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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That worries me, because I don’t think I’ve heard about a groundswell of demand for changing Chafee in the United States, other than when one textbook publisher's representatives get up in public and sound like banking executives from five years ago (if the government would just stop regulating us, we'd take care of everything).

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On Frogloop's Radar

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conference is bringing together leaders of major women’s advocacy organizations and online women’s communities to further the connection between today’s issues and women’s voices. is intended for all women interested in better policies for women, families and society.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. The team laid out the figure below: Benetech's Equilibrium Change Model Looking at this summary of how Benetech operates, it was clear to me that our theory of change matched the framework from Osberg and Martin. Fast forward to today.

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Overhead: Time to Pull Our Heads Out of the Sand?

Connection Cafe

In terms of external actions, five options were selected most frequently: protest/petition/testify; join others to protest; urge advocacy groups to apply pressure; encourage donors to sign a petition or call government representatives; and use media to call attention to issue. Summary of Findings.

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Interview: Scott Anderson of ClientTrack

Amy Sample Ward

In summary, collaboration is critical because a client-centric approach, tied into a community of resources through technology, facilitates simplified, whole solutions that can be evaluated based on system-wide outcomes. ABCD is the oldest and largest community action planning (CAP) agency in the United States. ABCD) ( [link] ).

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online. Yet, for the most part, Instacart offers no injury or death benefits, and workers are forced to rely on crowdfunding to cover their medical costs.

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Open Government: A Recap of TransparencyCamp - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation.