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. It’s also important to ensure your trainings are accessible and inclusive!

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Advocacy Nonprofit Training Train 207

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Our latest Impact Lab cohort on climate justice built an open-source tool for climate community-based organizations to access grant funding more seamlessly with the Grants Content Kit.

Hunger 93

Hunger Impact Puerto Rico Arkansas 93

Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. Ease of access means that with more people using these systems, the potential impact of unethical use grows. What can bias look like in the data?

Tools 52

Tools Guidelines Model Grant 52

Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

DEIAB stands for diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging. The problem is that DEIAB work is hard, and boards that seek to embrace these principles will likely face some resistance along the way. They should be willing to revisit or add policies that reflect DEIAB principles as well. What policies are in place?

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Policy Reflection Culture Training 52

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What’s the problem? Certain regions, often referred to as “media deserts,” have limited or no access to local news coverage. Research and advocacy: Conduct research on the state of local journalism, produce reports, and advocate for policies that support the industry.

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Journal Local News Fund 99

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Overview One of the great things about the Obama Administration is that they've generally lowered the bar for citizen participation in federal policy. The FCC just did a series of four blog posts asking for feedback on their new accessibility plans. Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals.

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Accessibility Award Proposal Phase 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). and there’s a general feeling something is going to happen.

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Accessibility Global Copyright Law 133

VisionLink

DECEMBER 1, 2009

This is how we solve the privacy issue: Across communities, clients seek support from a wide range of organizations; and in turn charitable, nonprofit, for profit and government organizations and agencies all provide a wide range of assistance to those in need. This helps measure need and response, and mitigates fraud.

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Government Accessibility Resource Charity 100

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Before you start a new organization, it’s worth it to fully think through the problem you’re hoping to address and whether a nonprofit is the right way to solve the issue. Before taking the steps to start a nonprofit, ask yourself these questions: What need or problem will the nonprofit address? The answer could be “both.”

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Nonprofit Files Policy Software 88

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. Volunteer policies and procedures: It is critical that you have policies and procedures in place that minimize potential problems that could arise.

Volunteer 119

Volunteer Create Policy Roles 119

sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. Tip 1: If you have an operating reserve, review your policy.

Foundation 86

Foundation Build Grant Fund 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations need to have structures and policies to support and enhance an individuals work/life balance and enable healthy technology use habits including a right to disconnect from the workplace. We must not accept any technology as the default solution for our problems. Good quote: “To a hammer, everything is a nail.

Homeless 163

Homeless Research Global System 163

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

1 While all of these are useful tools for program development and planning, there is another strategy that provides consistent access to community input while also routinely building a supportive foundation from diverse, innovative ideas: the creation of strong advisory committees. What are advisory committees?

Voice 91

Voice Community Structure Nonprofit 91

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. The responses were clear: climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and it should be an urgent priority for us all to act. Kick off meeting with the Impact Labs Climate Action Cohort.

Impact 116

Impact California Conservancy Bolivia 116

VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

From lockdowns to mask-wearing to vaccination, COVID-19 has been one of the most polarizing issues of our time. Organizations must create appropriate gen-mix volunteer opportunities, have the in-house management and tech capacity, build a positive culture, and ensure that safeguarding policies for young and old are robust.

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Intergenerational Generation Volunteer Canada 52

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. However, with Internet use also come problems such as cybercrime, lack of data privacy, and data security.

Government 44

Government Policy Internet Chile 44

sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

Contributions range from tens of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars—depending on the size of the recipient organization—while spanning a broad range of institutions and issue areas. It prioritizes new ways of approaching problems or issues—along with the financial health, stability, and sustainability of the organization.

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Philanthropy Literacy Gift Grant 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

AI4Good is a somewhat new field that sits at the intersection of big tech companies and the world’s biggest problems. The Google AI Impact Challenge attracted 2,602 applications from six continents and 119 countries, with projects addressing a wide range of issue areas, from education to the environment. .

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Google Challenge Report Impact 74

Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

As every experienced volunteer manager knows, volunteers want and need support, strong leadership, and clear policies and procedures. You cannot be scared or nervous that if you enforce policies and procedures, your volunteers will quit and leave your organization. And, despite this ‘freedom,’ retention was low.

Relationship 73

Relationship Leadership Museum Policy 73

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. Tip 1: If you have an operating reserve, review your policy.

Foundation 83

Foundation Build Fund Review 83

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too. We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. It’s a human rights issue. Nutrition insecurity.

Hunger 59

Hunger Podcast Community America 59

Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

Probably an issue that we should all be looking at. The current software will not support our “road warrior” fundraisers, or we cannot access it via the browser or devices that we wish to use. Ok, when none of those “show-stopper” or “drop-dead” issues above has come up, we just believe that we want/need a new system.

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Database ROI Donor Listserv 181

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

Measure 181

Measure Technology Audio eBook 181

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2022

The lack of diversity in our country’s leadership has become a topic of scrutiny in recent years, and the nonprofit sector is not exempt from the problem. Disparities in access to mentorship programs. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. posted by Brittney Riedinger Fall 2021 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management.

Leadership 52

Leadership North Dakota Minneapolis Minnesota 52

Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

In short, the board’s duty is to deal with the policies and the “big issues.” The staff, as led by the executive director (president, CEO…) implements that policy: the tactical three-foot view. Program volunteers will also have policy implementation duties. Legal Issues. Think strategic, 3,000-foot view.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Policy Advocacy Awareness 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The inability to pay for essential medical care is not just a significant problem for the uninsured, but also for people who have health insurance. This is a substantial issue, with 58% of Americans having delayed or gone without essential medical care because of high out-of-pocket costs. LP: It’s incredibly hard to pick just one.

People 69

People Virginia Cancer Foundation 69

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. Tip 1: If you have an operating reserve, review your policy.

Foundation 52

Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Accessible content. Incorporate accessibility best practices as you design or update your website to ensure you offer a positive user experience for all users, no matter their age, ability, or device. If you’re seeing any formatting issues, here are a few easy changes you can make: ?

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Websites Donation Images Mobile 97

Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

The original question: My organization is working on a data retention policy and wondering if others have insights to share. Do you know what the issues are that would prompt their wanting to do away with historical records? A few months ago I wrote a post on the topic of whether nonprofits should delete old donor records.

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Retention Discussion Data Donor 100

Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Welcome to “Tech Policies for Virtual Teams—A Leader’s Responsibility.” And your perspective on technology policies, I think, will vary a little bit depending on your role in the organization. So, they were not dealing with two particular issues; they really were dealing with one. This webinar was recorded on September 24, 2020.

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Policy Team Virtual Tech 102

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I'm in Kyoto, Japan for the STS forum, an incredible gathering of top scientists and policy leaders from around the world. His concept was that science and technology was critical to the future of society, and he wanted to build an inclusive international forum of top leaders literally from all over the world to tackle major problems.

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Japan Technology Conservancy Proposal 113

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

These include the Fair Labor Standards Act, social security policies, OSHA requirements, and all state and local labor regulations. Plus, your HR department will handle any harassment or misconduct issues within your organization. The post Understanding Nonprofit HR: What Sets It Apart? appeared first on Get Fully Funded.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Retention Profit Professional 52

Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

This is not to imply that throwing more staff or money at the problem will necessarily solve it-- leadership, management, and prioritization are also critical.). Behind the scenes, however, they should be leading the way to ensure that operations run smoothly and that policies, procedures, technologies, and training support the institution.

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Service Retention Evaluation System 183

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Therefore, how nonprofits worldwide can get started on Ammado: 1) Nonprofits that want to use Ammado must read and agree to their Nonprofit Recognition Policy and then sign up to be added to their database of nonprofits. See their Giving Policy for more information. No problems. Nonprofits are responsible for wire transfer fees.

Canada 220

Canada Facebook United States Fundraising 220

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. The most interesting part of the conversation was around what I call the “dueling moral high grounds” issue: authors rights and the rights of people with disabilities.

Copyright 104

Copyright Proposal Audio eBook 104

Qgiv

JUNE 13, 2023

This reiterates the notion that those who are closest to the problem (lack of diversity) are also closest to the solution! On the other hand, sharing access to resources (and power) benefits all of us. What do your policies and practices look like? As a result, no one, not even white residents, was able to swim. Take a selfie!

Culture 52

Culture United States Stats Homeless 52

3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

Decision 1: Must we have data governance policies before we migrate? Good data governance addresses data quality issues ranging from how you control your data input processes to questions such as ‘How long will you store old records? Text fields are notorious in older CRMs and Access databases.

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Data Donor Database Map 178