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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

For example, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) undertook a six-year lobbying campaign in New York to pass better protections for domestic workers. In comparison, organizations in the District of Columbia and Wisconsin, which secured the second and third most funding, only received $75 million and $35 million respectively.

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Your Voice Really Does Count: Why It Is Important to Participate in Surveys

Tech Soup

GrantStation polls organizations on the status of their grantseeking twice yearly in order to provide the nonprofit sector with a vivid, up-to-date snapshot of grantseeking today, and then produces free national reports and free drill-down fact sheets by budget, mission focus, location, and more. Please, take the survey now!

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Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports

BoardAssist

A dimensional chart of accounts structure creates a separate field in your database for each bit of expense information rather than cramming all the information into one account code field. Provide a basis for comparison. In financial reporting, context is provided by comparison to the prior year performance, to budget, or to both.

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Jump In Now to the Spring 2013 State of Grantseeking Survey

Tech Soup

Benchmarking: After publishing the national State of Grantseeking Survey results, I dive back into the data and produce focus sheets on the results filtered by organization budget, by the top nonprofit missions, geographically by census division, and more (over 20 focus sheets in total). Please participate, and share the link with others.

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4 Performance Measurement Mistakes You Don't Want to Make

Tech Soup

One national nonprofit I know had been working on putting together a measurement system for three years. As funder pressure on social sector organizations to get better at measurement has increased, whole industries have sprung up with pre-developed surveys and data sets from comparison groups. Underutilizing What You Have.

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How Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Supplanting Columbus Day

Whole Whale

Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. 1946: The United Nations Charter is signed, without any mention of indigenous peoples. 1972: The United Nations finally recognizes the rights of indigenous people with the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities.

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Liberating Nonprofit Data for Greater Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With a national movement in the U.S. As President Obama declared on his first day in office , “Information maintained by the Federal government is a national asset,” and IRS data on nonprofits is important and valuable information that should be available to everyone. The DVDs are only part of the problem. When the U.S.

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