Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. federal law supports braille instruction. Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

” 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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Third, the print book is not universally accessible. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Many books are never published because of the costs. And, the U.S. Senate just ratified the Treaty!

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In particular, “nonprofit” is a term associated with state law, while “tax-exempt” is a term associated with federal tax law. While LLC laws vary from state to state, an LLC generally: Doesn’t need to file an annual report. Of particular importance, Arizona LLC law does not currently permit the organization of nonprofit LLCs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle. Recently Target settled out of court with the National Federation of the Blind about its accessible website after Target suffered a couple of reverses in the court case against them. Roy Blount Jr.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Vu’s passion to make the world better, combined with a low score on the Law School Admission Test, drove him into the field of nonprofit work, where he learned that we should take the work seriously, but not ourselves. She also teaches in the philanthropy graduate program at Saint Mary’s University, Minnesota, USA. And counting.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

The ones that did not get the message are either working under a rock, willfully noncompliant, or closed up without telling the authorities. The National Center for Charitable Statistics notes that 90 percent of these organizations have never filed any kind of return. The fourth one is The Nations Missing Children, in Phoenix.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. Students outside the United States are not covered by this national copyright exception, because every country has its own copyright law.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

It also requires formalizing the informal economy and extending the coverage of labour law for protection to those who are the most vulnerable. Achieving Universal Access to Social Protection. Decent work requires an adequate minimum wage based on dialogue and collective bargaining between workers’ organisations and employers.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 3, 2021

Trailhead, Partner University) . Work Authorization : Citizens or Permanent Residents of USA or Canada. Cloud for Good complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. Fluency in current Salesforce training programs (e.g.,

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This isn’t new, it’s just amped up” says company culture expert Josh Levine, author of Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Employees Love. Harassment, in the legal sense, is “a word that people throw around a bit too easily” says Jennifer Rodriquez, a labor and employment attorney with the Dallas based law firm Culhane Meadows.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Since then he has authored several books and has become a voice for change in the nonprofit sector. Gather the best thinkers to design a national civil rights act for charity and social enterprise. Challenge unconstitutional laws targeted at the sector. Act as an anti-defamation league for the sector.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

There really isn’t a clear definition that is universally accepted in the sector. These are all channels that your organization can direct and basically do whatever you want with, within reason and the law, at your own discretion. So you control your website, your social media, your email. This is an example of owned media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

As I’m sprinting to towards the deadline of my next book on Measurement and Networked Nonprofits , co-authoring with the goddess of measurement, KD Paine , I’m grateful to have some terrific guest posts like this one. Note from Beth : Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

And I started a young professionals board, the National Women’s Political Caucus of Metro St. This is from my experience working with a young professionals board, being a millennial and serving on them, as well as, especially, I founded a young professionals board for the National Women’s Political Caucus of Metro St.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Andrew Keen (via video), author of Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture. This is politics – we need the good and the bad; the cyber army, the 10,000 bloggers claimed to be trained by the national guard, etc. site we had to be compliant with Chinese law. Kevin Anderson, blogs editor of the Guardian.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Jeremy Weinstein: And I’m the third member of the teaching team and the author team for this book, Jeremy Weinstein. And we need a set of companies that see this not simply as a compliance issue—that is, “Are we following the law?”—but, How do we weigh them off against some of our other goals?”

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And then we have two other projects, Police Watch that deals with police accountability and then the other one is called Books not Bars, which is addressing the injustices in the California Youth Authorities. Louis, Missouri, and I was working for an environmental law clinic as a consultant. I am the Campaign Director at MoveOn.org.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Lastly, we travel to advocate for the world to change, from a position of authority based on the change our organizations are already delivering. It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal).

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