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How Nonprofits Can Engage Volunteers in Advocacy

ASU Lodestar Center

The terms advocacy and lobbying are generally used interchangeably to describe how nonprofits influence legislation and public policy. Carletha Sterling has been on the board of directors for Wings for Women, Tucson and A New Way Of Life, Los Angeles, California. However, volunteers can also be advocates.

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Tips for Remote Presenting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This morning Liz Karlin, who works at the Packard Foundation in Grant Operations , and I did a remote presentation for the Foundation Financial Officers Group on Organizational Change and Social Media Policy development. I talked about the change in workstyle that is needed before codifying a social culture through a social media policy.

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The 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

As policy changes unfold at the federal, state and local levels, the communities and issues we care about as corporate social responsibility professionals inevitably face uncertainty. Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees / Los Angeles, CA / $935. Council on Foundations Public Policy Summit. Feb 27 - Mar 1.

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Why Privacy Matters (or Should) to Nonprofits

NTEN

Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). Follow-up by developing an organizational privacy policy and enacting a privacy program to help mitigate both business and technical risks. Have you taken the steps necessary to protect your organization?

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Nomad Cafe: How to Start a Green Cafe

Have Fun - Do Good

We shared that distinction with big players like American Honda Motor, Frito-Lay, Lockheed Martin, and the Los Angeles Zoo. I have championed the recent Oakland Food Policy Assessment introduced by some amazing grad students at Cal, which lays out a very clear, thorough, and utterly achievable road map for food security in Oakland.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants. Center for Nonprofit Management / Los Angeles, CA / Price TBA. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Los Angeles, CA / Not available. Entrepreneurship. Apr 19 - 21.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Such information is concealed by big tech cabals who rely on microwork sites to facilitate projects of a secret nature. 9 Only the latest strategy in the militarization of urban space, facial recognition has unleashed a police armageddon on poor neighbourhoods, most notably in the vast carceral cities of Los Angeles and Shanghai.

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