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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

Get Fully Funded

If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. Include email addresses of all employees and phone numbers of those who work directly with volunteers. Most volunteers don’t know the law exists.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

We need real competition instead of the cable and phone company duopoly. These phone and cable companies control 97 percent of the residential broadband market. The FCC should review policies governing competition and pricing. Bad policy decisions should be reversed. The same is true for the nation's top cable companies.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

E-books, therefore, make access to information an affordable reality, as more and more people, including students, have a device in their pocket capable of operating as an accessible e-reader: from inexpensive mobile phones and MP3 players to Braille note-takers that can store thousands of e-books in digital Braille.

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A Nonprofit’s Legal Counsel Is The Social Media Manager’s Best Friend!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session will focus on exploring how nonprofits are expanding their efforts to influence public policy through social channels and understanding the legal issues and how to evaluate the work. (I’ll The “ Influencing Public Policy in A Digital Age ” is their comprehensive guide.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. They then place social entrepreneurs in the direct action and systems change box.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. The latest update of the law is expected to be formally approved in 2014. has a patchwork of laws in half of the U.S.

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Why Apple isn't the Nonprofit App Grinch | Nonprofit Trends with.

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I would also argue that a petition to the phone carriers to increase the $10 limit on text-to-give in the United States would have much greater impact on the nonprofit sector. Next up is to get carriers in other countries to adopt a similar practice. Is Apple's policy the worst threat to NPOs today? smaclaughlin Peter.I

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