Daniel Ben-Horin

Ben-Horin was born to Jewish parents from Latvia and Ukraine, who both emigrated separately to British Mandatory Palestine and met on a kibbutz in 1930. Ben-Horin's father was a Zionist activist and journalist. After the couple moved to Queens, New York in 1945, his mother earned an M.A. from Columbia University and became a probation officer for New York City.{{cite web|author=Ben-Horin, Daniel|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/jobs/25boss.html|title=A Serious Side of Fun|newspaper=The New York Times|date=25 November 2007|accessdate=25 September 2017}} He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

After college, Ben-Horin lived in Phoenix, Arizona for six years, where he worked at The Arizona Republic before becoming an editor of the Phoenix New Times.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ys9NAQAAIAAJ&q=Daniel+Ben+Horin+arizona+Republic The Nation] - Volume 216, page 238 In 1974, Ben-Horin moved to San Francisco. He has written for publications such as The Nation,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1cmwpp439GcC&dq=Daniel+Ben+Horin+the+nation&pg=PA346|title=A Trumpet to Arms: Alternative Media in America|author=Armstrong, David|publisher=South End Press|year=1981|isbn=9780896081932|page=346}} Mother Jones{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pyYyAQAAIAAJ&q=Daniel+Ben+Horin+The+Song+of+the+Canary|title=Mother Jones|publisher=Foundation for National Progress|year=1979|page=16}} and Redbook.[https://books.google.com/books?id=NF1VAAAAMAAJ&q=Daniel+Ben+Horin+Redbook PC World], Volume 5 (1987), page 269

In 1977 he wrote the article "Television Without Tears", a socialist analysis of television and its role in popular culture and ideology, which was published in the journal Socialist Revolution.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8zseAQAAMAAJ&q=Daniel+Ben-Horin|title=Television Without Tears |first1=Daniel |last1=Ben Horin|work=Australian Left Review |number=63–67|publisher=D.B. Young Pty.|year=1978}}Ben-Horin, Daniel, [http://ro.uow.edu.au/alr/vol1/iss65/6/ TV Without Tears - Outline of a Socialist Approach to Popular Television (full article)], Australian Left Review, 1(65), 1978, 26-39.

From 1981-84, Ben-Horin served as the Executive Director of Media Alliance, a nonprofit association of media workers in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1985, Ben-Horin became active on the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL),{{cite book|author=Hawken, Paul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lv7TazHZFAIC&dq=Daniel+Ben-Horin&pg=PT183|date=May 10, 2007|title=Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World |publisher=Penguin Publishing|isbn=9781101202326}} where he encountered technologists who wanted to share their knowledge with nonprofits, but had no outlet to do so.The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by Howard Rheingold, pages 261-262 (Addison-Wesley 1993) The following year, Ben-Horin approached WELL members with a printer problem and was overwhelmed by the assistance he received in resolving the issue. This led to him establishing CompuMentor in San Francisco in September 1986,{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/managementreview9v10amer|quote=Daniel Ben-Horin.|title=Management Review|year=1914|publisher=American Management Association}} with the objective of trying to "help nonprofit organizations use available technical tools to produce better work and to activate a truly skilled sector of the population--technically adept people--by getting them into the community to do what they do best--talk about technology and teaching."{{cite book|author=Feldman, Diane|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWBHAAAAMAAJ&q=Daniel+Ben-Horin|title=A Match Made in Computer Heaven |year = 1977|publisher=Management Review|isbn = 9780231038393}}

In April 2009, Ben-Horin received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN), and two months later the Ashoka Foundation elected Ben-Horin as a Senior Fellow for his work.{{cite web|url= https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1714680/000121390018013820/f1apos2018_techsoup.htm|title=TechSoup Global |publisher= United States Securities and Exchange Commission |date=October 11, 2018}} The NonProfit Times named Ben-Horin in its Top 50 most influential people in the nonprofit sector four years in a row from 2004 to 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/8-1-15_Top50PI.pdf|title=Top 4-50 Equity and Influence Fueled Nation's Top Executives|work=Non Profit Times|date=August 2015|accessdate=30 September 2017}}

Ben-Horin was the CEO of TechSoup until 2013,{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/TechSoup-sees-upside-for-nonprofits-in-downturn-3247111.php|title=TechSoup sees upside for nonprofits in downturn|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=22 March 2009|accessdate=25 September 2017}} when he became Founder and Chief Instigator,{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=45766924&privcapId=848336|title=Daniel Ben-Horin|website=Bloomberg News|agency=Bloomberg News|accessdate=25 September 2017}} with Rebecca Masisak replacing him as CEO.{{cite web|url= https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/TechSoup-sees-upside-for-nonprofits-in-downturn-3247111.php/|title="TechSoup sees upside for nonprofits in downturn" |last= Guthrie |first= Julian |publisher= SF Gate |date=March 22, 2009}} As of 2017, TechSoup Global had a staff of 212 and an annual operating budget of $34 million.{{cite web|url= https://www.guidestar.org/profile/94-3070617 |title=TechSoup|publisher=GuideStar.org|accessdate=25 September 2017}}

In 2013, Ben-Horin returned to his first love, writing fiction. His novel, Substantial Justice, was published in July 2020 by Rare Bird Books.{{cite web|url= https://rarebirdlit.com/substantial-justice-by-daniel-ben-horin/|title=" Substantial Justice by Daniel Ben-Horin"|publisher= Rare Bird|date=July 14, 2020}} Substantial Justice received positive reviews.{{cite web|url= https://48hills.org/2020/08/books-a-fun-ride-through-sf-and-norcal-in-the-1980s/|title="A fun ride through SF and NorCal in the 1980s"|last= Redmond |first= Tim |publisher= 48hills|date=August 31, 2020}} Kirkus Reviews called it a “remarkable first novel”.{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/daniel-ben-horin/substantial-justice/|title="Substantial Justice: A deftly composed and highly enjoyable crime story "|publisher= Kirkus|date=July 14, 2020}}

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• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120118212942/http://fora.tv/2011/10/25/Leading_Large-Scale_Change_Lessons_from_the_Arab_Spring “Leading Large-Scale Change: Lessons from the Arab Spring”]}}, Daniel Ben-Horin, The Compass Leadership Summit, October 25, 2011, Santa Barbara, California
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130121050736/http://www.livestream.com/pdf2011/video?clipId=pla_50164308-96c7-4354-baaa-8f928114f5cf “Networks of Resources, Networks of Ideas, Connecting the Dots”], Daniel Ben-Horin, Personal Democracy Forum 2011, June 7, 2011, New York, New York
• [https://archive.org/details/DanielBen-horin-Sektor3.0 "Conference Sektor 3.0"] Daniel Ben-Horin opening remarks at conference in Warsaw, Poland May 23–24, 2011
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qdvpRv0U1k "Technology for Local Empowerment," Third Global Forum on Telecentres] Daniel Ben-Horin opening remarks at conference in Santiago, Chile, April 5, 2011
• [http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R902171000 "Tech Philanthropy," KQED-FM Public Radio Forum] Podcast interview with Daniel Ben-Horin, February 17, 2009
• [http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/05/tactical-philanthropy-podcast-daniel-ben-horin "Tactical Philanthropy Podcast: Daniel-Ben Horin"] Podcast interview by Sean Stannard-Stockton, Tactical Philanthropy, May 25, 2007

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