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How you can help save declining butterflies

Fast Company Tech

Photo: USFWS/ Flickr ] We found declines in just about every region of the continental U.S. Photo: Renee Las Vegas/ Wiki Commons ] Some species numbers are dropping faster than others. Photo: Walter Siegmund/ Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA] When we looked at each species by its historical range , we found something else interesting.

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Strong boards make strong nonprofits: What you need to know

Candid

Federal and state laws require a nonprofit’s board members to assume responsibility for the organization’s well-being–meaning it can be held responsible if something goes wrong financially or operationally. By contrast, a governing board is bound by law to oversee management of the organization. Or is doing too much?

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Bill To Pull Tax Exemptions Headed Back To Congress

The NonProfit Times

(Photo By Deposit Photos) Language that would allow the U.S. Such a policy would disregard the Constitutional principle of due process, various nonprofit leaders told The NonProfit Times on background. Such a policy totally disregards the Constitutional principle of due process. Section 4 of H.R.9495

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Doing good, wrong? The role of philanthropy in keeping people safe

Candid

Inconsistent legal and regulatory framework: While federal laws such as the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act provide guidelines for child protection, safeguarding practices for other vulnerable groups and in broader contexts are less defined. Photo credit: Karen Hatch The post Doing good, wrong?

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Texas sued over terrible social media law

The Verge

Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images. NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) have sued to stop Texas from enforcing HB 20, a new law barring large social media companies from banning users or removing content based on the “viewpoint” of the user. Nobody wants any more spam.”.

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As 2012 Winds Down

NCE Social Media

First, not even the former marketing director of Facebook knows how the privacy policies at Facebook work. On Christmas Day Randi posted a family photo on Facebook. Shortly after posting someone posted the photo to Twitter. She asked the person to remove the photo from Twitter. She thought only her friends could see it.

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Inside the booming edibles economy

Fast Company Tech

Photo: Rose] The recreational cannabis landscape has been rapidly changing in recent years. The explosion of hemp-derived cannabis products has helped quicken the normalization of cannabis, says John Kagia , the director of cannabis policy in New York and an industry analyst.

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