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- Begin With Books
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014/15 Prize
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2015/16 Prize
- Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
- EduApp4Syria Prize
- Enabling Writers Prize
- Grant Competition 2011
- Grant Competition 2014
- Leaders for Literacy
- No Lost Generation Summit Tech Prize
- Ready2Read Challenge
- Sign On For Literacy Prize
- Technology to Support Education in Crises & Conflict Prize
- Tracking & Tracing Books Prize
- UnrestrICTed Challenge
… results in children with disabilities.
Benetech’s president has a call to action for inclusion
At the Bay Area Makeathon last year, Google.org convened technologists and designers at TechShop in San Francisco, for 72 hours of writing code and designing prototypes for people with disabilities.Opening Literacy to All
There are an estimated 19 million children who are blind or have low vision on our planet, and 90 percent of them are in developing countries where resources are limited.Advancing Literacy Outcomes for Children with Disabilities in India: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Benetech is proud to join the international community and our partners in observance of International Day of Persons with Disabilities to promote awareness and mobilize support for the inclusion of...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 Potential of Technology to Level the Playing Field in Global Education
ACR GCD presents at the Association for Childhood Education International's "Breakthroughs in Education: Innovations in Equity, Access and Quality" virtual conference.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.Becoming Mrs. Van Allen
Christie Vilsack, senior advisor for international education at USAID, takes the TEDxFoggyBottom stage to explain how we can all help make a difference to improve education around the world.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.- ACR GCD in the News // The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine // October 1, 2014
Tools and resources to improve deaf educational access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
This research project will address the challenging research problem of meeting the educational needs of the deaf, who are underserved in education in general, and in STEM literacy, in particular. Book Boost: Access For All Challenge Summary
Learn more about ACR GCD and Pearson's Project Literacy's Book Boost: Access for All Challenge that seeks to drive innovation in publishing to solve for gaps in quality, accessible book titles.ACR GCD Unveils $6 Million Literacy Grant and Prize Competition
ACR GCD announces a second round of funding to unearth and champion technologies for improving child literacy.USAID and Partners launch programme to improve early grade reading
The U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission in Ghana, Pat Alsup, launched the initiative with a forum where the All Children Reading Grand Challenge awardees for Ghana presented their winning concepts.Qué Funciona para el Desarrollo / Arturo Aguilar
ACR GCD-funded innovator Qué Funciona para el Desarrollo shares their innovation to create community libraries for children and workshops to help support children's reading in Mexico City.Catholic Relief Services / Stu Letsatsi-Kojoana
ACR GCD-funded innovator Catholic Relief Services shares their innovation to use modern Braille technologies to deliver and improve reading for children who are blind/low vision in Lesotho.Resources for the Blind / Amy Mojica
ACR GCD-funded innovator Resources for the Blind shares their innovation to advocate for and create accessible reading materials for children who are blind/low vision.Perkins School for the Blind / Anne Hayes
The Perkins School for the Blind shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to leverage modern teaching methods and assistive technology to improve literacy among children with disabilities in Ghana.Sign On For Literacy Prize Announcement – Press Release in International Sign
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development announces five semi-finalists of the Sign On for Literacy prize. (Press release in International Sign).enuma – Sign On For Literacy prize semi-finalist
Sign On For Literacy prize semi-finalist enuma adds sign language functionality to KitKit School, a tablet-based early learning program, for children in Tanzania and Kenya.Manos Unidas: Sign On For Literacy prize finalist
Sign On For Literacy prize semi-finalist Manos Unidas' innovation will create a corpus of Nicaraguan Sign Language, including videos and Spanish translations and a language-learning mobile app.