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Hosting Harkin at the Hub

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This landmark federal law, known as the “Emancipation Proclamation for people with disabilities,” has been remarkably successful in protecting the rights of people with disabilities. The ADA and the special education laws have produced the best-educated population of people with disabilities in U.S.

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Calling All Nonprofits: Its Time for a Privacy Upgrade

NTEN

And once member lists, actions and events, emails and documents are collected and stored by an online service, outdated electronic privacy law is failing to keep this information safe from inappropriate access and potential misuse. Cloud computing is a prime example. The issue is starting to get some much-needed attention.

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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. Can a judge and a lawyer be “friends” and do they need to “un-friend” each other if they’re working the same case? And for good reason.

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Eulogy for my father

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He inspired us, he inspired each one of his children, by his example, by the people and pursuits he loved, to keep our impact on other people in mind. After a couple of hours of working at it, the job was still not done. Mom would save up projects for Bill to work on, some which had already been “fixed” by Dad. That was my dad!

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Historically, federal and state laws have viewed nonprofit and for-profit entities as mutually exclusive organizations whose work rarely, if ever, overlapped. In 2014, Goodwill received $3.94

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Help Your Helpers! Top Tips for Managing Volunteers

Qgiv

Many nonprofits work in tandem with volunteers to move their mission forward and keep expenses down. Regardless of how you put your mission helpers to work, volunteer management at every level is key to developing happy, helpful, and empowered volunteers! Check these events that require 10 volunteers or less. Don’t Force It.

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Five Tips for Nonprofits to Ramp Up their Social Media

Care2

Delany, who heads up the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) online department, says that one tactic he uses to repurpose NWLC content in an engaging way is to share compelling stats from their policy factsheets. For example, in 1995 the New York Times had over 1.1 Social media is an incredibly active and social space.