Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

You may think this is an odd beginning for a public policy blog, so please bear with me. And yes, public policy at the local, state, and federal levels can and will impact your ability to achieve your organization’s mission and day-to-day activities. Taking stock allows us to set new priorities and forge new paths.

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M+R

MAY 17, 2022

Donald was one of the original (Ralph) “Nader’s Raiders,” tasked with traveling the country and turning college student energy into student advocacy groups. Donald went on to lead New York’s PIRG (NYPIRG) into a powerhouse of an advocacy organization and organized one of the largest protests of the 1970s with 100,000 people on the mall in DC.

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Everyaction

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

From legal work to advocacy to grassroots mobilization, these 7 organizations highlighted below are fighting to ensure that immigrant rights are human rights. They hold the government accountable for unjust immigration laws and educate the American public on the longstanding importance of immigrants in the US. Learn More |. Learn More.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

If your association caters to healthcare, law, finance, or other industries, start brainstorming about how your members can use AI to create content and make better decisions faster. For instance, your association might consider creating advocacy campaigns and scheduling lobby days.

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M+R

MARCH 9, 2023

When the governor of Florida signs a homophobic and transphobic law , banning public school teachers from giving age appropriate instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, but your children do not attend public schools or you do not have children or you’re not a Florida resident, will you Say Gay anyway?

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Everyaction

JUNE 6, 2018

Pride Fund to End Gun Violence is a Political Action Committee (PAC) that supports candidates who will act on sensible gun policy reforms while championing LGBTQ safety and equality. The National Center for Transgender Equality is the nation’s leading social justice advocacy organization winning life-saving change for transgender people.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

WRC advocates for programs and policies that create opportunity and drive change for these communities. Since 1922, they have put significant international pressure on governments to enforce and enact laws that defend women’s rights. Women's Refugee Commission. Take Action | Twitter | Facebook. Human Rights Watch. The Carter Center.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

We uphold our vision by providing peer-to-peer support, educating people on the issues that are important to the community, and advocating for inclusive policies and laws. Integration: We were looking for a CRM that could integrate more easily with the suite of tools we used for fundraising, email marketing, events, and advocacy work.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The Urban League of Portland was established in 1945 making it one of the oldest African American service, civil rights, and advocacy organizations in the region. Southern Poverty Law Center. One of their current policy proposals hopes to to enact solutions that address the structural nature of racial disparities in the economy.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Look into relevant laws regarding starting a nonprofit in your community. Look into pro-bono services offered by local bar associations or law firms. The IRS recommends that nonprofits develop conflict of interest policies to prevent any issues down the line regarding the appearance or actuality of impropriety.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

Salesforce, for example, founded its Office of Ethical and Humane Use to help build and foster a culture of responsibility as it relates to technology use, instilling a strategic framework around product, law, policy, and ethics to ensure the humane use of technology across Salesforce’s many clouds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. How do the [.]

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re not an advocacy organization, but our technical insights are in great demand from advocates. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue. Human Rights Program policies: what are contingency/crisis plans for our staff?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Nice blog. All rights reserved.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

women became the majority of law students. The UN finds that 119 countries have now passed domestic violence laws, though enforcement remains a problem. Law and Advocacy. Nicole Ozer , director of technology and civil liberties policy at ACLU. Last year, U.S. Shortfalls.

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. This Disability Pride Month is a perfect time to let your elected officials know about accessibility problems in your community and policies that help and hurt the people with disabilities that they represent. On July 26, 1990, President George H.W.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Media: A Bubble About to Burst – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "Are your nonprofit staffers addicted to social media? The only question: Is it a mere glitch or a natural extension of Apple’s policy that is generally indifferent to nonprofits and philanthropy?

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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). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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Care2

MARCH 11, 2014

This years 14NTC conference is packed with incredible parties ( including an 80s dance party that I''m co-hosting with Salsa), and the Care2 Impact Prize that recognizes individuals in the nonprofit sector who have made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising or both. 14NTC Sessions. million organizations.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

APRIL 5, 2019

Texas Watch is a nonpartisan citizen advocacy group founded in 1998. With the Texas legislative session currently in progress, I called Tara Lee, Development Director of Texas Watch to talk about current policy issues and how they work to bridge the divide between their community and the political process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. government to close the real prison and the other to encourage public discourse.

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Care2

OCTOBER 6, 2010

particularly when it comes to quickly sharing links to blog posts, advocacy and fundraising campaign on social networks. has been seized by the Libyan government for failure to comply with Islamic law. This trustee enforces policies and operation of the domain. However, just today a.ly shortener called vb.ly Some Background.

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Neon CRM

JULY 21, 2023

But the board is responsible for ensuring that the nonprofit has all the necessary legal, ethical, financial, and overall good governance policies in place to succeed long-term. Duty of Obedience: It is the board’s job to ensure their organization follows all applicable local, state, and federal laws.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. We did some exploration of the likely impacts on the market for audio books: that seems to be one of the major policy concerns about the text-to-speech issue. The Chafee Amendment The U.S.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

Blurred Policy Lines and the Downsides of Sharing. Nonprofits that work in policy and advocacy can help craft legislation and work with local, state, and national policymakers to adopt laws that balance the explosion of sharing-economy startups and protect the marginalized from exploitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Pioneers in Justice” operates as a forum to explore social media tools that may power their local advocacy work and explore “networked” ways of collaboration within the social justice sector – and equally important, a space to address any concerns that may surface along the way.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. ” California’s New Smartphone Kill Switch Law.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 4, 2023

Organizations like Doc Ellis Foundation works to hold law enforcement accountable and offers financial support to families, ensuring they receive the required resources when reporting a missing person. This organization goes beyond simply advocating for women’s rights locally.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

The Power of Tech in Advocacy & Organizing 14NTC: We came, we tweeted, we played with Legos. And then we took a long nap! NTEN staff has finally recovered and we are positively overwhelmed with all the blog posts, videos, pictures, and other instances of the 14NTC celebration from the nonprofit technology community.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

And once member lists, actions and events, emails and documents are collected and stored by an online service, outdated electronic privacy law is failing to keep this information safe from inappropriate access and potential misuse. Outdated electronic privacy law impacts everyone who uses e-mail, mobile phones, or the Internet.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In 2017, Equal Measures 2030 —an independent civil society and private sector-led partnership—was established in order to connect data and evidence with advocacy and action as a means to drive gender equality and reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. . Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In 2017, Equal Measures 2030 —an independent civil society and private sector-led partnership—was established in order to connect data and evidence with advocacy and action as a means to drive gender equality and reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. . Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash.

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Care2

JUNE 26, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Sound interesting? Contact them for more info.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2007

Rochelle specializes in online advocacy using technology for positive change in public consciousness, law, and social policy. One of the cool things on her site is a link to Social Change Websites , a directory of nonprofit, grassroots and advocacy campaign web sites. The site is Rochelle's brainchild.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2015

Is Your Organization Engaged in Public Policy Discussions? Politics and public policy don’t often go hand in hand with the nonprofit experience. Would your organization be more effective if certain laws or regulations were amended, added, or stricken from the books? But what about your nonprofit organization?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2017

For nonprofits interested in engaging supporters in online advocacy, this is especially true. While WWF’s climate change work is ongoing and touches many policy areas, this blog post shares specific examples from a three-week campaign window in 2015. Congress makes laws. The Oracle at Delphi told Oedipus “Know thyself!”

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Care2

AUGUST 26, 2008

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