has much more detail.

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OCTOBER 7, 2011

The story illustrates the crucial role that scientists can play in analyzing large collections of human rights data and presenting findings that can help hold perpetrators accountable for terrible crimes.

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MAY 17, 2013

To my inquiry about his current role Martín replied: “Well, you know how things happen… I was asked by our new President to serve as his chief of staff until August 2013, when he finishes his term. So I asked for a leave of absence from Fundación Paraguaya and dove in.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

IISE is getting ready for their second year and are actively looking for catalysts who want to be role models and discussion partners for the participants, inspiring them to be the force of positive social change in our world. Sabriye and Paul never cease to amaze me with their innovative ideas and high energy.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

I want to especially highlight the role of the Oak Foundation in supporting this transition and continuing to support both Benetech and HRDAG for the next two years. This growth in human rights work, supported by strong donor relationships, makes it possible to carry out a spinoff at a position of great strength!

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Of course, part of the role is the bread-and-butter work of a nonprofit GC: day-to-day transactions, reviewing our 990, providing counsel to our senior team and board. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue.

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JUNE 23, 2008

Peter then stepped into the role of alpha Bookshare.org user and support guy. When we sold Arkenstone to another company, Peter offered to fill our technical support needs on an interim basis. This coverage really helped with a difficult transition. His photo was our user photo (see the picture above).

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

By redefining the role of philanthropy, we are bridging the digital divide, reshaping communities and moving successfully toward a ZeroDivide. We encourage community-based nonprofit organizations, community leaders, corporate partners and dedicated individuals to join us in creating infinite possibilities.

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OCTOBER 30, 2006

The individual or team behind the venture should also have identified the role(s) in which an additional graduate student resource would be valuable. Though there is no particular restriction on industry, the goal of the venture must include a focus on social impact as well as financial sustainability.

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JULY 7, 2008

So, I'm sure NFB will keep pushing: that's an essential role of strong advocates! But, the majority of the blind cannot use it at all. And, Amazon hasn't made any indication I'm aware of to address this problem.

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JUNE 25, 2007

food aid played a big role in the destruction of Somalia couple of decades ago (helping lead to the continuing problems of today). My example of this is the abusive use of foreign aid in ways that support the giver and damage the recipient.

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JANUARY 28, 2007

I like to think that inviting social entrepreneurs and other representatives of wider society has played a role in this. Over the five years I've attended the WEF, the level of protesting has gone way down. Of course, the issues are different and the U.S. presence seems lower. I did run into a nice protester on the street.

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DECEMBER 19, 2006

Visually impaired his entire life, he was a tireless advocate for the blind and visually impaired as well as a shining role model. Professor Vinod Sena was a retired professor of English literature at the University of Delhi.

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JUNE 13, 2007

It was a great hour of conversation around social change and the tech community's role. Santa Clara University invited Bill Coleman (founder of BEA and Cassatt), Jeff Miller (VC at Redpoint Ventures) and me to speak recently on the topic of "Working to Change the World."

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AUGUST 30, 2009

The first session isn't until 10 am in deference to the geeks staying up all night playing werewolf ( a role playing game which is incredibly addictive)! I actually slept really well, considering I went to sleep between 230 and 330 am both nights I was there.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2007

is an online role playing game, called Reachout Central. It's an early prototype, but I could see the potential of this approach to teaching social skills for job readiness. The second project is from Australia.

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MAY 8, 2008

Elephants play a significant role in Hindu mythology and religion. After the frame is up, they cover the frame with what looks like thatching: so you have this giant thatched tower (where the painters can work out of the elements). The most popular god seems to be Ganesha, the elephant-headed god who by legend is the son of Shiva and Parvati.

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MAY 18, 2008

He has taken on delivering print access as his personal project after his retirement from a senior police force role. The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy.

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APRIL 24, 2006

Patrick's role as CTO will have strong exposure outside Benetech as well as our primary tech leadership job. Finding the right person for CTO is one of my biggest goals this year, and it didn't dawn on me initially that Patrick wanted to move onto a broader stage from his position as the head of Benetech's Human Rights Program.

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