Forj

JULY 5, 2017

We are paying close attention to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). The program can be broken down into two different tracks: Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (Advanced APMs). MACRA and the QPP.

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New York Leadership California Minneapolis 31

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2011

Tan , Public Allies Arizona Program Manager ASU Lodestar Center As Ive done every March for the past four years, I participated as a Team Leader in United Ways Alternative Spring Break (ASB) in the metro Washington D.C. From the students perspective, there are many compelling reasons for coming to Alternative Spring Break.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Vital Voices :: @ VitalVoices.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Or, we can assert that access to knowledge and a public Internet have a certain, intrinsic "public good" and should be regulated and protected. Make your voice heard via the Electronic Frontier Foundation comment form here. In the US, one of the basic tenets of our public services is been equal access.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

It takes advantage of urban density imagining new business models that prioritize access over ownership, peer-to-peer networks over hierarchical control and challenges our consumer status-quo. We, as nonprofits, have the power and the numbers to make our voices heard. Let us insist on what is most transformative.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Certainly, people seemed to appreciate access to the platform apps that began changing their world. 3 By signing up for app access, individual Uber or Lyft drivers can choose their hours and place of work, enjoying independence not promised by traditional taxi companies—and customers can hail rides from strangers quickly and affordably.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Whether the tasks power autonomous weapons systems raining disaster down on slum districts or else power geographic data for humanitarian agencies that provide aid to such disaster zones is knowledge not available to the workers. Platform interfaces provide no messaging services or profiles that workers can access.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I work in museums because I hate schools and see museums as a viable alternative. I didn't have a clue about the other rationales for museums--places of stored knowledge, places to keep stuff, places to colonize minds. Why are we training future leaders of alternative learning using traditional academic techniques and facilities?

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