AFP Blog

MAY 18, 2015

What To Do When Your Nonprofit Becomes The Target Of A Phishing Scam - Corporate/Commercial Law - United States : "During the first half of 2014, there were 6,271 phishing attacks that targeted the "dot-org" Internet domain name often used by nonprofits, according to a study by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, a consortium of industry groups and international (..)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

The United States Senate has a terrific opportunity to expand opportunity The United States Senate has just been presented with the ratification package for the Marrakesh Treaty. The creation of Bookshare was made possible because of an enlightened copyright law exception. law with the Treaty language.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Mesa Verde was the first national park designated with the express purpose of preserving “the works of man.”]. The United States would not be the nation it is today without the contributions of indigenous Americans. Native American Disability Law Center. United Nations Council of Indigenous Peoples.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. Works Covered.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law before moving to Chicago in 1991 upon completing his clerkship with Judge Gerald E.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

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. As important as that is, you have shared that we still have a lot of work to do. When we teach history in the United States, we often skip the parts that are not so wonderful.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2019

According to law firm Seyfarth Shaw, its researchers counted a whopping 5,592 ADA Title III lawsuit filings within the first six months of 2019! Department of Justice (DOJ) is working to define specific guidelines to businesses and other public entities covered by the ADA. level AA standards involves a fair amount of work.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 26, 2023

million in the United States alone. That can be daunting, but don’t worry, according to the United States’ population census there are currently 335,755,690 Americans (as of writing this article) and 56% of them gave to charity in 2021. There are many amazing causes to give to and support.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

Founded by the United Nations , WHD advocates for the "safety and security of humanitarian aid workers, and for the survival, well-being and dignity of people affected by crises.". To make that vision a reality, they work tirelessly to combat the conditions that cause poverty, hunger, and social justice. AIDS United.

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Candid

MARCH 16, 2022

These resources include trusted crowdsourced lists of organizations you can support who are working directly or adjacent to the conflict. Expenditure responsibility (ER), on the other hand, looks at the intended use of the grant to ensure that they would meet the definition set out by the IRS for charitable work. based intermediary.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

BackRubbing doesn’t work. Ultimately, that admission, which started with the company admitting 500 million users affected, was followed by another stating that 1 billion people were affected to 3 billion. As most adults in the United States know, Equifax is one of the largest three credit bureaus.

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Media Cause

JUNE 10, 2022

It’s celebrated in June to commemorate the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan , a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. Urge Corporations to Stop Funding Anti-LGBTQIA+ Laws. Pride Month is a time to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community and recognize their impact on history.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Staff working long hours responding to multiple crises have little time and energy for data collection and dissemination. tax-exempt organizations file annually, are a major source of data about nonprofits and foundation grantmaking in the United States. Unfortunately, social sector data has also been impacted.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty. Amazon now ships more ebooks than print books in the United States. This is already apparent in IDEA 2004, the most recent reauthorization of national special education law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion. exception model works well here. We go to great lengths to ensure the digital works we provide are restricted to bona fide patrons with disabilities.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

With 80-90 employees working remotely across the United States, the National Development Council was looking for a better solution to staying connected. Women’s Law Project. As a small foundation, with 9 full-time members, the Women’s Law Project needed a better and more cost-effective solution.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. Another factor to consider is the limited access and high expense of processing credit cards and PayPal in Kenya compared to the United States.

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Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2024

Nonprofit organizations are groups that work for a social cause, but they do so without making a profit. Explore the different kinds of tax-exempt organizations in the United States with this comprehensive guide , covering the exact types of nonprofits and their classifications. Is your nonprofit redundant?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The National Retail Federation expects online holiday sales in the United States to increase 14 percent to $163 billion in 2019. Proceeds benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit that works to defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Benetech has some of the juiciest and most exciting range of legal challenges I can imagine: the great majority of our legal work concerns intellectual property and human rights. We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally.

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DipJar

APRIL 14, 2022

They are a DipJar customer whose cause and work deserve to be highlighted. Calling him Tour Coordinator doesn’t begin to describe his work, as he also assists with bookkeeping, marketing efforts, various special projects, and — yes — giving tours to visitors from around the world. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As the operators of Bookshare in the USA, which was made possible through a great exception in our copyright law here, we would love to make all of our books available to people with qualifying disabilities around the world. It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support.

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Neon CRM

MAY 23, 2023

For hundreds of years, AAPI contributions to art, science, medicine, culture, architecture, and other areas have shaped the United States, and they continue to do so today. The group began its work in January of 2020 as a response to rising violence toward AAPI communities and has been working to end racial violence ever since.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. This ruling by the Supreme Court in Sony Corp.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The United States was drawn into the war in the spring of 1917. It is a basic feature of the charitable sector in the United States. The resolution opens with the observation that the deduction “is one of the oldest preferences in tax law.” How does the deduction work? How does the deduction work?

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Media Cause

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s been 58 years since Congress passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963—and in the United States, women are still only making 82 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Or if you’d rather look at it in terms of hourly work, using a 9-5 schedule, women work for free after 2:40pm every day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

copyright law. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law. The biggest area of our work to date is for schools in the U.S., When we do, almost all of them are inadvertent: basically users who don't understand how technical things work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. The next challenge we’re working on is to bring this incredible library to the rest of the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2016

What laws they violate. We have seen this problem here in the United States and around the world. We should not compel them to work against the interests of us, their users. Who they love. What religion they profess. Their ethnicity. What drugs (legal or illegal) they consume. What content they read or watch.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2013

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. United States. You might try your state's nonprofit association. In the U.S.,

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

I hope as you plan for and execute on your 2020 priorities you will keep in mind the many external factors that impact your work and your day-to-day activities. And yes, public policy at the local, state, and federal levels can and will impact your ability to achieve your organization’s mission and day-to-day activities.

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

That’s why every July in the United States, it’s important to observe Disability Pride Month! Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. There is so much diversity in the world, but one type of diversity that often gets overlooked or forgotten is disability diversity. On July 26, 1990, President George H.W.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Michelle Obama, by being an educated, black woman from a working-class family, has revolutionized the role of first lady simply by being herself.". She relates her entire experience pre-fame, from growing up working-class on the South Side of Chicago, to being an Ivy League undergrad/law graduate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. As we have explained in other Beneblog and Bookshare blog posts, these are exciting times for everyone who has been working to meet the imperative to provide people with print disabilities equal access to published information. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

I work in membership at Bookshare and I believe in bilingualism. Why shouldn’t visually impaired and disabled students in the United States have easy access to the study of the languages? Guest blog by Paddy Sullivan Hola! My name is Paddy Sullivan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. He went on to become Benetech’s Vice President of Human Rights and led our human rights work for nine years. Photo credits: Rom Srinivasan and Patrick Ball.

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