Get Fully Funded
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
For the purposes of our exercise, let’s say our story takes place in India. In our story, the resolution would be raising enough funds to provide every school child with a nutritional breakfast and lunch. In a small village in India, 9 year-old Fatima lives in a tiny hut with her parents Priya and Amit. Your donation of $7.32
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create. Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 8, 2020
To confront these challenges, a nonprofit should ensure that its digital storytelling adheres to four essential guideposts: Transparency speaks to a nonprofit’s ability to demonstrate its legitimacy as a good steward of donated funds by, for example, sharing its audited financial statements and other, similar information.
Global Giving
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. Just last month, Google launched Tez , an “audio QR” payment solution for mobile phone users in India. 1,171,000,000.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
This is why the making of accessible books is a classic example of market failure: if publishers could make a lot of money selling braille, large print, audio, and fully accessible textbooks, we wouldn’t need a copyright exception. Don’t load the Treaty up on with arcane processes that waste scarce funding for no benefit.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. These ebooks can be instantly turned into the accessible format needed by the student with a disability, such as braille, enlarged print, or our most common format, audio through a computerized synthetic voice.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,
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