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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. Let’s take a look at what we can learn from the history of nonprofit organizations. From the late 1800s up until 1920, the U.S. entered the Progressive Era.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. Instead, during a sensitive time, Yahoo found itself publicly announcing that it had been hacked—the largest in history—by a “state-sponsored actor.”

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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup

That year, the United Nations declared International Women's Year , and began sponsoring International Women's Day every March 8. It had had a really interesting history before that though. women became the majority of law students. Law and Advocacy. More About International Women's Day. Last year, U.S.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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Governor Schwarzenegger signed the California State Divestment Bill into law, and from there Adam took the campaign nationally. It was being sponsored by the Genocide Intervention Network. We followed up a few weeks later and the Senator ended up becoming a major sponsor and a big supporter of the movement.

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Our EveryAction Hero: Jewish Voice for Peace

Everyaction

Jewish Voice for Peace has been around for 20 years, We’re a national organization with over 70 chapters and 15,000 members across the country. We do everything from legislative organizing to engaging in campaigns that seek to put nonviolent pressure on the government both in the US and Israel to respect international law.

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

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Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. They build a building, and then they just fill it up, and there's an architecture firm, and a law firm, and whatever. Below is a transcript of my interview with him for the Big Vision Podcast.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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It is a good thing we are doing this in Women's History Month. Almost nowhere else in the world can you go and find the range of nationalities, ethnicities, race, language and backgrounds that you have here--not to mention the delicious food. I think my comment in The Nation was really more about that.

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