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December 6, 2007 — Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group
(HRDAG) has released a report which provides a scientific estimation
of the number of missing people in the Colombian department or state of
Casanare, including those who have never been documented. The report will
help guide further investigations of homicides and missing persons across
Colombia where data collection efforts are vital to understanding the magnitude,
trends and patterns of this phenomenon.
The report, "Missing People In Casanare"
estimates that the total number of missing persons in Casanare from 1986-2007 is 2,553 compared
to the 1,544 persons reported missing during this period. This analysis
suggests that between thirty and forty percent of missing persons in Casanare
were unreported during this period. While the rate of undocumented missing
persons in Casanare does not represent the rate that could be found in all of
Colombia's 32 departments, the report argues that additional data should be
gathered throughout the country and made available for rigorous analysis by
statisticians and social scientists. More information on the report can be found on
Colombia project page of the HRDAG
web site.
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November 12, 2007 — The New York Times has quoted Benetech CEO Jim Fruchterman in a holiday Giving Section story on Silicon Valley
entrepreneurs who are using their business acumen to transform their charitable giving to mission-oriented investing for
both a financial and social return. The story, "With
Sudden Wealth, the Desire for Sudden Impact" includes Fruchterman's observation that an increasing number of people
are deploying capital in for-profit initiatives that have a social outcome.
"Within a 10-mile radius of Palo Alto, there are a couple of thousand families that could give $50 million to a social
cause and fundamentally change some issue," Fruchterman said. "You could do a lot with $50 million, or even $10 million.
You could cure a disease, or revolutionize services to an impoverished part of the world."
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