Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. A volunteer handbook is an essential piece of a successful volunteer program at a nonprofit. You can also include a list of staff (if any), Board members, and key partners.

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M+R

AUGUST 17, 2022

It’s what we don’t ask them to share: supporters’ privacy. Behavioral data on how your supporters are interacting with other organizations — email and donation patterns — are powerful without sacrificing your supporters’ privacy and trust. That’s right. Interested? Read time: 2 minutes. The response was incredible!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

The merger greatly expanded Race Forward’s capacity, number of programs and communication needs. Have there been demographic, economic, or policy changes that affect your messages and offerings? Other changes included the rise of accessibility and privacy legislation. The environment is always changing.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

There are massive benefits to using AI, but a policy that shapes how your team uses it is an important starting point. These will likely be senior level people in your organization who will be responsible for crafting policy and encouraging participation. It should also involve an emphasis on data privacy and ethics.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 31, 2021

Despite the need to address this gap, PhotoDNA and related tools are currently facing attacks from both tech sector policies (like expanded adoption of end-to-end encryption ) and government regulation (such as the European Union’s ePrivacy Directive ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

For more than a decade, Nadine has worked at the intersection of policy and media in major markets including New York, Chicago and Washington, DC. When connecting with reporters, she draws heavily on her own experience working in the newsroom for leading PBS news programs. This post originally appeared on Benetech''s Blog.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

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. One of the issues brought to the fore with artificial intelligence is privacy.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

TechSoup is pleased to present … the Bitdefender donation program! When we connect to the Internet or a network, we face daunting risks that most of us would rather not think about, from invasions of privacy (Want to share keystrokes, passwords, or credit cards with a cyber criminal?) Safepay™ and privacy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

foundationConnect enabled us to work better together — from funders and applicants to program staff and grantees, stronger connections were built within our organization. Security, privacy, and best practice standards for nonprofit grantmaking Since the beginning, trust has been one of Salesforce’s core values. Learn more 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s a complicated equation that brings together core human rights concerns about privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and the direct practicalities of real-life struggle with the ways in which engineering, policy, legal and design decisions are made by companies, or placed upon them by the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

Since then, the Pew Research Center began an in-depth study on how Americans view privacy and sharing of personal information. The most recent state of privacy report found that Americans have "a deep lack of faith in organizations of all kinds, public or private, in protecting the personal information they collect."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

Since then, the Pew Research Center began an in-depth study on how Americans view privacy and sharing of personal information. The most recent state of privacy report found that Americans have "a deep lack of faith in organizations of all kinds, public or private, in protecting the personal information they collect."

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2012

We want to be able to easily share information on the Internet — but we also want to keep programs off our devices that will allow people to see things we don't want them to see: passwords, credit card information, mailing addresses, bank information, etc. These include: How to remove personal info from Google searches.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2012

We prefer to work mainly behind the scenes, helping the activists pursue their mission of improving respect for human rights, advocating for policy change that advance rights and sometimes even obtaining justice against the perpetrators. We feel we've made huge strides in usability with our Martus design without compromising security.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Later in the workshop, some very important policy discussion issues came up from the group. These are very real and serious issues that need to be discussed as part of policy development, training, and strategy development. Here were some of the questions: These are concerns about the privacy, safety, and legal liability. #1

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Privacy has always been an important topic in digital literacy. And with the Snowden revelations of NSA spying, education around privacy is in higher demand. The study concludes that education about privacy and surveillance needs to be incorporated into digital literacy education. Nonprofits: Up for the Privacy Challenge.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

With the formal launch of the EU’s GDPR law (along with thousands of “we’ve updated our privacy policy!” emails) in May and several high profile stories about major companies struggling with data breaches, 2018 was a big year for conversations about what privacy really looks like in the modern data landscape.

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Qgiv

MARCH 27, 2023

Whenever you’re using an unfamiliar online tool, look up where the tool stores its information and what the privacy policy is regarding information sharing. If applicable, ask ChatGPT to include information about a specific program the donor’s generosity has helped. How can I use ChatGPT?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Facebook in Online Privacy Breach; Applications Transmitting Identifying Information – WSJ.com – "Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

Most recently, we took a critical step in our climate action plan by including climate as a part of the company public policy platform, joining priorities like equal rights and privacy and security. “We UMass Amherst also boasts an efficient recycling program and one of New England’s largest solar panel projects.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

But with a fresh round of funding and recent initiatives such as the Creator First Accelerator Program , the application is focused on beating out its (new) competitors for users, and in general, looking for ways to improve, evolve, and grow the audio-based application. Data security & privacy law. Time sensitivity.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2023

How this can show up is in statements like, “foundation staff are out-of-touch, power-hungry people who care more about their salaries than really making change” or “nonprofit staff are those who couldn’t hack it in ‘real jobs’, and they are randomly piecing together programs without any real expertise.”

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NTEN

APRIL 23, 2010

The currency we use to we pay for the convenience, the magic even, of the open social web is our privacy. The trade off between transparency and privacy has always, and will always exist. Our privacy is ultimately our responsibility. For some, this trade-off is unthinkable. For others, it isn't worth a thought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. Can we post their photos on Facebook or our Web Site?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Time for them to launch an Ad Grants Program for Nonprofits like Google Grants. I believe this so much in fact, that I started a Page called “ Call to Action: Launch an Ads Grants Program for Nonprofits “ Hope you become a Fan – er “Like&# it. This is a new policy development. Well, I beg to differ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Lela talked about how and why sound founded this enterprise in 2008 and their programs that are disrupting poverty. ” Next up was Dave Evans, Chief Futurist at Cisco. ” Scoble did not discuss the privacy implications when there is a human at the other end of this aggregated data and what the ethics policies should be.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2018

But today, perhaps more than ever before, we talk about transparency through the lens of data and privacy. Though the heightened awareness and concern might be attributed to a recent flurry of events in the social media sphere, data privacy has really been a crucial conversation since the dawn of the Digital Age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

A policy for how to respond to negative comments or social media workflow. Bots could help protect the privacy and safety of activists. This is one of the best examples I saw of using bots for engagement and it most definitely required some custom programming. Climate Reality is using a bot on its Facebook Brand Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

To ensure that your nonprofit is not wasting valuable time and financial resources on an obsolete social media strategy, learn more about our new certificate program. Create and promote a major donor donation page/program. 5) Launch a tribute giving program. Download How to Launch & Grow a Tribute Giving Program.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 27, 2023

This allows you to export your data directly to a CSV file that can be opened in Excel or another spreadsheet program. This requires being familiar with programming languages like Python or Ruby to use the API. To do this, navigate to the report you want to export, then click on the Export button at the top of the page.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

You have zero control over Facebook and its ever-changing policies. Some organizations are not comfortable providing such detailed information to a company that has come under fire for privacy concerns. Tuition for ten students in an after-school program? And then there is the nature of Facebook. Also frustrating. I get that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Research how other nonprofits with missions and programs similar to yours are using social media, and then let the executive staff clearly know that your nonprofit is falling behind. Create a Simple Media Policy. Our goal is to build online communities in order to share our expertise and better serve our mission and programs.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Sure, it might sound like some sort of extraordinarily tasty treat, but it's actually an invasive tracking program. " Privacy experts warn that these supercookies could be abused by advertisers, governments, and hackers. Privacy should be accessible to everybody! Supercookie, Super Creepy. Let us know in the comments.

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Care2

JULY 8, 2011

And don’t plan on trying to work around their policy because they are quickly shutting down accounts that don’t follow their terms of service. Fill out Google+'s form to apply for consideration in their program allowing a limited number of organizations to use the platform. Google+ tips and tricks. How diverse is Google+?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Sure, it might sound like some sort of extraordinarily tasty treat, but it's actually an invasive tracking program. " Privacy experts warn that these supercookies could be abused by advertisers, governments, and hackers. Privacy should be accessible to everybody! Supercookie, Super Creepy. Let us know in the comments.

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See3

MARCH 18, 2008

Duties include managing multiple projects; contractor oversight and correspondence; editing technical reports; and providing program support to Director of Research. Duties include managing multiple projects; contractor oversight and correspondence; editing technical reports; and providing program support to Director of Research.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Highlights from recent media coverage of privacy-related incidents and trends shows increased risk for the nonprofit sector related to privacy. Have you mitigated your privacy risks? The MA law is also seen as a herald of what's to come from other states as the privacy threat continues to grow.

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