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Understanding how California AB 488 impacts online charitable fundraising

Candid

A new law that went into effect in California on January 1, 2023, AB 488 is aimed at improving transparency and accountability in online charitable fundraising. While AB 488 is a California law, it could impact all charities in the United States that solicit donations in California, not just those headquartered in the state.

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Is your nonprofit organization ‘grant-ready’? 

Candid

Candid offers many resources to support organizations in searching for funding opportunities, writing grant proposals, and standing out among applicants. By law, foundations can only give to organizations if they are set up for a charitable purpose , as defined by the IRS. You can learn more about filing for 501(c)(3) status here.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Google, which is the most-used search engine globally, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both were Ph.D. At the time, search engines, which were not widely used, provided results based on how many times a search term appeared on a page. . students at Stanford University. Facebook Cambridge Analytica.

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Privacy-First Marketing for Nonprofits

Media Cause

There are a few essential tools when auditing a website’s user privacy settings: #1 VPN Clients: You can visit the website from various countries to see if the cookie consent banner is updated to reflect the law of the land. We don’t believe that “privacy-first marketing” is an oxymoron.

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Free Legal Services for Charities Anyone?

Tech Soup

Many law firms do much more pro bono work than 50 hours. TechSoup has had an ongoing relationship with the famous Silicon Valley law firm, Cooley LLP for several years. TechSoup’s Pro Bono Law Firm, Cooley LLP. lawyer matching service that lets you search for lawyers by location and also topic (e.g. International.

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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

” California’s New Smartphone Kill Switch Law. California is finalizing a law that will mandate a ‘kill switch’ be included on all new smartphones. The problem this new law addresses is that last year an estimated 3.1 The effect of the law will be pretty fast. million phones were stolen in the U.S.,

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10 Free Nonprofit iPhone Apps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With AiCandle App supporters can light the iCandle and be a human rights activist by taking part in international campaigns and petitions to ensure that more prisoners of conscience are released, death sentences are commuted, torturers are brought to justice and governments are persuaded to change their laws and practices.

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