Award Copyright Share Student 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 20, 2013
The Migel Medal, often called the highest honor in the blindness field, is awarded annually to one or two individuals whose careers exemplify exceptional accomplishments in the field. Helen Keller, who worked for AFB for many years, was on the original award board for its first twenty years, starting in 1937.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 3, 2011
Today I’m delighted to share the exciting news about the new award we just received from OSEP to build upon Bookshare’s success and significantly improve access for students with disabilities. Bookshare is allowed to serve only students with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
As always, I’m delighted to share the latest Benetech highlights as we work on these ambitious 10X dreams! With Bookshare, our student members can access and read the books they need—in the classroom, at home, and on the go—and have a fair opportunity to succeed at school just like their peers without disabilities.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 2, 2012
This summer, we will have three students working on Bookshare software for our users underwritten by Google’s Summer of Code program. Our vision is to provide equal opportunities for students with disabilities and help them overcome a major barrier to accessing to the most valuable prize in society: a great education. copyright law.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
I’d like to share our experience with Lavelle, where they took a series of calculated risks in grantmaking. 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
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
I’m excited to share highlights from our work and its significance for the multitudes we serve. students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. We also received our largest-ever award for human rights, a two-year, $2.2 While the majority of our members are U.S.
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 17, 2011
But I think it fits the graduating class of American Humanics (AH) students, all 18 of them. The 18 students being recognized at the annual graduation celebration will have completed all requirements during the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2011. Okay, okay — I stole this slogan from the U.S. Marine Corps. So, sue me!
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