News

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

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