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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. National MS Society :: @ MSSociety.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Amazon employees in North Carolina vote against joining union

Fast Company Tech

About three-quarters of employees at an Amazon fulfillment center in Garner, a town located near Raleigh, voted against joining a grassroots labor organization called Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment, the National Labor Relations Board announced Saturday.

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Using data to enact lasting, systemic police and justice reforms

Tableau

In parallel, the Tableau Foundation launched the Racial Justice Data Initiative to build the data capacity of national, regional, and community-based organizations working to fight anti-Black racism in the United States. Seven of those proposals ultimately become law—contributing to a more just and trustworthy system.

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Inadequate federal privacy regulations leave US startups lagging behind Europe

TechCrunch

A new law to follow” seems unlikely to have featured on many business wishlists this holiday season, particularly if that law concerned data privacy. But for 2021, I believe startups in the United States should be demanding that legislators deliver a federal privacy law. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Unit tests an easier way for workers to organize

TechCrunch

“Tech-enabled organizing kept coming back to the forefront [of my ideas], and being both the most exciting to me personally, but also I think the most impactful in the ways I wanted to see the world change in terms of income inequality and individual empowerment,” he said. The typical cost of national union dues is 1.5% labor laws.

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This founder raised millions to build Fair, a neobank for immigrants

TechCrunch

Over the past year, the nation has seen a surge of neobanks emerge aimed at specific demographics, including Greenwood , First Boulevard and Cheese. They also comply with Jewish law. And, it’s also working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and World Relief, and will donate 2.5%

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