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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

Instead , they pursue a variety of other strategies centering on litigation, education, and industry-wide advocacy. For example, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) undertook a six-year lobbying campaign in New York to pass better protections for domestic workers. million to $35.6 Source: Foundation 1000.

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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.

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Raise Your Hand for Girls on October 11, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The goal is to collect 4 million actions (photos of hands raised, likes on their Facebook campaign page, etc) and present the collective actions to the United Nations Secretary General and the world donor community urging them to put girls’ education as their priority. The photo above is Leng Sopharath.

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Welcome to Our New Board Members!

NTEN

Rusty currently serves as Vice President, Data and Technology at the national headquarters of the American Lung Association in New York. He worked in a number of fundraising capacities at the national level starting in 1987 and moved to New York in 1992. > Read the Press Release.

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Build Communities to Enhance Your Fundraising Campaigns

NTEN

The organization and challenge: The Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) in New York City was challenged with a name and brand that was not remembered or inspiring to its constituencies and communities. She serves on the board of directors and as treasurer of Swish , a New York City–based gay-straight alliance.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

The Center was established in 2007 by the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents, Human Resources. It is proper etiquette in Vietnam to politely ask your age, nationality, and marital status on the first meeting. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia. There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam.

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Leadership in Times of Transition

ASU Lodestar Center

I recently returned from New York City, where I was able to spend two incredible days with 72 fellow global nonprofit leaders selected to attend the fourth annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit. posted by Seth Cothrun Class 9, American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center.