Adrianne Benton Furniss becomes Benton Executive Director (2013-present).
Benton publishes The New Network Compact: Making the IP Transition Work for Vulnerable Communities, which asks policymakers to make certain that our newest technologies continue to support some of our oldest values—accessibility, diversity, ubiquity, openness, competition, trustworthiness, interconnection, resiliency and robustness, speed, and innovation.
Charles Benton is honored with the Everett C. Parker Award from United Church of Christ’s Office of Communication, Inc.
Benton reports on National Broadband Plan progress, including universal service reform.
Alliance for Communications Democracy and Benton release nationwide Public, Educational, and Governmental Access Channels (PEG) study.
Joanne Hovis, President, CTC Technology and Energy, joins Benton’s Board of Directors.
A decade of transition has Adrianne Benton Furniss succeeding Cecilia Garcia as Executive Director in 2013; and the Chairmanship passing to longtime trustee, Leonard Jay Schrager, after Charles Benton’s death in April 2015. Benton makes critical decisions about its mission and tactics to concentrate on broadband, changing its name in 2019 to the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society to better reflect its core goal to bring open, affordable, high-performance broadband to all people in the U.S. to ensure a thriving democracy.
During the election of 2008, Benton releases a comprehensive, federal strategic plan for accelerating broadband deployment, An Action Plan for America: Using Technology and Innovation to Address Our Nation's Critical Challenges, which is a major resource for the Federal Communication Commission’s 2010 National Broadband Plan.
Benton publishes Jim Kohlenberger's Universal Affordable Broadband for All Americans: How to Modernize Universal Service for the 21st Century and Connect Americans to a New Era of Digital Opportunity. The report’s research and analysis offers a starting point for major Universal Service Fund reform and modernization during the Obama administration. Penn State University's Jorge Reina Schement leads The Future of Universal Service Project, a collaboration with Benton Foundation, working with other Penn State scholars including Amit M. Schejter, Richard D.
Gloria Tristani, FCC Commissioner from 1997-2001, becomes Executive Director of Benton Foundation (serves until 2007).
Benton is appointed to the Federal Communications Commission's Consumer Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations to the Commission regarding consumer issues within the jurisdiction of the Commission and facilitates the participation of all consumers in proceedings before the Commission (serves until 2017).
With funding from Ford Foundation, Benton publishes Jim Kohlenberger's Citizen's Guide to the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.
Michael Smith joins Benton Board of Directors as Treasurer.
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