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How funders can bolster direct voter engagement

Candid

JUNE 4, 2024

In the 2021 New York City municipal elections, low-propensity voters who were engaged by nonprofits providing support and services in their communities and therefore seen as trusted messengers turned out at double the rate of those who were not. GoVoteNYC is a funder collaborative housed at the New York Community Trust.

New York

New York New York City Issue Poll

Digital Privacy Compliance for Nonprofits: The Big 3 Laws

Achieve

MARCH 4, 2022

From fundraising legal requirements to digital privacy laws, it’s important to understand the rules to which your nonprofit can be held accountable. Regulation #1: The CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into US law in 2003, and it protects consumers from receiving emails that they never agreed to receive.

Law

Law Digital California Spam

Classy Welcomes Ford Foundation COO Depelsha McGruder to Its Board of Directors

Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

McGruder, the Ford Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer, oversees Ford’s global operations and finances for its offices in New York, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. She holds a BA from Howard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. The Vision to Supporting Impact at Scale . With M.O.B.B.

Director

Director Foundation San Diego New York

Joint Statement from Museum Bloggers and Colleagues on Ferguson and Related Events

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. What should be our role(s)?

Museum

Museum Blogger Cleveland Missouri

Your Cause Camp 2018 Lineup is Here

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. She also teaches in the philanthropy graduate program at Saint Mary’s University, Minnesota, USA.

Causes

Causes Ireland Philadelphia Slovakia

Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

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.

Second Life

Second Life Open Source Life Education

The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

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. NYSSCPA / New York, NY / $385. General / @southwestfdns.

Calendar

Calendar Conference San Diego DC

What is the importance of a diverse nonprofit, and how can leadership create one?

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). Why is workplace diversity important?

Leadership

Leadership Create Environment Arizona

Observations from The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop, Month 1

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.

Museum

Museum Virtual Tech Second Life

[VIDEO] Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

There really isn’t a clear definition that is universally accepted in the sector. These are all channels that your organization can direct and basically do whatever you want with, within reason and the law, at your own discretion. So you control your website, your social media, your email.

Build

Build Video New York City Communication

How the Media Covered White Supremacy in 2020

M+R

AUGUST 25, 2021

The role of then-President Trump in fanning the flames of racism—and how many white supremacist groups, like the Proud Boys , often felt a connection to the president’s remarks. Don’t limit yourself to the same-old news outlets: This is another age-old rule, but one that we all need to remind ourselves of constantly.

Media

Media National Conversation Trend

Our EveryAction Hero: Jewish Voice for Peace

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. Your members play such a huge role in your organization. How do you go about acquiring new members?

Voice

Voice Chapter Utah

Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities.

New York

New York Boston Washington Africa

The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Many of them do really meet our basic criteria of being women-led, of reflecting the work of a group of women, rather than just one or two individuals, and of really tackling critical human rights challenges and societal challenges in which women are playing key roles. The year before that, women in Morocco won an amazing change in the law.

Global

Global Fund Interview United States

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