The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

According to Reuters , the country’s legislature will introduce a bill that criminalizes trading, mining, issuing, transferring, or possessing cryptocurrency. China, which has some of the harshest policies, prohibits trading coins but does not outlaw owning them.

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2010

On August 4, the New York Times broke the bombshell that Verizon and Google were meeting about net neutrality to broker their own proposal. Then, on August 9, Google and Verizon took a left turn, and announced their own joint proposal for an "open internet." What we DON'T buy is that this proposal is a viable solution.

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 22, 2024

So, as AVO treasurers, what accountability and transparency issues should you be most concerned with? Alternatively, the board might set a policy that permits one signature for small checks below a certain amount, say $50, in order to help discourage checks from being signed in advance. for more on these issues.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This week on The Vergecast, Verge executive editor Dieter Bohn chats with managing editor Alex Cranz, and news editor Chaim Gartenberg to explain the changing Apple App Store policies for iPhone app developers. The crew discuss what this and the other proposed changes means for Apple’s relationship with users and app developers.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2025

In my experience, the process begins with analyzing what has gone on in the past fiscal year (or two) and culminates with proposing budget amounts that are reasonable and a bit of a stretch goal. External Issues A few things in recent years have caused us all to need to adjust our budgets. Honest communication is the best policy.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 12, 2023

In “ Learning Universal Policies via Text-Guided Video Generation ”, we propose a Universal Policy (UniPi) that addresses environmental diversity and reward specification challenges. Video policies generated by UniPi. Planning methods often circumvent this issue by leveraging a natural hierarchy in planning.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

“The platform is so massive, but there’s almost no scholarly investigation into it,” says Marco Zenone, a health policy researcher at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. That’s why, along with collaborators, earlier this month he published a proposed research agenda outlining the areas experts need to investigate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We get a huge amount of pro bono assistance from the legal profession, both because of our social impact as a nonprofit, and because of the challenging and interesting issues we tackle. We are now looking for a half-time general counsel to join our team and manage the host of legal issues we are always investigating.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

And, everybody is working on something and usually is interested in several issues. In the morning, I attended a session put on by the Young Global Leaders with six interesting proposals. When I first attended, social issues were not top (or middle) of the agenda.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The Proposals A. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR). law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

billion sustainable investment firm has filed a shareholder resolution asking the board of directors for a third-party review of current policies. Google claims she violated its security policies. It’s important to lift that up because they use trade secrets and data policy as an excuse for retaliating against worker organizers.”.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have agreed to rescind a policy that would require international students to take in-person classes in order to remain in the US. The agencies have reached an agreement with Harvard and MIT, who filed a lawsuit on July 8th over the policy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

EsTech seems likely to press that line of argument — although at the time of writing it was still preparing its policy plan. So we are going to take this as a base scenario and try to propose different improvements,” says Szpilka. “The other thing that we need is investment. All the tax incentives.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I'm in Kyoto, Japan for the STS forum, an incredible gathering of top scientists and policy leaders from around the world. The biggest idea I heard was that while mitigation is a global issue, climate adaptation will be a local issue. The event is the brainchild of Koji Omi, former Finance Minister of Japan.

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

” This action will focus on typical algorithm-related issues such as homogenized content recommendations creating “information cocoons,” manipulation and interference with trending topics on different platforms, blind profit pursuit harming the rights of workers in new employment forms (e.g.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We believe that the issues described here will create frustration and confusion for customers, resulting in a sub-par experience on Apple devices relative to the equivalent experience on all other platforms,” she wrote. Our proposal for bringing games through individual apps was designed to comply with App Store policies.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Though, the new Watch is reportedly facing manufacturing issues that could lead to delays.) Apple announced a number of recent App Store policy changes , though they only mildly address developer concerns. And with proposed legislation in multiple countries , increased regulatory scrutiny , and the looming verdict in the Epic Games v.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

In a landmark acknowledgment of the toll that content moderation takes on its workforce, Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to current and former moderators to compensate them for mental health issues developed on the job. Several moderators told The Verge that they had been diagnosed with PTSD after working for Facebook.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

The idea is for EU Member States to implement a set of “best practice” policies for startups (many of which already exist in parts of the EU), ranging from startup visas to better implementation of stock options in company law. Therefore, its significance is not to be underestimated.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Nonprofit Grant Proposal Budget Calculations: A Road Map Whats the best way to make your nonprofits budget stand out on a grant application? Author Mary Diegert shares nonprofit grant proposal budgeting tips, and a road map for overcoming the challenges of calculating the revenue and expense numbers that will populate your one-page budget.

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Mitigating future risks: Why your organization should have an AI policy. Having an organization-wide AI policy can help maximize the benefits of using these tools while minimizing the risks. The top 3 benefits of AI for fundraisers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

Foundation, we trust those who are closest to the issues affecting their communities. Foundation does, including our calls for funding proposals and how organizations are invited to apply. I believe it is fostering the love of people and that pathway to change that is the role and mandate of philanthropic institutions and funders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

Last week, the community foundation finished its first Minnesota Open Idea contest to fund the best idea to address the childhood obesity issue. Why did you pick the childhood obesity issue for the challenge? Then the group came together and debated the highest-scored proposals and whittled the pool down to 21 ideas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

In addition, the Library of Congress is the agency responsible for issuing regulations supporting Section 121. The Request for Proposal specified that only an authorized entity could receive an award in that competition.

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Tableau

MAY 24, 2021

In this spirit, Salesforce created the Racial Equality & Justice Task Force to drive systemic change in our workplace and community across four Ps: people, purchasing, philanthropy, and policy. Guided by the nonpartisan policy principles created by our task force, we took an analytical approach to putting our advocacy plan into motion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

Infographics can be used in different and creative ways and some obvious ones such as marketing messaging , educating about a social issue , to celebrate a successful campaign , to report to stakeholders on key performance metrics , an annual report, and even a marriage proposal ! Need some more ideas?

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

At last count, nearly one-third of the company’s employees signed an open letter condemning Activision Blizzard’s initial response to those allegations, and Kotick’s letter addresses that head-on: “Our initial responses to the issues we face together, and to your concerns, were, quite frankly, tone deaf,” he writes. Photo by J.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Having a framework is the magic wand to writing a successful grant proposal. Step #1) G – Get the FOA/RFP/NOFA The first step in developing a grant template with the GRANTS formula is to G et the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) or Request of Proposal (RFP) or NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability): i.e. the grant instructions.

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2024

Every organization should create an AI Usage Policy. Some of these tools include: OpenAI for Nonprofits: ChatGPT can help draft grant proposals, refine data analysis, or tailor communication strategies for diverse audiences. The Fundarising.AI

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Travis County Commissioner’s Court, the policy-making and administrative arm of the local government, approved an agreement on Tuesday that will save Tesla around $14 million in property taxes over the next 10 years. But, he said, “If another week is going to force Tesla to leave, then, I will, you know for maybe the first time, say.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

This will allow the team to select the right representative dataset to avoid any future data bias issues. Again, the EU is leading the way after releasing a 2021 proposal for an AI legal framework. In addition, revisiting the regulatory/policy landscape prior to launch is advisable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

Their web site tools provide useful information for grassroots advocates or anyone for that matter to stay informed on health care-related topics such as the proposed Medicaid cuts in the budget that are currently being debated in Congress. Families USA is an organization fighting for affordable health care for all Americans.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The pace of change is quickening even as Apple tries to stop it Apple’s app store policies have caused controversy and consternation many times over the years, but few periods have been as active and strange as the last two weeks. As time goes on, policy changes are coming faster and the hairs Apple is splitting are getting thinner.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Requesting it post-award, or post decision to invite a proposal for invitation-only funders, serves to reinforce that this data is not a factor in funding decisions. This resulted in a review of TCE’s grantmaking policies that may have inadvertently disadvantaged and disqualified smaller budget organizations, many of which were BIPOC-led.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

About 45 residents of Austin and the surrounding area spoke about the factory deal on Tuesday at a virtual public meeting held by the Travis County Commissioners Court , the policy-making and administrative arm of the local government. But some Travis County residents still took issue with the proposal at Tuesday’s meeting.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

The SEC also proposed an amendment to expand custody rules to include crypto assets, which could limit how any crypto custodian, including exchanges, could interact with crypto. A similar sentiment was expressed by Jake Chervinsky, chief policy officer at the Blockchain Association. I don’t think so.

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