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Run a Productive, Fun Nonprofit Board Meeting

Get Fully Funded

There are two things that can help A LOT here: organizational by-laws and Board member job descriptions. By-laws What do by-laws have to do with Board meetings? If your by-laws do NOT include these things, you and your Board need to make this a priority to create these policies and amend your by-laws as soon as possible.

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4 Ways to Help Your Grantmaking Organization Adopt an Emergent Learning Mindset

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Instead of providing direct answers to their problems, how are you helping them solve their own conundrums? Another way to bend the laws of time around learning is to create space for collective learning. Go get your own knowledge if your organization is not ready. Stop putting learning and innovation in a separate bucket.

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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Without these, the metaverse risks inheriting the problems of today’s social media, if not becoming something worse. There I was, being virtually groped in a snowy fortress with my brother-in-law and husband watching. It will also require regulation with teeth to keep Big Tech accountable to the public interest. Get the idea?

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Interview with Bryan Stevenson: On Juneteenth and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. Bryan Stevenson (BS): It’s important that we have a new consciousness about the problems created by our history. You should seek a mission. It’s not always obvious.

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Building a Tech-Driven Legal Aid Network for the 21st Century

Saleforce Nonprofit

And in most civil cases (typically those covering issues of housing, family, and consumer law), people represent themselves because there is generally no right to legal counsel in civil matters. In 2013, CARPLS moved its case- and knowledge-management system to a customized version on Salesforce. live in near poverty. Rosen, U.S.

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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

EveryAction

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Check out our last installment here ! Don’t spread yourself thin playing where you can’t win.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. copyright law.

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