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Leveraged Freedom Chair | MIT Public Service Center - 25 Years
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Skip to main content. MIT Public Service Center - 25 Years. Video: Overview of Leveraged Freedom Chair. What inspired you to get involved with this work? What impact have you achieved on the communities you serve? Approximately 60 people in countries ranging from India to Haiti are currently using the LFC, and we are preparing to scale our distribution and bring the product to many more people around the world in the next year. How did the PSC play a role in your work? Tish Scolnik '10. Learn more about ...
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McKinlay | NATRC.info
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Assistive Technology Loan Library. Nevada Assistive Technology for Employment Summit. Resources for Educational Applications. Agents of change, not recipients of change. February 5, 2016. February 5, 2016. Accessibility isn’t about accommodations, its about being able to participate in shaping our society. It’s Our Story. Having a new mainstream portable device that has great accessibility built-in (but still has plenty of room for improvement) rings hollow when the services you need to use aren’t ...
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Blog | Impact&Scale
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The Oversight Paradox: Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater. Ensuring accountability in development work is a difficult but necessary process, generating overhead cost that can often be criticized by potential donors, even though it can ultimately improve the effectiveness of funds spent. Yet, as a further challenge to those seeking solutions to accountability problems, some organizations have found that the very process of accountability can undermine their basic goals and operations. Yesterday D...
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Jack | Impact&Scale
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The Oversight Paradox: Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater. Ensuring accountability in development work is a difficult but necessary process, generating overhead cost that can often be criticized by potential donors, even though it can ultimately improve the effectiveness of funds spent. Yet, as a further challenge to those seeking solutions to accountability problems, some organizations have found that the very process of accountability can undermine their basic goals and operations.
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About | Impact&Scale
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Is a program of Groupshot. Supported by Tufts University’s Institute for Global Leadership. Importantly, as the success rates of social enterprise start-ups is still being understood, we believe that low cost, rapid product and design oriented research that starts with context can lead to more successful, sustainable, and scalable enterprises at a lower financial and social cost than speculative pilots and rapid scale-ups. Adam White, Creator. Please wait while tweets load.
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Patents for Humanity Awards 2015 | USPTO
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Jump to Main Content. United States Patent and Trademark Office - An Agency of the Department of Commerce. Enter the text you wish to search for. Types of Patent Applications. Types of Patent Applications Home. Provisional Application for a Patent. Using Legal Services Home. Intellectual Property Rights Overseas:Toolkits. Intellectual Property Rights Overseas:Toolkits Home. Patent Cooperation Treaty Home. Patent Prosecution Highway Home. Priority Document Exchange (PDX). Patent Search (Search for Patents).
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We Will Find A Way Blog | We Will Find A Way
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August 27, 2016. It’s tough to get close to a beach without access. From an overlook, I get a taste of the full view, smell, and sounds. Just a tantalizing taste. But a taste isn’t enough. The stinging stopped immediately, but the gesture lingered. A kind soul read my distress signals and provided relief. May we all do the same, some day, for some body, some time soon. August 23, 2016. My father asked at breakfast after a bad night. Shouldn’t there be one centralized resource? There isn’t, but there shou...
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Mario Bollini has work experience
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Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT). Cambridge, MA. June 2012 - present. Cofounder, Chief Technology Officer. Overseeing production and commercialization of the Leveraged Freedom Chair, a novel lever powered wheelchair for developing countries. Scaling up manufacturing in India, implementing quality control framework, and organizing logistics for international distribution. Participating in business planning and fundraising through the MassChallenge start-up incubator. Worked on distributed ...
