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Guest Post: Murphy’s Law — sometimes simpler is better in technology for volunteer management

Twenty Hats

Back in the late aughts I had my first brush with volunteer management, when I volunteered for a second year with a film festival in New York City. Fast forward to 2020 and I’m working with an incredible education non-profit in New York City which provides programming to and through college for underrepresented students.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. students at Stanford University. So, what changed?

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. copyright law). copyright law). copyright law, also known as the Chafee Amendment. In Authors Guild v. None of this is captured by the HDL’s text?

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.

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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup

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. women became the majority of law students. Law and Advocacy. It had had a really interesting history before that though. Last year, U.S.

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Nonprofit Technology News for February 2014

Tech Soup

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. The New York Times Outs Google+.

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Research Friday: Government contracting part II: Adapting in an era of less

ASU Lodestar Center

continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. “In