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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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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. Thankfully, this pandemic will likely inspire a new wave of national service. posted by Jaime Ernesto Uzeta, CEO, Public Allies.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. With so much stressful, depressing news in the world today, positive news stands out. It’s a good practice to tweet content relevant to breaking news stories.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. Her broader national goal notwithstanding, Majora remains deeply passionate about and involved in revitalization of the South Bronx.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? Molly’s background spans nonprofits and direct service, including work with small farmers in northeastern Brazil and upstate New York. What are ways of providing specific and real-time guidance for farmers? Eric Munoz.

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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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Nonprofit as Shibboleth

ASU Lodestar Center

As told in the 12th chapter of the “Book of Judges” in the Christian bible, the Ephramites tried to blend in with the locals as they were fleeing the country. Depp’s Brasco is an undercover FBI agent deeply embedded in the New York mafia in the 1970s. National Council of Nonprofits (a national one). I could go on.