NTEN
APRIL 29, 2021
Launched in 2015 in partnership with Google Fiber , the Digital Inclusion Fellowship builds capacity and leadership in nonprofits to address digital inequity in their communities. Ellie Avis, a fellow in Josephine County, OR, launched a hotspot lending program that allows library patrons to bring their connectivity home.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 8, 2015
Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. You are someone who dreams about using your management and leadership skills and love of technology for social impact, exceeding the bounds of what a regular for-profit business can do. Check out our job postings and apply now !
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. We named this library Bookshare because it was created with an army of crowdsourcing volunteers, many of them blind people themselves, who scan the books using optical character recognition.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Benetech is tackling these issues on two fronts, thanks to the leadership of Enrique Piracés, who joined us last year from Human Rights Watch. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 16, 2014
Then I’ll share the latest stories on the impact of our tech volunteerism and human rights tech efforts as well our new tech leadership. He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. Bookshare has made my homework easier,” Brennan says.
Non Profit Quarterly
DECEMBER 14, 2021
A library in Oregon had similar concerns about the accessibility of technology during the pandemic: In order to volunteer with us right now, you basically have to have access to a device and the internet…which is not how it was in the past. The challenges of remote volunteering are front-of-mind for many volunteer managers.
Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 13, 2009
13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day Art in Action: Youth Leadership Training Program Mission: "Art in Action empowers youth leaders by engaging arts for social change through personal, social, political, and cultural education."
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