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Community Building begins with Community Organizing

Amy Sample Ward

We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement. Would love to hear if you have examples or tips to share! But both the community and your organization want to see certain laws passed, things improved, programs created or groups supported.

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Tear It Down and Virtual Guantanamo: Two Examples of Virtual Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Why Nonprofit Workplaces Are Stressful and What To Do About It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last 25 years, we’ve shifted from leisure time as status to busy and stressed out as a badge of honor. This is already happening in Europe (France has a no after hours email law ) and many Scandinavian countries focus on work life balance. The Center for HumanTech is an example. How To Change.

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The Iron Cage of Copyright

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Looking at some random CC licenced examples, I???ve The alternative licensing scheme in the form of Creative Commons licences is confusing even to many lawyers who specialise in intellectual property law. is more of a badge of affiliation to a social and cultural movement, than a label for a legal licensing scheme.

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Use New-Hire Employee Badges

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Sunday, August 29, 2010 Use New-Hire Employee Badges If you lead an organization that uses employee ID badges, considering using a different color or a special designation on the badges for newly hired employees for at least their first 30 days and ideally up to 60 days. Some people call this a "hello" culture.

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Nonprofit Transparency Best Practices: Building Donor & Public Trust

Whole Whale

Charities are rated on a scale of 0-Stars (Exceptionally Poor) to 4-Stars (Exceptional) and will receive graphic badges demonstrating their rating that they can post on their site. In 2021, data privacy needs to be a priority for nonprofits, especially with GDPR , CCPA, and SHIELD laws. New to data privacy?

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

So it was probably a bad example of the reflex, deflect. . it’s a bit of a badge of honor, they said, “We’re not tax-deductible because we are lobbying, you know, against. And, you know, one example is a minimum amount. . Steven: So here I am. . Harvey: Oh, okay. You’re easily triggered. And it became.

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