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Nonprofit Advocacy Can Be a Force Multiplier for Social Change

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

You see, several months later, the federal Department of Education challenged us to compete against a well-respected national nonprofit 60 times our size in a bid to provide accessible educational materials for US students who are blind, dyslexic, or otherwise print disabled. I was wrong. million contract to do just that.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. and James L. Route 66 pairs this reading content with teaching tools and learning exercises, effectively empowering any literate person to become an early reading instructor.

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Celebrating Free Agents: Mark Horvath Launches WeAreVisible

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first met Mark Horvath on Twitter and later face-to-face last December during a trip down the California coast during the holidays. Mark founded InvisiblePeople.tv , a nationally-recognized nonprofit that fights homelessness using the power of social media. Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago). Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

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California Community Foundation. Literacy, particularly from birth through 3rd grade, is their primary focus because reading skills form the foundation for all childhood learning. The National Education Association Foundation is a national nonprofit and philanthropic organization based in Washington, DC. Robin Hood.

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Robin Seaman, Agent of Inclusion

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

On February 16th in Los Altos, California, I shared these thoughts on Robin Seaman’s impact on the world with her family and friends at her Celebration of Life. We had just won the national contract to supply ALL disabled students in the United States, with ALL the books they needed to read to succeed in school, for free.

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