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Robin Seaman, Agent of Inclusion

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

People with disabilities like blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, physical limitations and returning vets with brain injuries -- anyone who cannot simply pick up a printed book and read it. You all might have heard something about Robin’s dedication to helping people with disabilities that affect reading.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As the founder of the largest library for people who are blind or who have other significant disabilities that prevent them from reading printed texts (such as dyslexia or brain injuries), I think this is a terrible idea. That would pretty much defeat the purpose of having a library.

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July Cause Awareness: Disability Pride Month

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That’s why every July in the United States, it’s important to observe Disability Pride Month! As more and more activist organizations began to gain traction, it became clear that the nation needed to adopt more comprehensive civil rights legislation to increase independence and fully integrate people with disabilities into U.S.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL). million grant from the U.S.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

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And the headline was that this $471 billion was a new record for charitable giving in the United States. And foundations this 19% includes both, you know, national foundations and family foundations. It might be harder if you’re a national organization. It’s how my brain works. Steven: I love that.

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

in the United States rather receive 20% of all giving. We won the Audience Award which led to a lot of national attention being on national television tens of thousands of dollars in donations from people we had never heard of. Eighty-five percent of them have budgets less than a half a million dollars.

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