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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. Komen for the Cure race.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

Non Profit Quarterly

But unions have had difficulty organizing platform economy employees because of their classification as independent contractors, which excludes them from protections under the National Labor Relations Act. The result of this solidarity was the formation of two union cooperatives: Union Taxi in 2009 and Green Taxi Cooperative in 2016.

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Leading the Resistance: 28 Organizations You Can (and Should) Support Today

EveryAction

Lambda Legal Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. National Immigration Law Center. Make the Road New York.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

Have Fun - Do Good

She utilizes her national platform to bring awareness to the HIV/AIDS crisis. It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. For example, we put together the 2008 Seva Challenge. It really didn't matter to us. We didn't want to micromanage someone's passion.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

Having said that, I do believe that America straddles this very interesting place, where on the one hand it sees itself as a leader in the world, and it sees itself as an exceptional power in the world, but then it's sort of ambivalent about whether or not it actually wants to take on that mantle fully.

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