eBook Philanthropy Student Technology 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Benetech has already solved this problem for students in the United States. We have the technology. We have the ebooks. The Global Treaty for the Blind makes it legal to create ebooks for people with disabilities without having to pay a royalty or getting permission. We can scale quickly. We have a new business model.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 27, 2014
“They get frustrated and don’t want to read,” she says, “but access to digital books and reading technologies changed all that for Zach.” Zach Bryant The change happened when Zach was in high school and his Assistive Technology teacher introduced him to Benetech’s Bookshare library. Thank you for your support!
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
It became a burden to his family and caregivers to constantly drop what they were doing to turn a page, so he began seeking out ebooks. It also demonstrates how each ebook that is added to the Bookshare collection is a brick in our members’ foundation of independence and inclusion. Eventually he had to ask others to turn pages for him.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create. Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. Even in the United States, this was true of probably a quarter of our student users.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 16, 2014
My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Consider third grade student Brennan Draves.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
As philanthropy wonk Lucy Bernholz writes , together, these changes add up to a new social economy: “[A] dynamic and diverse set of enterprises that deploy private resources to the creation and sustenance of public goods.” In my contribution to Ron’s book, I discuss the framework that guides us at Benetech, the technology nonprofit I lead.
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