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APRIL 20, 2013

And second, Donna McNear, the itinerant teacher of the visually impaired from Minnesota, who kept telling me that I had to go to Washington and talk to the Department of Education. Washington? We were following in his footsteps, on a path he helped create! Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?”

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MARCH 6, 2013

Why You Don’t Want this Job: You’ll have to show you have a unique combination of both social justice and technology cred; You’ll probably be paid half of what you’d be worth to a for-profit company; You’ll have to travel to both developing countries and Washington, D.C. and work often with people in miserable conditions (yes, in both places!);

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

An expert on agricultural economics and spatial analysis, Jerry most recently served as a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC, where he led major projects on food security and climate change issues.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

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. I think they will both make big contributions to building Benetech’s ability to deliver greater impact in the technology-for-good field.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

While I was at the ATIA conference in Florida, our Director of Marketing was in Washington DC at another conference. But, it's not just in Washington DC. Betsy Burgess got to run into Senator Harkin, who exclaimed "I love Bookshare!" For someone working in the disability field, hearing that (even secondhand!)

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NOVEMBER 18, 2007

Lisa go to Washington Lisa Friendly and I just spent a fascinating week in Washington. We need to now spend a lot more time acquainting Washington decision makers about why OSEP made an inspired choice in selecting Bookshare.org as the provider of books for print disabled students nationally. Department of Education).

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APRIL 14, 2009

I'm really looking forward to my first ever National Press Club talk in Washington D.C. coming up on April 29th. We have exciting news about Bookshare, and it's especially thrilling to be talking about an educational program that scales well and works.

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APRIL 26, 2009

I'm going to be heading to Washington DC this week to give a talk at the National Press Club on Bookshare and our new partnerships with universities and publishers. We've just been able to confirm Allan Adler of the Association of American Publishers as one of the participants. Should be very interesting.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

I just attended two days of meetings in Washington DC on the first year of the DIAGRAM Center , held at the Office of Special Education Programs in the Department of Education.

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DECEMBER 22, 2008

If you had told me two years ago that we'd be hosting someone from Washington at Benetech, I would have been surprised. My discussions with Hill staff and leaders from Washington encourage me to believe that equal access to education is a bi-partisan issue.

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MARCH 1, 2009

I'm between speaking four times in Illinois on Friday (will blog about that soon) and heading to Washington DC today (Sunday) for three days of meetings around Bookshare and social entrepreneurship. Somebody captured a great picture of Jimmy (which I asked him to send me) in full fencing gear during the tourney.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Just spent a week in Washington DC doing all kinds of things, including actual lobbying (it's fun!) as well as meeting with our Bookshare funders at the Department of Education.

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MAY 6, 2010

Nick Salafsky used the death of George Washington as an example of what happens when you don't use evidence in making decisions. The people attending all believe that we have to focus much more on conservation outcomes: are there more tigers? are there more gorillas? When that didn't work, they bled him again.

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JULY 22, 2010

This has been a really exciting week in Washington, DC, with the focus of today's 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. It's hard to imagine a world without the ADA, which was passed during my first year in the disability field.

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MAY 26, 2011

million they need to build the house and transport it to the Mall in Washington DC for the judging. Getting into the design of a net-zero house was a cool thought experiment for me, but the team is actually building their house right now. They’ve already raised $800k of the $1.1-1.2

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

The CBS team came to Palo Alto, as well as filming a Bookshare.org-using couple, Brian Miller and his wife Priscilla McKinley, in the Washington D.C. I think this is the first time we have had national coverage of Bookshare.org, which turned five years old this week! Thanks to our team and volunteers!

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Formerly the chief technology officer the nation's capital city, Washington DC, his job now is to direct "the policy and strategic planning of federal information technology investments and is responsible for oversight of federal technology spending," according to the White house.

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APRIL 26, 2009

Carlos was frank about the focus in Washington on creating jobs. The interesting thing here for me is that they aren't using the language of social entrepreneurship or social enteprise. Social innovation is broader and apparently easier to sell. Something that piqued my interest was the Summer of Service.

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AUGUST 10, 2005

A newspaper story had come out in the Washington Post about how the Valley had become more friendly to social issues and causes. We got some great local TV coverage this week, thanks to a referral from the Skoll Foundation and Community Foundation Silicon Valley.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2005

In early October, I'll be heading to Washington DC for a board meeting of the Social Enterprise Alliance , the group that promotes social enterprise among nonprofits, and then on to Seattle for a board meeting of RAF Technology, Inc., Of course, I'll be trying to arrange meetings with people in both Washingtons!

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Washington Square Magazine, which is published by Viji’s alma matter San Jose State University, included a profile of Viji in their most recent issue. The staff I work with at Benetech are committed to the communities that we serve with our technology.

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JANUARY 24, 2009

They had just take a group of students to Washington DC to meet Caltech alums working in science policy, but they want to go further. The leadership of the Y (including the ED, Athena Castro) was interested in exploring how to get Caltech students and faculty more involved in social and humanitarian science and technology work.

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DECEMBER 6, 2006

Dipendra has been a subscriber to Bookshare.org for our O'Reilly technical titles, but we're trying to move beyond these into serving a full range of books with publisher and author permissions.

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JUNE 13, 2009

A: For me specifically, government and social media (and not just Washington), social media, the Sunlight Foundation ( on government accountability and transparency, data.gov, etc.) People like me help get the word out. We need ways to make it easy, ways like All for Good. Q: What things are you working on?

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JULY 14, 2009

We have a new administration in Washington hungry for ideas that deliver results. We need to work together to make social enterprise a much bigger part of the solution to society’s problems. And we need your help to make that change.

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MARCH 15, 2009

Ignoring recommendations by organizers that disabled people not venture into the dense crowds and frigid weather expected on inauguration day, my friend Steph summoned me and three other girlfriends to Washington D.C. to make sure that she could attend the event. Wheels coming through!"

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

And much more… Washington, D.C. Even in the tough fiscal environment in Washington, we get good hearings from both Republicans and Democrats. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. The Marrakesh Treaty.

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