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Amnesty International at 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AI was founded in 1961 on the inspiration of British lawyer Peter Benenson, whose article “The Forgotten Prisoners” launched the first Prisoners of Conscience campaign, which ignited overwhelming global support and marked the birth of AI. I especially heard strong interest in building the Amnesty movement in Latin America and Asia.

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Research Friday: Lessons in board governance

ASU Lodestar Center

Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies. Despite the positive increases from 2010, the above numbers demonstrate that in most areas, there is still significant room for improvement for many nonprofits across America. Increased accountability and self-assessment.

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Research Friday: Transforming the mindset from charitable giving to the social economy

ASU Lodestar Center

The term social economy is used more in Canada, Europe and Latin America. Increasingly, policy and social change has been studied through the lens of the social economy, and there is now a developed scholarly literature in this field (much of it through the European Research Network ). Like this article? Get another!

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Congratulations to Nonprofit Campaigners on Three Recent Victories - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Civic Ventures Wins House and Senate Passage of the Serve America Act Nonprofit organization Civic Ventures has long campaigned in favor of boosting government support for public service in America. House and Senate both have passed the bill, and President Obama is expected to sign it into law on April 21st. Partial victory?

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Nonprofit Transparency Best Practices: Building Donor & Public Trust

Whole Whale

In this article, we’ll walk you through what information your organization should include on your website. From there, we more broadly contextualize financial transparency within other nonprofit transparency best practices, like publicly listing board members, having an on-site privacy policy, and more! New to data privacy?

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

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Here’s a timeline with links to articles about significant events over the last century that helped form our current context: . Here’s a timeline with links to articles about significant events over the last century that helped form our current context: . 1970 – Milton Friedman introduces his Shareholder Value T heory.

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A Nonprofit’s Legal Counsel Is The Social Media Manager’s Best Friend!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session will focus on exploring how nonprofits are expanding their efforts to influence public policy through social channels and understanding the legal issues and how to evaluate the work. (I’ll The “ Influencing Public Policy in A Digital Age ” is their comprehensive guide.