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July Cause Awareness: Disability Pride Month

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Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Founded in 1902, LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired is headquartered in San Francisco, California and provides education, training, advocacy, and community for blind individuals in California and around the world.

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100 Courses in 100 Days for Alzheimer’s

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In honor of his mother with Alzheimer’s and his mother-in-law who passed away from Alzheimer’s in July of 2018, Dave decided to plan a golf trip to raise awareness and donations for Alzheimer’s—a golf trip that consisted of 100 courses in 100 days, starting in California on March 14th and ending in Massachusetts on June 21st.

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3 Topics for Medical Society Execs to Watch

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Shawn Martin , Senior Vice President, Advocacy, Practice Advancement, and Policy, . In this session, you will learn about key aspects of the QPP, what is to come and how advocacy from medicine achieved improvements for patients and physicians. Association Management Challenge.

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Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

Fair Fight —Founded by Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight promotes fair elections by bringing voter discrimination to light with education programs and election reform advocacy. The Color of Law. Attend Events . Take time to celebrate your local community and find ways to support them during this time of celebration.

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2015 Jim Lynch Award Winner — Kyle Wiens of iFixit

Tech Soup

If we open up most of our devices, we are usually violating the warranty and (in some cases) federal law. He describes it as "a united front of consumers, environmental organizations, the aftermarket, and digital rights advocacy groups." If you own something, you should have the right to fix it.

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[VIDEO] Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

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But don’t do that right now, wait at least an hour because we got Sarah Durham, one of my favorites joining us from Massachusetts. I often think of engagement as crossing over all of these areas, from fundraising to your programs to, you know, community-based advocacy, government relations. Hey, Sarah, how are you doing?

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Meet Nicola M. Wells: Social Media As An Online Door Knocking Campaign for Immigrant Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An organizer on our team, George Goehl, went to help the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition in anyway he could. Though I always had a personal interest in technology and social media, I didn't know how to integrate it into my more traditional organizing portfolio.