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Breaking down silos at the intersection of meaning and money
Kevin Jones convened impact investors and social entrepreneurs at the first Social Capital Markets conference in 2008. Now he says the value of SOCAP is the way it encourages attendees to find...Tech in Translation: Helping Deaf Children to Learn
Parents wonder, "Doesn't my child have the right to a full education? Many deaf people [here] are illiterate. The country is losing a wonderful resource," says Dr. Abdelhadi Soudi.The power of translation
For most Americans, communication is an oral endeavor. We learn to speak and read through sound, to distinguish between hard and soft "k", to make the hiss of a double "s," or slight lisp of a "th."USAID Grant Helps Create Marathi Books for Blind Kids
Palo Alto, Calif.,-based Benetech received a grant Feb. 5 by USAID to create “human-narrated audio” Marathi language books for blind children in Pune, India.Benetech Wins All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development Grant to Improve Literacy for Primary School Students with Disabilities in India
We are delighted to share that USAID, World Vision, and the Australian Government awarded Benetech a 2015 grant to improve literacy for primary school students who are blind in India.All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development Announces Winners of Literacy Innovations Competition
Fourteen winning innovations represent the most promising, creative and impactful solutions in literacy and were chosen from a competitive process that elicited 213 proposals from 50 countries.