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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In all seriousness, 2013 has been an incredibly busy and productive year for us. students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. I’m excited to share highlights from our work and its significance for the multitudes we serve. While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We celebrated the tenth anniversary of Bookshare—both online and with in real life—with gatherings of users, volunteers, partners, employees, and friends throughout the year. At the close of 2012, we are five years into our work in education and are serving over 230,000 students. Have an Android device? Is Spanish more your bag?

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What does a Purpose-Driven Company Look Like?

Saleforce Nonprofit

When the company found that factory workers lacked access to clean drinking water, it partnered with Planet Water Foundation to install purified water towers in several worker communities. In 2013, it became one of the first airlines to outfit a portion of its fleet with split scimitar winglets. awareness of My Special Aflac Duck.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And, Bookshare’s promise to K-12 students with these kinds of disabilities is that if they need specific titles for school, we’ll get them. This breakthrough instrument was negotiated in 2013 and has now been signed by over eighty countries. And so we campaigned for the Marrakesh Treaty. It makes a copyright exception like the U.S.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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