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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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

To prevent volunteers from abandoning volunteerism because of liability concerns, the Volunteer Protection Act (VPA) was signed into law by President Clinton in 1997. In this example, a volunteer is assigned to provide tutoring to grade school students on campus. NY Nonprofits/Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, June 1998.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Delany, who heads up the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) online department, says that one tactic he uses to repurpose NWLC content in an engaging way is to share compelling stats from their policy factsheets. People curate their own news today. For example, in 1995 the New York Times had over 1.1

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

law enforcement agencies have been expanding their use of surveillance drones. Gizmag has other great examples of drones being used for good, such as cutting response times for heart-attack victims, detecting land mines, and fighting malaria in Southeast Asia. The FBI and other U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

A recent example of this was web site accessibility. in his New York Times essay Kindle Swindle? Thanks to lobbying from the American Foundation for the Blind and others, it's actually legal under the laws of the U.S. Roy Blount Jr. pointed out that the authors have long supported disability access. The DMCA workaround.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

At the same time, employees began expressing reservations about the use of AI in the HR context; for example, 71% oppose the use of AI to make hiring decisions, and 41% are worried about AI reviewing job applications. Communicate openly with employees about these principles and policies to bolster trust and confidence.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. 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. Governance.

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Candid

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But donor-advised funds are not new. For example, the New York Community Trust began providing such accounts as early as 1931. For example, the ability to see the flow of tax-advantaged dollars is a hallmark of charitable giving in the United States. Whether such legislation will become law remains a question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

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.

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M+R

JUNE 7, 2023

We spend a lot of our time working on policy specifics and the political factors needed for change, but at the end of the day our work is really about the people at the heart of these policies. BIPOC News Outlets As a starting point, we recommend reaching out to BIPOC media outlets with national reach.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

Or maybe even policy makers who have influence over government, you know, budgets, you know, for the CDC or things like that. So these are a couple of examples of the kinds of things that might go in your brief. So that’s an example of paid media. This is an example of owned media. Who could you engage with?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

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. . So it was probably a bad example of the reflex, deflect. . You need to have a gift acceptance policy. So respect is earned.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Her thoughts on Apple’s ban on donations in iPhone apps recently appeared in The New York Times. This isn’t a new issue for her and she blogged back in June on this topic. What about Gift Aid in the UK or the intricacies of Canadian receipting laws or the multitude of other multinational transactional complexities?

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

For example, since 2005, the US has allocated over $4 billion in humanitarian and peacekeeping and development assistance to the people of Sudan and Eastern Chad. If you had some example of how a person or a small group's action could make a difference, that would be great. His campaign was successful. This was in 2006.

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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 Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), for example, prioritized diversity and community engagement in its strategic plan – and its volunteer program reflects this focus.

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M+R

AUGUST 25, 2021

For many of us, 2020 marked the first time that we stopped viewing white supremacy narrowly (the Ku Klux Klan, for example)—and started honestly assessing how we as individuals, and the institutions we’re a part of, prop up white supremacy and racist infrastructures. Related Links: Scoring a lasting big policy win as the Trump era ended.

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Everyaction

JUNE 26, 2018

We do everything from legislative organizing to engaging in campaigns that seek to put nonviolent pressure on the government both in the US and Israel to respect international law. For example after the recent attacks in Gaza, our New York chapter got together and organized a bunch of people to protest front of Chuck Schumer's office.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. They wouldn't know she had stood with Gandhi in his resistance to the British, and supported his policy of nonviolent resistance to British colonialism. It hasn't happened in Latin America's history.

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