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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. It processes and vets applications from nonprofit organizations interested in getting going on mobile fundraising activities. costing consumers nearly $2.6

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

federal law supports braille instruction. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. We are also actively pursuing legal approaches to allow sharing of image descriptions and tactile graphics files to reduce costly re-work by underfunded schools and nonprofit organizations/NGO’s.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Third, the print book is not universally accessible. Many books are never published because of the costs. And, the U.S.

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

Taking the time to identify the most important information, and understanding privacy laws as we reviewed in “Cybersecurity and Data Privacy”, will result in an unprecedented understanding of your stakeholders and a strong relationship between each party. . Success is bridging the gap between data and strategy .

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6 Steps to Zeroing Out Child Labour Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

It also requires formalizing the informal economy and extending the coverage of labour law for protection to those who are the most vulnerable. Achieving Universal Access to Social Protection. Decent work requires an adequate minimum wage based on dialogue and collective bargaining between workers’ organisations and employers.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Like many other leaders of nonprofit organizations, I travel an unreasonable fraction of the time. Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal).

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. This year, 2008, is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The year before that, women in Morocco won an amazing change in the law. Until then, women had been considered minors under the law.

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