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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

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Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.

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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

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In September 2007, the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) selected our successful Bookshare library as the provider of accessible materials to every student in the U.S. with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. There are some 7.5

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

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Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. copyright law. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

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Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. December 2007 (11). November 2007 (12).

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories

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What’s more, the charity has trained some of its staff members to shoot video using inexpensive cameras, with the goal of creating a library of footage that it can use to create fresh online videos for years to come. November 2007 um 14:17 Uhr veröffentlicht und wurde unter video camera abgelegt. Feed verfolgen.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories

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What’s more, the charity has trained some of its staff members to shoot video using inexpensive cameras, with the goal of creating a library of footage that it can use to create fresh online videos for years to come. November 2007 um 14:17 Uhr veröffentlicht und wurde unter video camera abgelegt. Feed verfolgen.