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United Nations Issues Report on Deaths in Syria

Benetech Human Rights Program Examines Seven Data Bases to Identify Nearly 60,000 Killings The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) today released a report which provides an analysis of the total number of documented conflict-related killings in Syria between March 2011 and November 2012. The UN report is based on […]

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Benetech CEO Featured in Skoll Foundation Video

The Skoll Foundation has posted a story and a video on their website that features Benetech founder and CEO Jim Fruchterman. The story was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business Program. Entitled “Jim Fruchterman Now Matching High Tech Workers with Nonprofit Needs,” the video explores how mid-sized businesses can engage in social good. Interviewed by […]

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Guatemala Arrests Former Police Chief Linked To Disappearance of Activist

Benetech Statistician Provided Evidence Used To Convict Officers Under His Command Analysis of police documents by Benetech scientists provided evidence used to support the arrest of the former chief of the Guatemalan National Police who is accused of complicity in the 1984 disappearance of a union leader. The arrest of Hector Bol de la Cruz, 70, at […]

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Bookshare Showcases Student Technology and its Free, Federally Funded Accessible Book Initiative

DCPS Students with Disabilities Speak about Academic Equality, Higher Education, and Lifelong Learning at DC Public Library Students with print disabilities and administrators from the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), along with library and government officials, shared their stories and progress toward improving academic equality and lifelong learning through the use of technology at […]

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Robert Wexler Joins Benetech Board of Directors

Specialist in Advising Nonprofit Organizations and Their Donors Benetech is pleased to announce that attorney Robert Wexler has joined its board of directors. Wexler is a principal at Adler & Colvin, a firm specializing in the law of nonprofit organizations.  His practice focuses primarily on tax and corporate matters for nonprofits and their donors. Wexler […]

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