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Free Legal Services for Charities Anyone?

Tech Soup

I have no idea how it got started, but one of the most available and effective forms of corporate social responsibility are pro bono legal services for charities. I was reminded of this because of the American Bar Assocation's National Celebration of Pro Bono last week. Many law firms do much more pro bono work than 50 hours.

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Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

As a capacity-building organization for the global nonprofit and social benefit sector, we at TechSoup are very conscious of the need to understand and work within different cultural contexts for philanthropy. Although charities were forbidden, the Soviet system encouraged volunteering for causes deemed important for the communist cause.

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#14NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

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. And then we took a long nap! Relive the conference experience and learn from many of the 2,120 attendees through this content round-up!

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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. hiring a publicist to oversee the campaign and seeking paid advertisements from corporate sponsors and celebrities. For the first time in the nation’s history, people came together to fundraise on a global scale.

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Not Business As Usual!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We have a global economic meltdown. And we have this thing called the global climate crisis. Charity, business, and government, all accomplish great things but have their limitations. First, charity. There are so many times when human beings are in need, and they need our charity. We’ve got a lot of problems.

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Nonprofit Transparency Best Practices: Building Donor & Public Trust

Whole Whale

Your organization’s public disclosure of financial and tax documents can help instill confidence in donors, yes, but also grant making foundations, future hires, journalists, charity rating organizations, and the general public more broadly. Charity Ratings.

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In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl

Have Fun - Do Good

She traveled over 100,000 miles and interviewed 12 women activists who are working on solutions to everything from sex trafficking, to global warming, to AIDS. Glamour and powerHouseBooks have produced a collection of Pearl's interviews in, In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl , which includes a Foreword by Angelina Jolie.