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Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

Dubal has been studying the impact of the casual labor force of ride-sharing companies in comparison to the mostly unionized, professional labor force in the cab industry. Janelle Orsi, CEO and Co-Founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center , a project of the nonprofit Community Ventures, on how The Sharing Economy Just Got Real.

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. Taking that process from individual level and extrapolating to national level." But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison? If dealing with local article, this will be unique.

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How Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Supplanting Columbus Day

Whole Whale

However, the second Monday in October is still celebrated by 14 states and about 130 local governments as Columbus Day. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. 1946: The United Nations Charter is signed, without any mention of indigenous peoples. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It includes international trade and development, security, micro-finance, LBGT rights, renewable energy advocacy, water policy, security, human rights for indigenous people, terrorism financing, refugee protection policies and rights, law enforcement, trafficking, peace in conflict areas, and poverty reduction.

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[VIDEO] Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

Bloomerang

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. This is a campaign for an organization called the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. So you control your website, your social media, your email. So that makes total sense.

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #4: Transparency for Special Education Services

Forum One

The burden falls to the special education departments within local school districts. Parents have no way to make intelligent choices or advocate based on demonstrated success and special education administrators have no leverage to demand adequate funding from school boards (and school boards from state and local governments, etc.).