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Seeds for a Future

ASU Lodestar Center

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A copyright exception allows specialist organizations (generally a government agency or disability NGO or library) to make an accessible version of a published book without having to get permission from the author or publisher. It includes pressuring national governments to enforce existing accessibility laws.

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Easier Global Giving Through NGOsource; Service Launches March 18, 2013

Tech Soup

Global giving appeals to grantmakers of all sizes and types, from family foundations with enduring legacies to new foundations exploring novel pathways of giving. Yet the costs and challenges of complying with the regulations that govern cross-border grantmaking have been a barrier to U.S. All of this is about to change.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. 15th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. 15th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Planned Giving Primer.

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RightsCon: The Promise and Peril of New Communications Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And the circumstances under which user data is provided to governments, or human rights information and accounts are taken down from services are not always transparent. Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference. Sam Gregory.

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Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

philanthropic ecosystem — with established foundations, corporate giving programs, private donors, and 501(c)(3) classified nonprofit organizations — is not a blueprint that can be or has been replicated around the world. It is easy to forget that the U.S. Direct help or assistance funds are mushrooming.

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Be a Blogger for Human Rights

Have Fun - Do Good

Anyway, he mentioned that he set up a Typepad blog for Witness' Director, Gillian Caldwell to document her trip to Sierra Leone with Angelina Jolie to deliver recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to the government. You can expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. blogging human rights