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Free Legal Services for Charities Anyone?

Tech Soup

Many law firms do much more pro bono work than 50 hours. TechSoup has had an ongoing relationship with the famous Silicon Valley law firm, Cooley LLP for several years. TechSoup’s Pro Bono Law Firm, Cooley LLP. employment, intellectual property, business law etc). OK, I do know that lawyers in the U.S International.

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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

Tech Soup

Drones are used to inform planting, as well as precise applications of water, nutrients, and pesticides. law enforcement agencies have been expanding their use of surveillance drones. Many local police departments like the one in Los Angeles are experimenting with them. Drones and Privacy. In the U.S.,

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Why Privacy Matters (or Should) to Nonprofits

NTEN

Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). What many businesses (and nonprofits) don't realize is that Federal law doesn't protect commercial accounts the same way it protects personal accounts. What is your bank doing to protect you?

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How Lessons Learned From Fighting Food Insecurity Can Help Your Nonprofit

Blue Avocado

At Nourish LA, we focus on the astounding amount of perfectly good food that gets thrown away every week, and we redirect it to our hungry Los Angeles communities. Lesson 2: Understand the laws. Beyond knowing about laws, the GSA (and other laws like it) is also a testament to the political power of nonprofits.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

In a June 2010 survey of the DomPrep40, an advisory board of disaster response practitioners and opinion leaders, nine out of 10 respondents said they are not staffed to monitor social media applications and respond in a major event. The first people to respond during a disaster are not usually trained responders or other professionals.

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Craig is a summer associate exploring new applications for Miradi, Benetech’s user-friendly conservation project planning and monitoring software. She holds a master’s degree in Political Sciences, Public Law and Contemporary History from University of Konstanz, Germany.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

9 Only the latest strategy in the militarization of urban space, facial recognition has unleashed a police armageddon on poor neighbourhoods, most notably in the vast carceral cities of Los Angeles and Shanghai. The LAPD has used the software around 30,000 times since 2009, often to defend richer enclaves from ‘gang crime’.

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