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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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2015 Jim Lynch Award Winner — Kyle Wiens of iFixit

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Each year the Electronics Reuse Conference awards a lifetime achievement award in my name (it's a long story on how that came to be). This year the award went to Kyle Wiens, the co-founder of iFixit. Library of Congress, working with the U.S. Kyle is only 30 years old but has done quite a lot already in his career.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories

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The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories

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The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign.