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Meet the Nonprofit Hero Behind the Hardware: Charles Brennick

Tech Soup

Each year, the electronics reuse community awards an annual lifetime achievement award at its Electronics Reuse Conference. The winner of this year's award is Charles Brennick, the founder and executive director of the nonprofit refurbisher InterConnection. The previous award winners voted unanimously for him.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

On Monday morning, the 2004 National Book Award winners in fiction and nonfiction were made live on our Bookshare.org site, providing rapid access to these books to readers with disabilities. Announced in the middle of last week, these two new books are two outstanding accounts of remarkably different histories.

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Posts from the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

At last night's awards ceremonies, the highlight was seeing four short films on four of the Skoll Social entrepreneurs. Ann Cotton talked about why it is so crucial for girls to have access to education, and I learned even more about her drive for girls education in Africa.

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