Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Many boards have policies requiring the full board (or each member individually) to hit a fundraising goal and this worksheet helps get them organized and on a path to success. This can include large Fortune 500 companies or even local law firms, smaller companies, business-to-business suppliers, or retailers. Cultivation.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

When you have a goal to meet—like asking a governing body to sign a bill into law, telling a CEO or other stakeholder to change a behavior or policy, or meeting goals around educating decision-makers on your issue area—you know you can’t do it alone. Cast a wide net with texts, emails, phone calls and social posts.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As a nonprofit leader, you are likely familiar with donation solicitation laws. However, given the specificity of the law, it is necessary to understand what counts as online donation solicitations and how crossing state lines can impact your online fundraisers. What is online fundraising? and Canada report preferring to give online.

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

Most civil society organizations (CSOs) and citizens don’t use high-level jargon such as Internet governance and ICT policy. International Economic and Policy Stakeholders Recognize the Internet’s Increasing Role. Net neutrality has been enshrined in law in the Netherlands and Chile. Not convinced yet?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

And if a nonprofit lacks funding and resources for HR functions, then policy manuals and forms, performance reviews, and regular training can all become desperately out of date or be nonexistent. You can reach the human resources experts at HR Solutions Partners by phone or email. Comply with federal and state employment laws.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 11, 2014

The NSA monitoring everything from email to phone calls. For example, consumers by law have access to credit reports used in making financial decisions about the consumer. The topic of consumer data privacy is getting more and more attention in the media and on Capitol Hill. Personal identity theft.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

For example, advocating for a law change may require the work of multiple governmental bodies, sign off by various elected officials, and also changing public perception — each of which could be an advocacy campaign in its own right. What policies have they supported? What policies have they opposed? Where do they live?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

That’s because Apple doesn’t allow nonprofits or other organizations to include a direct donation system in the phone’s applications, so the only way to give is to go to a charity’s Web site, a cumbersome process with a small phone-size keyboard.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. million phones were stolen in the U.S.,

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AccelEvents

OCTOBER 16, 2020

From preventing a Zoom meeting from being Zoombombed to ensuring that your event is following data privacy laws , digital safety needs to be ensured for all virtual events. . In the event of a disruption, you can easily cite your policy in order to regain control.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Yesterday, I attended a webinar about social media policies called " E-Privacy: Can You Legally Monitor MySpace, LinkedIn, E-mail, & Blogs? who is the Law & Technology Director at Fenwick & West LLP (F&W), a Silicon-Valley-based law firm. Beth: Do you have a social media policy at your foundation?

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AccelEvents

OCTOBER 16, 2020

From preventing a Zoom meeting from being Zoombombed to ensuring that your event is following data privacy laws , digital safety needs to be ensured for all virtual events. . In the event of a disruption, you can easily cite your policy in order to regain control.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

And our members also rely on technology to take part, booking reminders in online calendars or using GPS-enabled cell phones to get to events. But ECPA was enacted in 1986, when Ronald Reagan was President, cell phones were as big as your head, and the Web did not even exist. Cloud computing is a prime example.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Like the title suggest s, the new law provides kids with healthier, more nutritious food options at school and gives free lunch access to a larger number of chil dren in need. This law came as great news for anti-hunger activists and health advocates all over the county. Seventeen million children live in food insecure households.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2017

In late 2016, note-taking service Evernote caught some flack for a change in its privacy policy that would have allowed employees to be able to access customers' data stored on Evernote's servers. Figure out whether you can use a given provider or service while still conforming to applicable laws and regulations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Net neutrality has been the default law of the land since the Internet’s founding more than 40 years ago. For nonprofits, access to an open Internet is the fundamental and necessary condition that will allow them to compete in the marketplace of ideas. But that condition is threatened.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

Are photos that you take with your camera or phone yours or your organization's property to use as you wish? law that covers this is called the right of publicity. The following rules of thumb are abstracted from Bryan Carson's Laws for Using Photos You Take at Your Library. Rules of Thumb for Using Photos of People.

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2009

Last Friday, a bill to make Net Neutrality law made it's way to Congress. Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, says, The future of the Internet as we know it depends on maintaining freedom and openness online," said. Under the Internet Preseration Freedom Act, Net Neutrality would be protected into the future.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Paul Ohm, a senior policy adviser to the Federal Trade Commission and associate professor at the Colorado Law School, told The Washington Post , "You're making it very difficult for people who want privacy to find it on the Internet. security malware office saferonline microsoft mobile phones Office365 privacy'

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

We need real competition instead of the cable and phone company duopoly. These phone and cable companies control 97 percent of the residential broadband market. The FCC should review policies governing competition and pricing. Bad policy decisions should be reversed. The same is true for the nation's top cable companies.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Paul Ohm, a senior policy adviser to the Federal Trade Commission and associate professor at the Colorado Law School, told The Washington Post , "You're making it very difficult for people who want privacy to find it on the Internet. security malware office saferonline microsoft mobile phones Office365 privacy'

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2018

For instance, as an ASPCA donor, (beyond my name, address, phone number, email, etc.) Particularly for the organizations that deal with sensitive data, clearness in the messaging around data privacy policies is critical. Stay in the know about GDPR, privacy law evolution, and state level initiatives.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. We did some exploration of the likely impacts on the market for audio books: that seems to be one of the major policy concerns about the text-to-speech issue. The Chafee Amendment The U.S.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). What many businesses (and nonprofits) don't realize is that Federal law doesn't protect commercial accounts the same way it protects personal accounts. What is your bank doing to protect you?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The anti remix message: The exhibition policy on photos: no photos are allowed in the exhibit. " They won't even let you take out a phone or PDA and make notes with it, in case you're sneakily taking photos on the premises. Only a court of law can determine whether the purpose of the photography was fair use or not.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 11, 2012

On TV, in the mail, on the phones, in the inbox, not to mention in your Facebook and Twitter feeds. 501(c)4 - Advocate to Congress, legislative bodies and members to influence decisions on policy issues and bills. An election year in the USA - especially a Presidential election year - always takes up a lot of bandwidth.

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sgEngage

MAY 23, 2024

Regulatory/Compliance: this risk could expose the organization to fines and penalties from a regulatory agency due to non-compliance with laws and regulations. Lack of access, such as the Grants.gov AOR is on vacation when the grant is due, or the Two Factor Authorization code pings someone’s phone which is no longer with the organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Ask donors for their phone number , but do not require it on donation forms ( TCPA ). 9) Stay current on online privacy law. The law is finally starting to catch up with the internet and privacy rights are a legal trend that nonprofits cannot afford to ignore. New online privacy legislation is being enacted all over the world.

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sgEngage

APRIL 24, 2023

According to research by NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, 80% of nonprofits don’t have a policy to address cyberattacks. A good place to start building a policy (if you don’t already have one) is to assess your organization’s risk with our checklist. Vishing is using phone calls or voicemail for malicious intent.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Like the phone companies, the gas companies, even the internet companies. And that’s another question that I get, I’m not, you know, by any means an expert in, in business and an expert in this kind of law. How are we committed to anti-racist policies? We need to have some regulations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

Mobile phones stay on. So, as a first step, organizations should be at least collecting mobile phone numbers in their databases. that someone could punch in a number on their cell phone and make a donation to a charity. People were calling cell phone 5 or 6 times to make a donation. did a lottery via mobile phones.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

E-books, therefore, make access to information an affordable reality, as more and more people, including students, have a device in their pocket capable of operating as an accessible e-reader: from inexpensive mobile phones and MP3 players to Braille note-takers that can store thousands of e-books in digital Braille.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

” Accordingly, 12 states are developing laws to ban or limit “junk mail” despite strenuous efforts by the Direct Marketing Association and others to fight such legislation. “The other two thirds give via the mail and phones. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Thanks for listening.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And when you have websites with lots of questions before people fill it out, when you have, you know, give us your phone number, that is a thing you can just see people withering away because they don’t want to give you their phone number, because they don’t want to be called. You need to have a gift acceptance policy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. They then place social entrepreneurs in the direct action and systems change box.

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