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License your photos and more on Facebook

Amy Sample Ward

This blog has a Creative Commons license. Because I want people to know that I expect them to share things they find interesting, or to help further the conversation but that in sharing, others need to keep the content free, too. Because Creative Commons licenses help creators, sharers, and readers enjoy online content respectfully.

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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use the " BY Attribution " creative commons license. I've used this license. I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. No, but is more likely to happen is that people will use the work, use the license honestly, and improve the work.

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How grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients can do great things together with data and evaluation

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

We refrained from taking photos, because we wanted to foster an atmosphere of candor and comfort as grantors and grantees engaged in conversation about a difficult topic. Mine are based on what I learned during the dialogue series, and also on untold numbers of public and private conversations on the topic. __.

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What the Third Sector Can Learn from the Public Sector

NTEN

All of the content produced and published by the New York State Senate is published under a Creative Commons license. Again, if it's built with public money, the public has the right to use it. If the data can contribute to the conversation, share it. The public will help you get it the rest of the way."

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What We Talk About When Talk About Open Data

Tech Soup

billion in charity tax fraud, and, in a more pedestrian example, a woman in Denmark used government datasets to build a website showing all the public toilets across the country. Now we're asking you to join the conversation. Do you know good examples of nonprofits using open data or sharing their data with the public?

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Online fundraising: Leveraging compliance as a development strategy

ASU Lodestar Center

To protect nonprofits and the general public, most states enforce certain compliance requirements on nonprofit organizations soliciting within their borders. Almost every state requires nonprofits to file annually to renew their license to solicit. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. posted by James Gilmer Harbor Compliance.

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Online fundraising: leveraging compliance as a development strategy

ASU Lodestar Center

To protect nonprofits and the general public, most states enforce certain compliance requirements on nonprofit organizations soliciting within their borders. Almost every state requires nonprofits to file annually to renew their license to solicit. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. posted by James Gilmer Harbor Compliance.

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