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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

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It also matches philanthropists with volunteer opportunities and funding recommendations. The community itself plays a role in building a peaceful community. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. It uses a crowd-funding matching system like the famous Kiva.org system.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Pointed out that most of the public does not know what social entrepreneurship is, and that in the nonprofit world it is such a buzzword that all groups seeking funds are saying they are social entrepreneurs. Paolo Coelho (Brazilian author, The Alchemist ) talked about what we aren't willing to talk about: the role of love in what we do.