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How The James Irvine Foundation Received Microsoft Donations Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

Jeff Brandenburg: My role at the Irvine Foundation is Director of Technology for our offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Jeff: We started to investigate software donations from TechSoup when Microsoft changed its donations policy last year. After looking at online project management tools, we chose Microsoft Project 2010.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. . By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. social tools + people = lives saved. .

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Why Privacy Matters (or Should) to Nonprofits

NTEN

Data Theft Creates Notification Nightmare for BlueCross" (March 1, 2010, CIO.com). Wanted: Defense Against Online Bank Fraud" (February 8, 2010, Wall Street Journal). Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). Have you mitigated your privacy risks?

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The social media for social good landscape

ASU Lodestar Center

One of the most well-known examples of 21st-century statecraft occurred in June 2009 when Jared Cohen, former member of the State Department policy planning staff, asked Twitter to postpone scheduled maintenance during the Tehran election protests in order to allow protesters to continue to use the social media platform to communicate and organize.

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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. See Playment’s privacy policy at playment.gitbook.io/legal/privacy-policy. legal/privacy-policy.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online. Substantial government support and policy change will be critical if platform cooperatives are ever to thrive.

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