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

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During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. This took the organization from a private franchise focused on local chapters to one the entire nation—and big donors—could get behind. The government also became much more involved in social and cultural welfare programs.

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Where have all the interns gone?

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Much like the term “community service” once thought to be voluntary, altruistic service to others in the community has changed and is now used as a term for forced service hours for breaking a law in lieu of or in combination with fines. Although the laws may give rules and guidelines to follow, government entities and nonprofits are exempt.

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3 Topics for Medical Society Execs to Watch

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Brown , Vice President, Government Affairs, American Medical Association and. The new Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP), established by the MACRA law, is intended to streamline the Medicare reporting programs, incentivize movement toward value-based payment, and ideally improve patient care. AAMSE Sessions on the Topic.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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We also have a student division: STAND , which has more than 850 chapters around the world, and the students in those chapters actively organize and mobilize their communities and schools to pass legislation, to fundraise, and to really make more noise about genocide in Darfur and genocide in general. His campaign was successful.

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[VIDEO] Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

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But it’s also important that your organization communicates with a clear credible and compelling voice, that you communicate with consistently at all points of contact. A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice. And engagement can happen in all kinds of different areas.

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Our EveryAction Hero: Jewish Voice for Peace

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This month, our EveryAction hero is Jewish Voice for Peace. As a a membership driven organization, JVP works with chapters and members across the country advocating for human rights, justice, and equality for Palestinians and Israelis. How did Jewish Voice for Peace get started? Chapters are all so different from one another.

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Grave Work

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Thus, the phenomena described in this chapter are perhaps not merely features of microwork, but early experiments in how to organise a whole range of subemployed pursuits amid capitalist decay. . When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. Phil Jones.

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