Beneficent Technology Inc DBA Benetech

“Two benetech directors, james fruchterman and james kleckner, are also directors and have financial interests in raf technology, inc., a for-profit company located in redmond, wa.”

“At least one week prior to filing return, the 990 is emailed to all Board Members with requests for comments or questions. CFO also meets with the CEO for further 990 review prior to filing.”

“Employees and Directors receive Benetechs Conflict of Interest Policy annually and must submit an acknowledgment to Human Resources. CEO and CFO submit additional annual written Conflict of Interest letters to the Board of Directors.”

“CEO and CFO salaries are determined by the Board of Directors based on performance and comparable data from: CompData, Guide Star, Non-Profit Times Salary Survey, Professionals for Non-Profits Salary Range Survey and Consultant-Supplied Hi Tech Data. The comparable data is also used for key employee salary guidelines. All employee salaries other than CEO and CFO are approved by CEO and Vice President of Human Resources.”

“Annual audited financials are made available to the public by posting to Benetech's website after Board approval. Available upon request are: Audited financials, governing documents and conflict of interest policy.”

“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Route 66 Literacy: Route 66 Literacy is a web-based program that makes it easy for any literate person to teach adolescent and adult beginning readers with developmental disabilities to read. The program combines engaging, age-appropriate lessons, exercises and effective feedback with a unique teacher-tutor model-one that requires no special training. By incorporating expert pedagogy and one to one interaction, Route 66 Literacy creates new pathways for beginning readers to gain independence and to pursue further educational and vocational opportunities. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Benetech Labs:Benetech Labs was established in order to create new scalable technology enterprises for social impact. In partnership with communities of field leaders and stakeholders, technologists, and social entrepreneurs, the Labs is where the Benetech team builds high-impact technology solutions that change lives. Some examples of our projects, include:Code Alliance: Founded as SocialCoding4Good in 2011, Code Alliance was relaunched in 2015 with a fresh approach to dramatically reshaping the tech volunteer landscape. There are many nonprofits and social-good programs in the world that need the help of professional technologists, but their resources do not often allow for it. As a result, the causes they are working on, from civic engagement and education to poverty alleviation and the environment, suffer. At the same time, professional technologists are eager to help work on these important social challenges, but often struggle to find the right match for both their passion and skills. In order to address these challenges we've built new standard operating procedures around technology for high social impact. Code Alliance is focused on building capacity for nonprofits to better make use of hi-tech volunteers, providing a new framework of opportunities to better leverage corporate volunteering programs, as well as engaging and matching highly skilled and motivated volunteers in a more curated and targeted way.SecureApp: In response to increasing demand from our partners in the human rights field, Benetech is in the process of creating our own mobile surveying tool. At its core, a secureApp enables an organization to devise a custom mobile survey template, with a variety of question types (including drop-down, free-form, radio buttons) and collect information privately and securely. In line with our experience working with human rights activists, our tool emphasizes security, building encryption in to the back end. Through many years of engagement with international and grassroots human rights defenders, we have come to learn that security and privacy are key components of a usable tool for these populations, for whom data is their most valuable asset.”

“Services provided by companies primarily for design engineering, financial audit and tax preparation, data entry, and temporary accounting and administration assistance.”

“Rent, telephone, office supplies, equipment, liability insurance, postage, freight, receptionist, hr, and it services.”

“Fundraising expenses in column D represents costs incurred for seeking general support funding. Foundation research and bid and proposal expenses of $766,777 are included in column C, Management and general expenses, as part of the organization's overhead costs.”