Remove Law Remove Los Angeles Remove Policy Remove University
article thumbnail

How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

Tech Soup

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. Foreign Policy magazine's Predators for Peace Drones is a short history of humanitarian drones. The FBI and other U.S.

Benefit 36
article thumbnail

Nomad Cafe: How to Start a Green Cafe

Have Fun - Do Good

We shared that distinction with big players like American Honda Motor, Frito-Lay, Lockheed Martin, and the Los Angeles Zoo. Both of those laws passed and are now in effect. Change has to happen on a broad policy level, but the policy invariably emerges around the grassroots groundswell.

Green 41
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Center for Nonprofit Management / Los Angeles, CA / Price TBA.

Calendar 177
article thumbnail

What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

Have Fun - Do Good

Governor Schwarzenegger signed the California State Divestment Bill into law, and from there Adam took the campaign nationally. Now the Sudan Divestment Task Force has divested over two dozen US states, 50 universities, more than 15 cities, and placed Federal restrictions on Sudan linked investments. His campaign was successful.

Darfur 40
article thumbnail

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. But Amazon is less the ‘everything store’, more a universal logistics system. legal/privacy-policy.

Work 68