Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

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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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And funding opportunities, I’ve experienced, start to kind of just roll in. ” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. We then gave them access to referrals and you know what, 90% of the students did not follow up on the referrals. They want to invest more time, more resources.

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