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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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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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February Cause Awareness: Black History Month

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These nonprofits rely on funds from generous donors to keep their work going and to provide support to the Black community. They help hundreds of students every year and 96% of their classes consist of students who are people of color and 67% of their students identify as women. Donate to support their mission here.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

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One of the biggest changes to Bookshare in the last ten years has been in the area of education, through funding from the Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). At the close of 2012, we are five years into our work in education and are serving over 230,000 students.

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Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

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Bookshare is dramatically exceeding its five-year collection and member targets at the close of the fourth year of our Bookshare for Education (B4E) project funded by the U.S. Free professional development for school districts across the country in order to increase utilization of Bookshare and serve as many students as possible.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

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Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. The Bookshare promise to American students with disabilities is that if they need a book for education, Bookshare will ensure that they have it. Government funding is slim, and not available in most of the world.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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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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Big Meeting on the Treaty this Week!

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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.

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