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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. Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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Guest Post by Aspen Baker: Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. Aspen Baker is executive director and founder of Bay Area-based Exhale, the nation's only pro-voice organization dedicated to.