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Can you have your cake and eat it too?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That was the question in the “The Intertwining Services Funding with Policy Initiatives to Achieve Systems Change” session at GEO. Funders develop service delivery projects, in this case around behavioral health, and used the efforts to facilitate policy change. Buckshot policy is possible. – Guest post by David C.

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11 Hispanic and Latino Organizations Everyone Should Know

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NALEO Educational Fund is the nation’s leading non-profit, non-partisan organization that facilitates full Latino participation in the American political process, from citizenship to public service. Grassroots Leadership organizes communities to fight back against detention and deportation both in Texas and nationally. Voto Latino.

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Research Friday: Executive Directors’ Top Seven Roles for their Boards of Directors

ASU Lodestar Center

Texas A&M University. Policy oversight. Fund development involves facilitating and negotiating optimal relationships that support the growth of assets. Policy Oversight. Policy oversight refers to the control function of the board, to provide guidance and oversight for the organization. Brown, Ph.D.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. For the past four years, I’ve designed and facilitated panels on social media and nonprofit topics that were fun learning experiences and well documented. Social Media Boundaries: Personal/Personnel Policy.

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Transforming Nonprofit Staff Into Champions on Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today I presented on a “featured session” at the United Way Community Leaders Conference in Grapevine, Texas. ” I facilitated an interactive featured session on why and how leaders should be engaged on social as well as other insiders (employees, board, and volunteers). Social Media Policy: Building Good Judgement.

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Refurbishment Arrives On the Big Stage

Tech Soup

It is the United States' first comprehensive policy that addresses the proper handling of used or discarded electronics devices. The policy is designed to increase industrial capacity in electronics recycling, refurbishment, and remanufacturing to increase the number of US-based green jobs and the safe handling of discarded electronics.

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Need a New Year Recharge? Attend These Nonprofit Conferences in 2024

Allegiance Group

Attend If You’re: A fundraising professional in Florida To Register: [link] 2024 AMA Marketing and Public Policy Conference Washington, DC June 6-8, 2024 This year’s AMA Conference will focus on work that addresses the relationships between marketing and public policy activities at the micro, meso, and macro perspectives.