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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L. This is a huge legal victory!

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

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But, by eventually following Donna’s advice and talking to the Office of Special Education Programs in DC, we discovered the funding and the way forward for Bookshare to begin to realize its potential. Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?” Thank you, George and Donna, for helping us make real our dreams of service!

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Tracy Justesen visits Benetech

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Department of Education includes overseeing OSEP, the people who are funding our Bookshare for Education project to serve every student with a print disability in the United States. He had spotted the Frontline PBS special on our work in Guatemala, which had led to him deciding he wanted to visit us. Tracy's brief at the U.S.

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10 Ways to Find Monthly Donors for Your Small Nonprofit

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Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. For every four monthly gifts of $25, we are able to enroll one student from that list into our Learning for Literacy program – empowering them with vital knowledge and skills to change their futures!

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Reader Appreciation Day: Beth's Big Give - Congrats to Epic Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Blandford Nature Center : Maria is raising funds for the organization in a very innovate (and tough) way. Education And More : Has a mission to help educate the children and reduce poverty in Guatemala. Not For Sale works to educate about, expose and eradicate modern day slavery, because no one should be for sale. Suggested by Kare.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

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This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. This event was very exciting, as we have never previously received federal funding for Bookshare.org. OSEP told us on a Sunday that we needed to start serving students for free right away.

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Meet Donna Callejon, Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Donna Callejon with kids in village in Guatemala - the houses, latrines, etc are being built partly with Global Giving support. Before GlobalGiving I spent a few years helping to build the Washington Area Women's Foundation - and that's when I started becoming a "student' of philanthropy. Do you typically fund American projects?

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