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Key facts, figures, and trends among U.S. labor unions

Candid

California and New York have the most unions in the dataset, with 3,790 and 3,777 organizations respectively. Other unions have taken a more direct strategy of engaging with social movements by incorporating community demands into their collective bargaining negotiations.

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Is There a Community of #Tech4Good Activists Waiting for You?

Tech Soup

San Francisco, California: Mobile Apps for Change Demo Day. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Los Angeles, California: WordPress for Nonprofits — Learn from an Expert! Brooklyn, New York: The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact Without Burnout. Friday, February 3, 2017.

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

Road trips touch on so many different goals that organizations focus on that it’s hard to believe how few major nonprofits have embraced the road trip campaign strategy. org, and five Unity College students embarked on a bio-diesel powered road trip to encourage President Obama to restore solar paneling to the White House roof.

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Nonprofits and Pinterest: Nonprofit Blog Carnival Round-up

Have Fun - Do Good

Pinsulin: repin for those who pin 12 times a day , osocio • Christine Sculati created four Pinterest Boards to raise awareness about the California State Parks crisis. ~ . ~ Pinterest: One Nonprofit's Story , Susan's Site • Marc van Gurp highlighted the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Israel's "Pinsulin" campaign.

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And the Winner(s) of the Social Media Library Are.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the social media library giveaway I asked folks to leave a comment on how they would use the books to shape their 2010 social media strategy. ADAPT my existing social media strategy based on the new things I learn and ideas I have as a result of reading the books. It takes content, strategy and elbow grease.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

For example, Lyft doesn’t report total individual fares to drivers at all, and only reports weekly aggregate fares for individual drivers, while a California study by Mission Local found that Uber reports fares to drivers that are measurably lower than the fares actually paid. Something more is needed. as in, “Who owns the app?

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