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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

For example, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) undertook a six-year lobbying campaign in New York to pass better protections for domestic workers. According to Candid data, funding from large foundations to workers’ rights nonprofits more than doubled between 2007 and 2019, from $14.5 million to $35.6

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Lame spam of the day: U.N. natural disaster victim payment

Robert Weiner

Subject: United Nations Headquarters. Text: United Nations Headquarters. 760 United Nations Plaza, New York, New York 10017, U.S. THE UNITED NATIONS. 6) Identification either, Passport photo page, Driver License or National ID. (IF Sender: Ban ki Moon (Info@cast.net). NO P O BOX). (3)

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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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Raise Your Hand for Girls on October 11, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The goal is to collect 4 million actions (photos of hands raised, likes on their Facebook campaign page, etc) and present the collective actions to the United Nations Secretary General and the world donor community urging them to put girls’ education as their priority. She graduated from college and is married.

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Colombia’s “False Positives�

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We Colombians are a resilient breed, accustomed to waking up to all kinds of distressing news and still somehow managing to go about our daily business. El Espectador, one of the two most important national daily newspapers, screams out in today's editorial: "Shame!" But today's mood in Colombia is more somber than usual.

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What Nonprofits Can Learn at Games for Change Festival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Back in 2007, I presented and attended at the Games for Change Festival. Over the past few years, games and mobile platforms have become more and more important for nonprofits to pay attention to for their communications strategy. What Nonprofits Can Learn at Games for Change Festival by Jeff Ramos.

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Disconnecting From The Network

AFP Blog

Disconnecting From The Network : "NPower, the national network of nonprofit technology consulting and training organizations, has restructured. The New York office is rebranding itself as the national organization and the other network members have to decide whether to retain their affiliation and names or become independent.

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