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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

For example, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) undertook a six-year lobbying campaign in New York to pass better protections for domestic workers. According to Candid data, funding from large foundations to workers’ rights nonprofits more than doubled between 2007 and 2019, from $14.5 million to $35.6

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Understanding Income Inequality

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I met her last year at KentPresents , a brand-new conference organized by the incredible duo of Ben and Donna Rosen. Janet is also a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and she runs a satellite office of LIS there. family structure?

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2015 Jim Lynch Award Winner — Kyle Wiens of iFixit

Tech Soup

The iPhone repairability scores have steadily improved since 2007. One of Kyle's first victories in the right to repair was in 2013, when he successfully advocated for legalizing the unlocking of mobile devices so they aren't locked to a single carrier like AT&T or Verizon. I have a feeling this guy is just getting started.

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Why Apple isn't the Nonprofit App Grinch | Nonprofit Trends with.

sgEngage

Her thoughts on Apple’s ban on donations in iPhone apps recently appeared in The New York Times. This isn’t a new issue for her and she blogged back in June on this topic. In fact, at the recent BBcon, Steve himself displayed a statistic that mobile web usage will actually pass desktop web usage by 2013.

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