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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Without these, the metaverse risks inheriting the problems of today’s social media, if not becoming something worse. There I was, being virtually groped in a snowy fortress with my brother-in-law and husband watching. It will also require regulation with teeth to keep Big Tech accountable to the public interest. Get the idea?

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Obama’s MySpace Problem

See3

Even the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, which has put big resources into these issues couldn’t escape serious problems. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! and losing control of content. It’s the magic question. The answer is, very very carefully.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now). law today. •

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Transparency and Fundraising: Is There a Connection?

NTEN

Traditionally (which is to say for the last 60+ years or so), charities focused on the magnitude of the problems they were addressing and the efforts they were making to help. For government, they offered reams of paper showing that they were following the letter of the law in the use of their grants. August 2010. [2]

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Shrinking government budgets and greater competition for ever-fewer dollars are reducing the scale and effectiveness of nonprofits in meeting the nation’s growing challenges and intractable problems.

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Emergency Response Guide

Connection Cafe

Unanticipated press coverage and subsequent attention on your cause can be the result of change of law or a court’s ruling. The unintended fallout of such mistakes can be missed opportunities, offended donors or worse, PR problems. This information was originally posted by Convio's Molly Brooksbank in March of 2010.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

Kokkyo naki Kodomotachi (Children without Borders) in Japan is a humanitarian educational association NGO that supports disadvantaged children and youth in Asia who are on the street, are victims of trafficking, forced labor, and natural disasters, or in conflict with the law. Their great website is available in Japanese, English, and French.