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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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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).

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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.

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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. A few of the top takeaways from the guide include: Respond Quickly — When communicating during times of crisis, simplicity and effectiveness are far more important than design or prose.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

This time I wanted to feature NGOs around the world that are making a humanitarian impact internationally across several countries. The organization has nine full-time staff. Before the donation, the organization was using old software, which caused problems when the staff tried to share files externally. Our Local Impact Map.

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Guest Post by Allison Fine: The Unthinkable Power of Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In a country where the majority of law school graduates are women, why not a court that is majority female? What if we had a conversation about a more natural, intuitive way of learning in real-time for activists instead? Unless and until we are, the problems they represent won’t change. More on this to come soon.)