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JULY 3, 2023

As more and more activist organizations began to gain traction, it became clear that the nation needed to adopt more comprehensive civil rights legislation to increase independence and fully integrate people with disabilities into U.S. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. Donate to support their mission here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The newly formed organization initially based its demands on select parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and on the Prisoners of Conscience campaign. In fact, the adopted changes are at the heart of the organization’s identity and suggest that every generation reinvents AI.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

It is narrower than the Treaty, and is not binding as a treaty would be (some call it “soft law” compared to the “hard law” of a treaty). law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now). and European privacy laws, and so on. • law today. • What would I work on?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. The convergence of standards in digital publishing and major advancements in braille codes – such as the recent adoption of Unified English Braille (UEB) format by the Braille Authority of North America – are on our side. Accordingly, U.S.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig. Creative Commons basically provides a free and standardized legal infrastructure that joins up the free flow of online information with traditional copyright laws that were devised in an earlier age. We are in pretty good company.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies. The IRS website reads: “Good governance is important to increase the likelihood that organizations will comply with the tax law, protect their charitable assets, and thereby, best serve their charitable beneficiaries.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Third, the print book is not universally accessible. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility. A new copyright exception has been adopted nationwide just a couple of years earlier, the Chafee Amendment (also known as Section 121).

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

If you're an NTEN Member -- or have been lurking around for awhile -- you know that Universal Broadband Access is an issue we care deeply about. They're doing some fabulous organizing around universal access and have provided some basic talking points for comments to the FCC. It's essential that they hear from us. Net Neutrality.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

One example of this (there are many others) came from Veena Dubal, a civil rights attorney and labor researcher at University of California Berkeley. Janelle Orsi, CEO and Co-Founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center , a project of the nonprofit Community Ventures, on how The Sharing Economy Just Got Real.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2019

At Blackbaud, we have developed several resources to help social good professionals not only comply with legal requirements like the CAN-SPAM Act and Canada’s CASL Law but also to understand and adopt industry best practices and content strategies with our very own Blackbaud Email Resource Center.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, the lousy quality of accessibility of the Kindle presents a civil rights problem: schools can't adopt Kindles and lock out their disabled students. Thanks to lobbying from the American Foundation for the Blind and others, it's actually legal under the laws of the U.S. The DMCA workaround.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? As noted earlier, however, the United States has been slow to adopt this model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Father and daughter have been co-teaching a Harvard Law School course in Second Life this past semester, called CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opnion. And, while, I'm not a lawyer, the discussion was so relevant to technology adoption/change issues and it Rebecca was a damn good virtual facilitator.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2007

The law is the same for everyone; it should be applied in the same way to all. These are 5 of the 30 points listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. December 10, 2008 will mark the 60th anniversary of the General Assembly of the United Nations' adoption of the Declaration.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

These uncertainties may be why many nonprofits still hesitate to adopt podcasting as a part of their new media strategy. But also realize that there are literally hundreds of directories left over from the early adopter podcasting craze and many of them simply scrape the catalog of the larger directories.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. Students outside the United States are not covered by this national copyright exception, because every country has its own copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

It has adopted a cyber strategy in its own development that is sustainable and scalable. re Harvard University ? He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began. "We might imagine J amaica in 2008 that has become a remarkable leader in the world. Cyberspace identity is key.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

It also requires formalizing the informal economy and extending the coverage of labour law for protection to those who are the most vulnerable. Achieving Universal Access to Social Protection. Decent work requires an adequate minimum wage based on dialogue and collective bargaining between workers’ organisations and employers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

I have been actively involved in the crafting of Oakland's newly-adopted Zero Waste Policy , and I campaigned for City Council member Jean Quan's polystyrene foam packaging moratorium, as well as Council member Jane Brunner's litter fee assessment ordinance. Both of those laws passed and are now in effect.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Let's Encrypt is a project in cooperation with the University of Michigan, the nonprofit Mozilla, and TechSoup donor partner Cisco. She explains that some nonprofits in Canada need to store their private data internally as required by law, but want to take advantage of free cloud services such as Google for Nonprofits and Office 365.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2022

The adoption of appropriate digital tools has the power to revolutionize operations, build trust amongst program participants and stakeholders, and offer more agency to those who depend on services. We need transformative thinking that fundamentally changes the way social good is delivered.

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Everyaction

JUNE 26, 2018

We do everything from legislative organizing to engaging in campaigns that seek to put nonviolent pressure on the government both in the US and Israel to respect international law. We're definitely trying to bring in our members to the digital universe that we live in as staff so that we're working together on our various efforts.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

And I mean, we were small, and I was the one person doing it all, so it was very easy for me to just either know who knew who, because we had such a small universe, or the young professionals were also encouraged to each send me a report at the end of the month and just, you know, shoot me an email, right.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). I had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities.

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Global Giving

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A brief flurry of social media activity followed, with some offering the view that repealing this law would likely have the effect of turning social media giants into political censors. The history and importance of the law has been described elsewhere; Casey Newton of Platformer and formerly of the Verge did a particularly great job.

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