Benetech is a Silicon Valley nonprofit technology company that develops software applications to address pressing social needs. Founded on the premise that the benefits of technology must reach all of humanity, the organization’s social enterprise business model aims to create financially sustainable projects that measure success in the number of lives changed for the better. Each of its program areas—Global Literacy, Human Rights, the Environment, and Benetech Labs—offers the greatest social impact on funds invested. Social entrepreneur and MacArthur Fellow Jim Fruchterman created Benetech in 2000 and leads the organization as its CEO.