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Blogs
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Benetech and Lighthouse Guild Announce New Program Offering Free Ebooks to Students Who Are Visually Impaired
The new Spotlight Gateway program is able to provide Bookshare for free to qualifying students via an existing award from…
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Bookshare Members Now Have Access to Over 500,000 Ebooks
Benetech accelerates toward a future in which all digital content is Born Accessible On November 29, 2016, Bookshare hit a…
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Bringing Literacy to Suraj and His Classmates in India
Meet Suraj. He is eight years old and in the third standard at the School for Blind Boys in Bhosari,…
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Benetech Delivers 10 Million Accessible Ebooks
Benetech’s Bookshare technology makes reading possible for over 425,000 individuals unable to read standard print Empowers students and adults to…
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10 Million Book Downloads Today Provides a 10x Model for Tomorrow
Many years ago I had the wild idea to start a deliberately nonprofit technology company in the heart of Silicon…
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George Kerscher Joins Benetech as Senior Advisor for Global Literacy
Benetech announced today that Dr. George Kerscher has joined the organization as Senior Advisor to the Benetech Global Literacy program.…
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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
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