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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

Funding to workers’ rights organizations increased since the 2008 financial crisis. This figure accounts for more than the entire sum of funding for California, Texas, and Florida combined. According to Candid data, funding from large foundations to workers’ rights nonprofits more than doubled between 2007 and 2019, from $14.5

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Qgiv Partner Showcase: Achieve

Qgiv

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

Qgiv

Edwin Shneidman (left) at his home in Los Angeles, California with Maurizio Pompili, who was the recipient of the 2008 Shneidman Award. A co-founder of the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center in 1958, Shneidman is considered a pioneer in suicide prevention. Agencies from within the U.S.

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How Millennials are Transforming Politics and the Public Sector

Achieve

Millennials turned out to vote in record numbers in 2008. Had the Millennial vote been split 50-50 in four states – Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia – Romney would have been elected president, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. Absolutely. A 2016 Washington Post expose.

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16 Million 2-1-1 Calls in 2009

VisionLink

This is an increase of 13% in call volume over 2008. VisionLink''s Role VisionLink customers are among those providing 2-1-1 services, from New York to Washington state, from Florida to Maine, and here in our own state of Colorado--and for many regional and metropolitan systems in between.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2008, Vermont became the first state to permit the creation of the L3C (Powell, Jackson-Zapata, & Kammerling, 2014), an entity that allows companies to achieve modest profits while operating under a business model that emphasizes impact over profits. The organization became the first Benefit “B” Corporation in Florida.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

The Army Research Laboratory in Orlando, Florida (the Silicon Valley of simulation), is, a source tells us, leaning toward specifying xAPI (see below) as the standard for LMS-simulator communication. Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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