Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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Literacy eBook United Kingdom Accessibility 158

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Their first project is a secondary school for 1,200 girls in Afghanistan where the female literacy rate is only 12%. Also known as Project Wonkhai, the school opened it’s doors in March 2009. I gave $25 [which will provide 1 student with textbooks and other supplies for 1 year].

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Twitter Afghanistan Literacy Nonprofit 191

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Many volunteer managers cite recruitment as their greatest challenge; however, Brudney and Meijs (2009) contend that “the preoccupation with recruitment distracts attention and resources from the management and retention of volunteers” (p. Annette is a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at ASU. Sources: Brudney, J.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The winner will be chosen at random and announced on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009. Darius is currently a law student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy , and an Editor of the California Law Review.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Those who envision what could be possible by having Benetech apply innovative technology to the areas of Literacy, Human Rights, and the Environment, and who enable us to explore new opportunities for creating social good. students with print disabilities. As a nonprofit, different types of funding fuel our work. and Catherine T.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Reviewing where we were at the beginning of 2009, it’s amazing to see the growth in impact that Benetech and our team have had in the world. The amazing thing about serving 100,000 students right now is that our commitment to the U.S. Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity.

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