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Run a Productive, Fun Nonprofit Board Meeting

Get Fully Funded

” “The conversation easily gets off-track, and before you know it, 30 minutes have passed and we haven’t even discussed important business because we’ve gotten off on a tangent again.” There are two things that can help A LOT here: organizational by-laws and Board member job descriptions. Everything!

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Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action

sgEngage

Even though laws and structures are often driven from the top down, it is a combination of top-down leadership and grassroots movements that create sustainable change. This includes people at various levels of the power structure: the wealthy, the marginalized, and allies, uniting for the common good.

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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Breigha Adeyemo’s recent article, I’m a Black woman and the metaverse scares me – here’s how to make the next iteration of the internet inclusive , explains: Ensuring that the metaverse is inclusive and works for everyone will require that people from marginalized communities take the lead in shaping it. Get the idea?

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. If you’re watching the recording, hope you’re having a good day because we are here to talk about some creative ways that people are contributing to the community. Full Transcript: – [Lindsay] Okay. . I’m Steven.

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Interview with Bryan Stevenson: On Juneteenth and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. Enslaved people were so disrespected that those who enslaved them didn’t even tell them that they were free for months after the South had surrendered.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. copyright law.

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Will Robots (and bots) Replace Nonprofit Staff and Interns in the Workplace?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is an array of technology that includes: robots, chat bots, artificial intelligence, machine learning, conversational interfaces, smart devices, drones, self-driving cars and others which are increasingly becoming the interface between organizations and humans. Instead, it is important to consider how to channel human knowledge.