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Solutions Day 2023—It’s Happening!

.orgSource

Nonprofit attorney Kimberly Pendo, a founding member of Chicago Law Partners, is going to discuss the issues we all need to understand. Also on her agenda is how copyright law and fair use apply to AI. Quick Takes—These 20-Minute Snap Shots for Smart Outcomes offer solutions to practical problems like these: We launched our new AMS.

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Low Pay, Working Conditions Pushing Union Drive In Denver

The NonProfit Times

An organizer told The NonProfit Times they have gathered signatures of support from close to 200 of the slightly more than 600 non-management colleagues, enough to trigger a unionization vote under the National Labor Relations Act’s minimum 30% threshold. Low pay is part of the problem in her view. and $25.14

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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

EveryAction

When you have a goal to meet—like asking a governing body to sign a bill into law, telling a CEO or other stakeholder to change a behavior or policy, or meeting goals around educating decision-makers on your issue area—you know you can’t do it alone. Don’t spread yourself thin playing where you can’t win. Connect with her on LinkedIn !

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is especially acute for accessibility for the blind and disabled, where the TPMs cannot technically distinguish between accessing the content for the making of an illegal copy, or accessing the content to speak it aloud with a synthetic voice or to create a Braille version. In some markets, printed books are receding into the past.

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

NonProfit Hub

When problems emerge, you have to think of new and creative ways to deal with them. During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. This was also a decade of prosperity and success for many in the nation towards the turn of the century. Go big, or go home.

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What about those leaked reports from Facebook and Instagram?

Top Nonprofits

We can use our voice and our economic power and our political power to actually make changes to the platform. And that’s another question that I get, I’m not, you know, by any means an expert in, in business and an expert in this kind of law. And my podcast is nonprofit nations. Amy DeVita, TopNonprofits : Yeah.

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Join Our #NPTechChat on Civil Society Under Threat — A Deeper Dive

Tech Soup

On October 6, 2015, join TechSoup, CIVICUS, the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, FHI 360, and +SocialGood for a deeper dive into the threats that civil society faces. Founded in 1993, CIVICUS proudly promotes marginalized voices, especially from the Global South, and has members in more than 160 countries throughout the world.

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