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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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What Nonprofits Can Learn at Games for Change Festival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Back in 2007, I presented and attended at the Games for Change Festival. Over the past few years, games and mobile platforms have become more and more important for nonprofits to pay attention to for their communications strategy. What Nonprofits Can Learn at Games for Change Festival by Jeff Ramos.

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Art and Activism: Olivia Greer and Women Center Stage

Have Fun - Do Good

Just over a year ago, musician, Olivia Greer , was commissioned by Culture Project , a New York City theater company, to write a song for the Women Center Stage Festival. Working with Women Center Stage has helped Greer to connect her interests in art and social justice activism as well. art activism women

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Research Friday: Volunteering and Financial Statements - What’s Missing?

ASU Lodestar Center

The authors present statements from Junior Achievement of Rochester, New York Area to illustrate. Junior Achievement of Rochester, New York Area, Inc. # Using what is called a "replacement cost" method to estimate a monetary value based on wages paid for similar activities, the U.S. Sigel Press, 2007, pg.

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Charities Cry Foul on Chase Facebook Charitable Giving Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's what Stephanie Strom, New York Times reported: JPMorgan Chase & Company is coming under fire for the way it conducted an online contest to award millions of dollars to 100 charities. Several groups who were in the top 100 (before Chase removed the vote tallies), were not on the final list, apparently disqualified.

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Build Communities to Enhance Your Fundraising Campaigns

NTEN

Stay@Home was conducted as a traditional nonevent fund-raising activity: CC mailed invitations to its prospects and donors asking them to stay at home. The organization wanted a way to engage new and existing donors, develop its brand, create an online presence, and build awareness for its mission. . Friendraising Website.

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Blogging for Writers

Have Fun - Do Good

Birdie's blogs and stories have been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Positive Thinking Magazine , and the Wall Street Journal as well as many other news outlets. Don’t know if they will do it in 2007. Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times.