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July Cause Awareness: Disability Pride Month

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Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. This Disability Pride Month is a perfect time to let your elected officials know about accessibility problems in your community and policies that help and hurt the people with disabilities that they represent. On July 26, 1990, President George H.W.

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Two Crucial Themes from the GDPR Featuring in US-Privacy Legislation

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Why does an EU law have such a monumental effect on privacy globally? Second, as the strictest privacy law in the world to date, it has become the gold standard for privacy frameworks. Some of them may not apply to your organization, but it’s a good place to begin evaluating how robust your policy is. Register today!

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Why Privacy Matters (or Should) to Nonprofits

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Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). What many businesses (and nonprofits) don't realize is that Federal law doesn't protect commercial accounts the same way it protects personal accounts. What is your bank doing to protect you?

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Volunteerism Keeps Proving Its Value (Especially When Skills Are Given)

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If you’re a philanthropy geek like me who loves to monitor what data tell us about engagement and investment in what I consider a part of our collective moral fabric, you’ll be even more thrilled to hear that some states in the US are even surpassing $23.56 (kudos to Massachusetts, California and New York for setting the pace we all need to run).

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3 Topics for Medical Society Execs to Watch

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Shawn Martin , Senior Vice President, Advocacy, Practice Advancement, and Policy, . The new Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP), established by the MACRA law, is intended to streamline the Medicare reporting programs, incentivize movement toward value-based payment, and ideally improve patient care. Association Management Challenge.

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Juneteenth Resources

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The Conscious Kid —The Conscious Kid is an education, research, and policy organization that supports families and educators in taking action to disrupt racism, inequity and bias. The Color of Law. NAACP Legal Defense Fund —LDF works to protect the most vulnerable in our society. Attend Events . This book is anti-racist.

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Must Modern Philanthropy Be So Corrosive?

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As new details emerged last week of Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this question took on new relevance. This morning, I asked MIT’s General Counsel to engage a prominent law firm to design and conduct this process.