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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Launched in 2019 as a joint project of the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy and the Sergey Brin Family Foundation , ASAP supports collaboration, open science, and early data sharing at scale, with a focus on three areas: PD functional genomics , neuro-immune interactions , and circuitry and brain-body interactions.

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Bookshare International’s Viji Dilip Profiled in Magazine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She was told that a brain tumor was pressing on her optic nerve and may cause her to become blind. Vjii now works with organizations in Canada and the United Kingdom as well as in India, where Bookshare employs four people to scan and upload books. In countries outside the U.S.,

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Join a Nonprofit Tech User Group This August

Tech Soup

Social media surgeries are informal drop-in sessions where anyone from the voluntary and community sector can come and pick the brains of our ‘surgeons’ (helpful volunteers who understand the world of Twitter, Facebook, and the rest). Manchester, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery. net2welly Aug meetup.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare is helping Kevin— who had suffered a brain injury—to keep up with his school work. The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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