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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, the Latin America Work Group’s website is www.lawg.org , but when the organization was setting up its profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, “lawg” was not available on all three sites. Create a Simple Media Policy. The overall message should be one of empowerment, not control and restriction.

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

Tech Soup

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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School Choice and Blackbaud Software

sgEngage

Arizona reports that its Empowerment Scholarship Account has aided more than 77,000 students at $4,000–9,000 each with even higher amounts going to students with disabilities. Iowa’s Students First ESAs are $7,826 for the 2024–25 school year to cover private school tuition, fees, and other educational expenses such as textbooks and tutoring.

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Blog for Choice Day 2009

Connection Cafe

This is the fourth annual such event and is meant to organize pro-choice bloggers to write about choice, raise the profile of reproductive rights, and educate their readers about the issue. This kind of constituent empowerment effort as an organizing strategy is smart.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. That's a good question.

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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

Museum 2.0

Sometimes, the desired visitor actions were hazy, represented by a general principle like “diversity;” other times, the actions were specific extensions of advocacy or policy espoused by the institution. People don't need empowerment to make a difference; they need vehicles for action. If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

They would help to identify, what were the needs, what were the communication and information needs that women doing this work have, what are the kinds of solutions and support that would help them do their work more effectively on the local level, and help them really and meaningfully influence policy?

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