Benetech
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Grants
9
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Total Awarded
$3,711,062
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Years
2003 - 2018
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Categories
Grants
2018 ( 3 months)
$9,701
Benetech is a nonprofit that empowers communities through software for social good and has been a leader in the use of technology to improve education for people with disabilities. The Benetech team engages the education community, leading technology companies, and policy makers to explore new ways to make STEM accessible to students of all abilities.
For this event Benetech is working in collaboration with The Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley to host a panel of Fellows with an array of experience and expertise regarding access to STEM education. Jim Fruchterman, an electrical engineer turned tech and social entrepreneur, is Founder and CEO of Benetech; Manu Prakash is a physical biologist turned inventor and an Assistant Professor at Stanford University; and Debbie Bial is an education strategist and Founder and President of the Posse Foundation based in New York City. These Fellows, from their varying areas of expertise, all actively facilitate access to STEM education for core underrepresented populations. This engagement is aimed at uncovering common barriers and discovering holistic solutions that can accelerate the breaking down of some of the hurdles in STEM education. The event is free to the public and aimed at educators, students, policymakers, tech companies, technologists, and foundations.
2017 (1 year)
$150,000
Benetech empowers communities with software for social good. The award provides core support to the organization’s Human Rights Program (HRP) which enables, protects, and amplifies the efforts of human rights defenders with strategic technology interventions. It is a “multidirectional bridge” between Silicon Valley and human rights communities that connects defenders of human rights to leading technology companies and decision-makers, while also building open source software that has not been met by the commercial technology market and bringing it to the human rights organizations.
2014 (3 years)
$500,000
Silicon Valley-based Benetech develops innovative and effective technology applications for unmet social needs. The grant will provide support to the core activities of the organization’s Human Rights program, including strengthening and enhancing its product development and security audits, capacity building for product end-users, and the launch of a new Human Rights Documentation Help Desk.
2011 (3 years)
$650,000
To use science and technology to promote human rights (over three years).
2008 (3 years)
$880,000
To use science and technology to promote human rights (over three years).
2008 (1 year 11 months)
$59,000
To support the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria to implement its Martus software to gather and utilize human rights information.
2005 (3 years)
$800,000
In support of using science and technology to promote human rights (over three years).
2004 (1 year 7 months)
$412,362
To expand and deepen the core activities of the Science and Human Rights Program (over three years).
2003 (3 years 5 months)
$250,000
To create a secure reporting system for documenting human rights abuses in Colombia and other countries.
