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2023

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

2021

Good Housekeeping: 30-Day Giving Challenge
Publishing Perspectives: Toronto’s Annick Press: ‘Global Certified Accessible’ in Canadian Ebooks
Philanthropy News Digest: Building long-term partnerships with nonprofits to scale impact: Lessons from sustained funding relationships
WIRED: The Best Assistive Technology for Dyslexics
School Library Journal: Low Vision, High Contrast: Books for Kids That Need Contrasting Colors
PBS: Education Counts: Bookshare
Nonprofit Quarterly: Are Your Organization and its Board “Access Able”?
The Economist: AI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses
ITSPMagazine The Academy: Making STE(A)M Accessible for Students With Disabilities | Redefining Education With Luísa Monteiro-Oliveira And Brad Turner
K-12 Dive: Why We Can’t Drop the Ball on Edtech Now
Disability Insider: ‘Bookshare’ Survey: Accessible technology vital for students with reading barriers
White Bear Press: Technology is a Game-changer
Education Talk Radio: How the Pandemic Has Impacted Students with Reading Barriers
eSchool News: Supporting students with reading challenges during COVID
Science Editor: The Important Role of the Editor in Making Science Accessible
We Are Teachers: The 950,000 Ebook Library You Didn’t Know You Needed (Plus 4 Ways Teachers Are Using it in the Classroom)
The Connaught Telegraph: NCBI Marks World Book Day
Irish Times: Breaking barriers: Supporting students with disabilities to progress to university
Smart Brief on Special Education: Build an Engaged Inclusive E-Reading Community
Oprah Magazine: 16 Virtual Volunteer Opportunities That’ll Make a Meaningful Difference
Wall Street Journal: AI Emerges as Crucial Tool for Groups Seeking Justice for Syria War Crimes

2020

Sonoma Family Life Magazine: Free eBooks for the Visually Impaired
AC&E Journal: Inspiring Special Education Solutions: Lessons for the COVID-19 Era
Newz Hook: Technology Enables this 100% Blind Student to Pursue a Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Nonprofit Pro: Fidelity Charitable Grants Nearly 13m to Aid Nonprofits
Irish Independent: Access to 500,000 academic books for students with print disabilities
Entrepreneur: Distance Learning is a ‘Nightmare’ for Many Special Needs Kids. These Businesses Are Creating Tools to Help
Nonprofit Quarterly: Getting Social Enterprise Right: An Integrated Revenue Business Model
Mashable: Helpful at-home school resources for kids with learning and attention difficulties
Yahoo! Life: 5 Free Back to School Resources for Kids With Disabilities
Sacramento Bee: Stressed Out and Overwhelmed by Distance Learning? Here are some resources that might help
CNN: Boost your mental and physical health during the pandemic by volunteering virtually
Houston Chronicle: Internet Resources Help Teachers, Parents Navigate At-Home Education
Education Talk Radio: Rethinking Reading with Assistive Technology during COVID-19 Crisis
Yahoo! News: 9 Ways You Can Virtually Volunteer From Home Right Now
We Are Teachers: 34 Awesome Free (or Low-Cost) Website for Practicing Reading
The News Minute: Meet the class 10 boy who fought with the Kerala govt to write his board exam using tech
Chicago Tribune: Commentary: A Moroccan orphan finds the American dream is also accessible
Brookings: How Edtech can Help Leapfrog Progress in Education

2019

The New York Times: Screens in the Classroom: Tools or Temptation?
Inside Higher Education: The Sharing Solution
Philippine Daily Inquirer: Bookshare: A Distinct Way to Enjoy Reading
TechCentral.ie: Visually impaired students to access academic texts with NCBI’s digital library
Silicon Republic: NCBI launches ‘cutting-edge’ digital accessible library
The Scholarly Kitchen: Why Inclusion Matters to Technology and Technology Matters to Inclusion
Tried and True Teaching Tools: Make Reading Accessible for ALL
CBS Austin: Bookshare: helping remove reading barriers, and serving as a resource for all students!
Nonprofit Quarterly: Bay Area Nonprofit Collaborative Pilots High-Tech Social Service Referral System
Edscoop: Turn Struggling Readers into Leaders with Assistive Technology
EdSurge: Benetech, Macmillan Pioneer Effort to Make All Digital Books ‘Born Accessible’
Forbes: How One Nonprofit is Improving the Lives of Students with “Reading Barriers”
Publishing Perspectives: Macmillan Learning Earns Benetech’s First ‘Global Certified Accessible’ Designation
Inside Higher Education: Macmillan Earns Ebook Accessibility Certification
Forbes: Using Text To Speech Technology To Assist Dyslexic Students
edCircuit: Supporting Students with Reading Barriers in the Classroom
Waco Tribune-Herald: Free online book database helps students who struggle to read

2018

San Angelo Standard Times: San Angelo Students Struggling with Reading Get Help with Online Library
Education Week: Are Students with Reading Barriers Ready to Start the New School Year?
Nonprofit Quarterly: The Not-Even-Remotely-New Notion of “Nonprofit Judo”
TechCrunch: Fireside Chat with Jim Fruchterman (benetech)
Cool Blind Tech: Bookshare’s 390,000 Books are Now Available for People with Blindness in India
Wired: YouTube Keeps Deleting Evidence of Syrian Chemical Weapon Attack
Nonprofit Quarterly: Benetech and Bay Area Nonprofits Seek to Address the “Pain Points” of 211
Edsource: Illuminating Science for Blind Students with Help from the Latest Tech Devices.
TechCrunch: A $6 Trillion Wake Up Call for the Tech Industry
Edutopia: Accommodating Students with Dyslexia
Edweek: Want to Enrich Students’s Reading Lives? Don’t Dismiss Audiobooks
Fast Company: Erasing History: YouTube Deletion of Syrian War Videos Concerns Human Rights Groups

2017

Recode: We need a software revolution for the greater social good
Forbes: Overcoming Dyslexia: Lessons Learned from an Ivy Leaguer
Huffpost: Women in Tech: An interview with Anh Bui
Geekwire: Dream the Accessible Dream
Edweek: Edtech Company Wins Ed Dept. Award to Create Accessible Books
Tech Crunch: Palo Alto nonprofit Benetech wins a $42.5M Dept. of Education grant, a nod to founder Jim Fruchterman’s quest to help the blind
Edscoop: Education Department awards $42.5M grant to grow online library of accessible books
Edsurge: Benetech Awarded $42.5M Grant from ED to Expand Library of Accessible Books
Publishers Weekly: New Standards Program Emerges to Judge E-books’ Accessibility for Visually Impaired
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Open Source Software Is Philanthropy
Nonprofit Quarterly: Behind the Benetech Model: Applying Time, Money, and Tech for Social Benefit
Education Dive: School districts can drive demand for accessible content from publishers
Mashable: Printed Sex Organs Help Blind Students Learn About Sexual Health
DevEx: The technology sector could make or break disability inclusion
New York Times: YouTube Removes Videos Showing Atrocities in Syria

More Highlights

Washington Post: Beyond Dyslexia Fonts: What Parents Can Do to Help Kids Who Struggle with Reading
Quartz: Silicon Valley Wants to Save the World by Investing in Nonprofits as if they Were Startups
Fast Company: 3D-Printed Sex Organs Are Designed To Help Blind Students In Sex Ed
Huffington Post: So Much Progress in Print Disabilities but Still So Far to Go
OpenSource.com: Developer Opportunities to Code for Good
The Guardian: ‘Move Fast and Break Things’ Doesn’t Work When Lives are at Stake