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Blogs
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Meet Our 2014 Summer Interns—Part 1
This is the second year of our formal Summer Internship Program. Once again, it’s been our pleasure to work with…
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Team-Up for Textbooks: Volunteer to Help Students with Disabilities
Across the U.S., thousands of students with print disabilities will start their school year without the textbooks they need for…
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Unlocking Technology-for-Good Innovation
At Benetech, we advance technology applications that empower and protect underprivileged populations, and that also have the potential to become…
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Exploring Data for Impact
The world is undergoing a data revolution, and the social sector is no exception. Mobile devices are breaking down the…
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Thank You, Gerardo!
This post originally appeared on Jim Fruchterman's Beneblog. The Benetech team has just bid goodbye to VP of Engineering Gerardo…
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Jim Fruchterman Discusses How Open Source Sparks Innovation and Advances Social Good, on Opensource.com
Adopting an open source philosophy has proven to be quite effective when furthering technology-for-good, notes online magazine Opensource.com in an…
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Recent highlights
2023
- Business Mirror: An ebook Library for Those with Reading Barriers
- School Library Journal: Serving Blind and Low-Vision Children Well Benefits All Students. Here Are Suggestions.
- Publisher’s Weekly: Lerner Publishing Group’s New Partnership Centers Accessibility
- Publishing Perspectives: Pearson Named A Benetech Global Certified Accessible Publisher
- National Federation of the Blind (NFB): Getting Books on Time with Bookshare
- BBC News: Visually-impaired Nottingham Law Student Praises Book Scheme
2022
- Government Technology: DoE Grant to Fund Digital Materials for Disabled Students
- Forbes: How AI Is Being Used To Help Blind Students ‘Visualize’ Graphs And Charts
- K-12 Dive: Nonprofit Uses AI to Make STEM Materials More Accessible
- Edutopia: Tools for Supporting Students With Reading Disabilities
- Eyes on Success Podcast: 2214 Bookshare Reader for Smart Speakers
- AppleVis Podcast: AppleVis Extra #85: Hema Natarajan Discusses the Upcoming Bookshare Reader Suite for Web, Mobile, and Smart Speaker
- Duke Fuqua Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship: Why We’re Excited About Benetech’s Impact Potential
- K-12 Dive: 3 Inclusive Education Myths Busted