Professional Volunteers

No matter what your professional background or area of expertise there are several exciting ways (both virtual and in-house) to engage with Benetech’s work as a volunteer.

We are currently looking for volunteers in the following areas:

• Volunteers who can provide crucial image descriptions for high school science textbooks
• Engineers to assist with programming, QA and research projects
• In-house volunteers to assist with a wide-range of activities ranging from chopping and scanning textbooks to writing synopses, proofreading priority books and assisting with documentation needs
• Executives and managers to help write business plans, financial projections, and launch social enterprise initiatives.
• Writers to help with grants, marketing materials and product documentation.
• Translators to help with updates to Martus software and documentation translations.
• Volunteers with marketing expertise to spearhead outreach to senior communities

If you are interested in exploring one of the opportunities above, have questions for us or other skills that you would like to offer, please write in to volunteers@benetech.org.

Bookshare Volunteers

Help us increase the reading material at Bookshare® by volunteering over the Internet. You can add to the collection by:

• Submitting scanned books.
• Preparing submitted books for publication on Bookshare, including proofreading and editing.
• Verify key book data, enter descriptive information, convert file formats, and more.

For details on becoming a Bookshare volunteer, please email us at volunteers@Bookshare.org.

Benetech® creates technology solutions to serve humanity:

• Bookshare We have formed the world's largest accessible digital library of scanned material for people with vision and reading disabilities.
• Route 66 Literacy This educational web-based program enables anyone who is literate to help teenagers and adults learn to read and write.
• Human Rights We assist human rights advocates by providing science and information technology, strengthening their pursuit of justice and reconciliation.
• Miradi We are developing a software tool designed specifically for the management of complex environmental projects.