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Protecting Community Resource Data

VisionLink

We have also created standards for the exchange of information about disaster shelters and about client records. Enforcing copyright over data collections is possible, but other measures are often more efficient and less costly. As the builder of CommunityOS , we are keenly focused on the need to move data around easily.

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10NTC: Are Nonprofits the New International Correspondents?

Tech Soup

The discussion wandered from writing to advocacy to curating to poetry to copyright. Mercy Corps publishes his writing in the form of exclusive stories for newspapers and magazines.

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It’s 2013: Where’s your nonprofit’s social media policy?

ASU Lodestar Center

Crediting other sources: As it is common practice on social media to re-post images and articles from other sources, we included links to copyright and Creative Commons instructions to better inform our employees on these legal restrictions and discussed some best-practices. Connect with Colleen on Twitter and LinkedIn. Like this article?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: The cockroach under the refrigerator.

ASU Lodestar Center

It is a provocative piece that really made me re-evaluate how I view disaster and humanitarian giving. This phenomenon isnt limited just to disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and volunteerism, though. Stannard-Stockton referenced a video produced by "Good Intentions Are Not Enough," an online service of The Charity Rater, LLC.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council was recognized for their great disaster relief work and their leadership in teching up schools in southern Louisiana. The nonprofit refurbisher. MyDigitalBridge.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why do people give charity?

See3

Such foundations do not exist to give emergency aid during crises arising from war or natural disaster; instead, their purpose is to attack social and scientific problems at the root, a process that sometimes requires substantial allocations of grant money over 5, 10 or even 20 years.

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Who Will Be the Next $100,000 Purpose Prize Winner? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

The prize is the only program in the country focused on promoting and encouraging the work of social innovators over 60, like: Wilma Melville , a 74-year-old, retired physical education teacher, who won $100,000 for creating The National Disaster Search Foundation. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Her idea is now a reality.