Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

The earliest Women's Day observance was held in 1909 in New York, when the Socialist Party of America commemorated a strike of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. From the beginning, it was about jobs, education, and money. Gender parity in education and equal pay for equal work are unresolved issues in 2017.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceeds benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit that works to defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Proceeds benefit First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs in low-income communities.

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BoardAssist

JULY 30, 2014

Is your New York nonprofit ready for the new Nonprofit Revitalization Act? Are you familiar with the requirements of the new Act? The New York Nonprofit Revitalization Act became effective on July 1, so sharpen your pencils and see how many boxes you can check on this compliance list. Annual audit.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Many industries will forever be altered: cruise lines, retail, restaurants, business travel, and higher education. We have no crystal ball, but we have some thoughts and insights based on the laws of economics and the need for organizations to drive towards constructive cultures where employees feel safe and heard.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2023

For local governments that rely on Twitter for law enforcement alerts, public transportation updates, and to hear directly from residents about service requests, this has been especially problematic. There is also a lack of moderation, a rise in hate speech , and concerns about how data is handled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Note from Beth: Last June at the New York City book party for the Networked Nonprofit , Stephanie Strom, New York Times, moderated a discussion on the themes in the book. Net neutrality has been the default law of the land since the Internet’s founding more than 40 years ago. But that condition is threatened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about education programs in Second Life. Father and daughter have been co-teaching a Harvard Law School course in Second Life this past semester, called CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opnion. Professor Nesson will serve as the judge in both trials.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

Why does an EU law have such a monumental effect on privacy globally? Second, as the strictest privacy law in the world to date, it has become the gold standard for privacy frameworks. Is it easy to understand or does it require a post-graduate education to decipher? The New York Privacy Act (S.5642,

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Fort Meyers, FL/ $445. The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

The recent series of events, from Ferguson to Cleveland and New York, have created a watershed moment. New laws and policies will help, but any movement toward greater cultural and racial understanding and communication must be supported by our country’s cultural and educational infrastructure. Things must change.

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JULY 5, 2017

For more information on the role of education and performance improvement, read our blog post on How Medicare Payment Changes will Drive Performance Improvement. Member engagement is not a new topic, but this year’s AAMSE lineup provides some new ideas for grabbing member’s attention. AAMSE Sessions on the Topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. While the overwhelming consensus was that such behavior isn’t right, there are few laws on the books to address these scenarios.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Vu’s passion to make the world better, combined with a low score on the Law School Admission Test, drove him into the field of nonprofit work, where he learned that we should take the work seriously, but not ourselves. There’s tons of humor in the nonprofit world, and someone needs to document it. ignitedfundraising.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

I enjoyed Sopheap's recent post about public education about not littering in Cambodia ) After I get back in September, OneWebDay is next community web event on my calendar scheduled for September 22, 2007. She teaches communications law and cyberlaw, and writes frequently about these subjects on her blog and in published articles.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / Less than $200. NYSSCPA / New York, NY / $385. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Leadership / #AMI16 / @NPL_Alliance. Leadership. General / @southwestfdns.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

For government, they offered reams of paper showing that they were following the letter of the law in the use of their grants. This was especially true for those that accepted (or largely lived on) public dollars -- primarily those that provide human services, international relief, health care or educational services. New York Post.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

SOS Children’s Villages Illinois acquired 75% of their new donors for the entire year with their year-end peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

" The ruling establishes that a search engine such as Google must be regarded as a "data controller" under the data protection laws in those EU countries where it operates. The New York City-based nonprofit Spare Change is developing a smartphone app that will soon launch. Here in the U.S.,

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 17, 2022

It emphasizes why direct action to break unjust laws is needed, rather than waiting for justice or equality to arrive. Nonviolent resistance to unjust laws eventually influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me is a New York Times bestseller, written as a letter to his teenage son.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

VietNet-ICT also actively participates in policy discussions to formulate laws and policies relating to information, technology, and communication towards sustainable development and equity. YCAB Foundation is an NGO based both in New York and Jakarta, Indonesia.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

Preparing for new legal protections for employees In 2023, regulators in the U.S. enacted several laws that provided increased protections for employees–and added to the compliance responsibilities of employers. As noted in trend #1 above, international, U.S. Take action: Leadership skills are learned skills.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 16, 2023

It emphasizes why direct action to break unjust laws is needed, rather than waiting for justice or equality to arrive. Nonviolent resistance to unjust laws eventually influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me is a New York Times bestseller, written as a letter to his teenage son.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

David is a journalist turned entrepreneur who has written for Wired , Seed , Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. Now, it's almost not even breaking news to say that newspapers are facing, to be quite frank, an economic death spiral. The New York Times has agreed to run it if it's "up to their standards."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

Education tool. Amy Webb, futurist, professor of strategic foresight at New York University and founder of the Future Today Institute, said, “If our current habits continue unchanged, it’s easiest to map pessimistic and catastrophic scenarios. Work creation enabler and enhancer. Health and wellness aid. Community lifeline.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Whether you’re looking for educational resources or want to get involved, these organizations are a great place to start. Colorlines —Colorlines is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion and curation. Educational Resources. Attend Events .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

In our prep call, Daren clearly explained what to keep in mind when using social channels to engage with elected officials – and boils down to the distinction between elevating or educating about a policy issue and partisan support – the latter is not allowed by IRS guidelines. Social Media and Employees.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Since the 1960s, people of color and women have fought for equality at work, leading to laws being passed prohibiting discrimination (1964), increasing advancement opportunities for the underrepresented (1965), and allowing those who have been discriminated against to prosecute (1972).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

It's an educational role, a cheerleading role, and because we are both piloting this workshop project and trying to use it simultaneously to develop exhibits in a six-month concept-to-floor timeframe, I am both humble and desperate in my hunt for good ideas. The software crashes (for me about once each day). The landscape is foreign.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We want to get them excited about our work, we want to educate them, we want to cultivate them. So if you treat all your actions as if I wouldn’t want this on Twitter, or the front page of “The New York Times,” then that’s a pretty good way to behave in life. . tax law, not, feel free to weigh in. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Cambodia: Somaly Mam Acting for Women in Distressing Situations (AFESIP) Canada: Sheila Watt-Cloutier The Center for Environmental Law Colombia: Mayerly Sanchez World Vision Hong Kong: Anson Chan Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf The Liberian Education Trust (LET) Mexico: Lydia Cacho Ciamcancun New York: Dr. Angela Diaz (..)

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

In 2020, multiple platform companies, including Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and Postmates, spent over $205 million to pass Proposition 22 in California , a law that classifies platform workers as independent contractors, not employees. To support this vision, the Drivers Cooperative has been successful in raising more than $1.4

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Lambda Legal Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. Make the Road New York. Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Governor Schwarzenegger signed the California State Divestment Bill into law, and from there Adam took the campaign nationally. I came into it when I was a junior at Northwestern University, and I was living in New York at that time. His campaign was successful. This was in 2006. It is cool to see that happening. JG: Absolutely.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Designed to foster greater community engagement, Clear on what’s reasonable to expect of volunteers, and; Compliant with the laws. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and many state and local laws are quite specific about the roles of paid staff and volunteers. Volunteer Engagement, Community Engagement. Capacity-Building.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2007

CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities. Check out our local spotlight with great action photos on our site. How did you get involved with CODEPINK?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City. This time I had three agenda items for my conversations with congressional staff: Advocating for funding for special education. The Marrakesh Treaty. Bookshare was there with two offers.

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