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JUNE 13, 2009

All for Good and Service Q: You're just announcing All For Good : what's the goal? The President is focusing on service. Q: What's the difference between All for Good and other service websites like VolunteerMatch, Network for Good and Obama's Serve.gov? We're all in this together in service. All for Good makes that easy.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor and Statistics estimated earlier this year that about 3 million veterans, or 14 percent of the total veteran population, had a service-connected disability. For veterans with visual impairments, traumatic brain injuries or other disabilities, reading standard print is difficult, if not impossible.

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JULY 28, 2014

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.

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APRIL 20, 2013

Remarks Here are my remarks to the Leadership Conference on receiving the Migel Medal from Carl Augusto and Paul Schroeder of AFB: It’s a great honor to address the leadership of this field, and receive the Migel Medal in recognition of our shared commitment to service to the community of people who are blind or visually impaired.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We’ve teamed up with Mifos , The Community for Open Source Microfinance , an open source platform currently being used in 20 countries to deliver financial services to more than a million people and with HP Social Innovation, a Random Hacks of Kindness core partner as well as our own.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Benetech’s Bookshare library continues to expand its international service providing accessible books and publications to members in more than 30 countries. Our international Bookshare service recently announced new partnerships with three organizations that are reaching out to readers with print disabilities in their home countries.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

To continue to provide our services, and to explore new ways in which targeted technological applications could address unmet needs of disadvantaged communities, we definitely need your help. Our work is made possible thanks to the generosity of our supporters.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

She runs a for-profit social enterprise named Daproim that provides data entry services using disadvantaged students as their primary workforce. So, if you’re searching for great data entry services for outsourcing, make your money work twice as hard like we do. Carol Wanjiku is the CEO of Daproim. We go way back with her firm.

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MARCH 27, 2011

Benetech gets the majority of its funding from revenues: from product and services sales paid for by our users (or third-party payers who buy our services for our users). Benetech has been expanding its impact rapidly over the last few years, and we need a dynamic executive to join our senior leadership team.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

For example, this summer, SocialCoding4Good organized “code sprints” at Google and LinkedIn during the companies’ volunteer service events, GoogleServe and LinkedIn for Good InDay. SocialCoding4Good is a force multiplier: the nonprofit organizations we work with deliver the social impact; SocialCoding4Good makes them stronger.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Moreover, Bookshare basically breaks even in the United States thanks to contracts to provide the services, from the U.S. We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. government and states like Texas. The Lavelle Fund also supports programs benefiting the developing world.

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JANUARY 1, 2011

Benetech has a record of success in securing funding, creating partnerships, and delivering products and services that are useful tools for the social sector. We value professionalism, dedication and service. Benetech seeks to create leaders by fostering personal learning, growth and service. 2 We get stuff done.

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MARCH 1, 2012

The ADA prohibits discrimination and mandates that Americans be accorded equality in access to employment, goods, services, and other opportunities. As example, one strong idea that came up was having staffing services and temp agencies establish benchmarks for hiring workers with disabilities.

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APRIL 26, 2009

They have three areas of focus: Service. Michelle Obama was a big part of Public Allies and is a huge fan of national service Public Private partnerships. The service angle is not service for its own sake. They see this as a big deal, and expect to upgrade Volunteer.gov to really rally more volunteer service.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Everyday, we have to turn down students who are disadvantaged and need reading accommodations, but are not “disadvantaged enough” to be considered qualified for Bookshare services. Our next bold step is to diffuse this innovation into the service of all of humanity who might need it!

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Footnote: NLS stands for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, part of the U.S. They also operate Web Braille, an online Braille ebook service with roughly ten thousand titles. We take all complaints seriously! Library of Congress and the nation's number one provider of books for blind people.

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MARCH 29, 2016

From children with disabilities to African human rights activists, you will have direct exposure to how Benetech’s products and services change lives for the better. From executives to summer interns, from engineers and product managers, to communications and outreach professionals, we have a wide range of opportunities.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Bookshare actively cooperates with the Library of Congress in the provision of Bookshare’s services to people with disabilities, through its National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress (NLS).

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OCTOBER 25, 2008

we get to hear the story of a cell phone banking service that gives the poor effective banking services in Kenya when the country's banks have declined to serve them. The common thread is prepaid cell service. In M-Pesa is our hippo! The Philippines has had cell phone banking for years.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Her prior guide dog had not been all that successful and she had to switch after just two years (5-9 being more typical for the length of guiding service). She told an enthralled audience all about the ten stages of guide dog training and the process of being matched up with a dog.

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MARCH 10, 2014

We’re witnessing how data-driven insights are becoming a prerequisite in decision-making and in the practical work of policy and social service organizations. Being more adaptive and less rigid also creates the opportunity for serendipity.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

At Benetech, we always ask ourselves how our existing successful programs can reach more people who need our services and how we can apply technology in new ways to enrich and improve more lives.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Disabled Student Services offices can't supervise the students they serve: there's not enough resources for that, and college students don't need babysitting.

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JUNE 12, 2014

we at Benetech were concerned that the Authors Guild’s arguments in their appeal would remove the legal authorization for the services that we provide, relegating people with disabilities to second-class status. copyright law, also known as the Chafee Amendment.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Guest blog by Pavi Mehta, Volunteer Coordinator Open source champion Mozilla.org kicked off seven days of service earlier this month: September 14-21st thousands of people donated over 6000 hours of their time to good causes in their communities as part of Mozilla Service Week.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Among the people I’m privileged to call a colleague here at Benetech is Viji Dilip, the International Program Coordinator for our Bookshare International service. I’m proud to work with people like Viji who brings her personal commitment to service with her to work each day.

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MAY 12, 2009

Why shouldn’t students in Puerto Rico benefit from our technology and services? From the week of March 30 to April 4, five Bookshare training sessions took place in four of the island’s Service Centers for Special Education. They took place in Las Piedras, Bayamon, Hormigueros, and Ponce.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

These partners work with us to offer Bookshare to their constituents, helping ensure good service as well as compliance with the rules of the road. Route 66 Literacy Did you know that we have another fabulous online service that helps adolescent and adult beginning readers learn to read?

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JUNE 19, 2013

We provide library services in rich countries for US$75 per year per person. We seek to work with whatever device is in the possession of every disabled person, whatever is in their pocket or bag. The digital nature of our work makes it cost effective to serve many people without spending a royal treasury.

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JUNE 21, 2009

They had more than 1000 folks show up to talk about service, nonprofits and social action. 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. Announcing All For Good was a big piece of the event, of course.

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MARCH 13, 2011

An exciting development is the recent offering of hosting services (through the help of PKP's main partner university, Simon Fraser U. Amazingly enough, more than 8500 journals are published with OJS, with institutions mainly running their own servers.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Elaine has the perfect experience and passion to help us grow as we continue to navigate a variety of legal issues related to our work, including intellectual property and service and partnership contracts, among many others.

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JUNE 3, 2011

BRAC can use its tax-exempt dividends to fund public service projects related to bracNet’s wireless internet connectivity (or for other public purposes, as it decides). He's written several papers on his approach, including this one entitled Retooling Capitalism.

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JULY 15, 2011

Huduma makes it easy for people to complain about social services delivery (like, I went to the clinic but they don't have the drug I need). One of the first areas was a budget tracking tools for Kenya, to make it easier for people to learn about budgeted amounts for their areas.

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APRIL 18, 2014

We’re a nonprofit technology company on a mission to address unmet social needs by providing targeted software tools and services to groups left underserved by the market, such as human rights activists and students with learning differences.

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AUGUST 18, 2008

They offer a range of services for their fee. He noted their fees are low, but they don't offer all of the services of Tides. I've heard it costs roughly 9% of donations, but that's not authoritative. I also know a tech project that has used the FJC Fiscal Sponsorship Program , based in New York.

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