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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. Funding to workers’ rights organizations increased since the 2008 financial crisis. New York is the epicenter ii of funding for workers’ rights nonprofits.

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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. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Pulitzer and the Pedestal – Or Why Crowdfunding Needs Influencer Marketing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Construction of the statue had been completed the year before in France, but efforts to construct a pedestal in New York ground to a halt. Ironically, he had vetoed a bill that would have provided $50,000 for the pedestal as governor of New York. The committee in charge of fundraising was short on cash.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Granted, this is an audacious goal, but Majora’s unique approach to urban renewal has already led to successful revitalization initiatives in her native South Bronx, N.Y., Majora Carter is on a quest to save the world one community at a time. and she’s well underway bringing positive change to many more communities.

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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. It has been reported that the virus is twice as deadly for Black and Latino people in New York City as compared to whites.

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5

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Nonprofit as Shibboleth

ASU Lodestar Center

In the extreme case, if you do it the “wrong” way you might not get that grant, or that job, or that meeting. Depp’s Brasco is an undercover FBI agent deeply embedded in the New York mafia in the 1970s. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. Maybe these alternate spellings are all the same to you, and that’s fine.