Sentences with phrase «other nonprofit use»

Not exact matches

«I thought it was going to start with nonprofits» using the platform to fundraise, Beshara says, but the friends he invited to test it out had other ideas: «They hijacked it to use for a fantasy football league, for a friend's birthday, for a party bus.»

Other charities that have benefited from the organization include healthcare outsourcing platform Watsi; The Water Project; the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital - rights activism group; MAPS, an organization that studies therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs and marijuana; the medical nonprofit SENS Research Foundation; and charity: water.

Under its Internet and American Life Project, the Washington, D.C., - based nonprofit released a report that took stock of the year in social media and the findings show that we're all, unsurprisingly, connecting with each other online in a big way, with 73 percent of «online adults» using social media.

In addition to standard recyclable items, some Franklin Templeton sites also facilitate recycling of used batteries, eyeglasses, mobile phones, and other items that are donated to community nonprofit organizations.

Still in draft form, the Code of Conduct commits signatories to faithful compliance with Charitable Choice; to straightforward and consistent communication about their religious identity among their volunteers, service beneficiaries, donors and government partners; to refraining from using government funding for «confessional activities»; to winsome and gentle witness; to love of neighbor; to freedom from religious coercion; to nondiscrimination toward program participants; to faithfulness to their mission; to credible and objective evaluation procedures; to avoidance of «turf wars» with other FBOs and nonprofits; and to rigorous financial accountability.

She asked for prayers for Woman at the Well, a small nonprofit she was starting for women to do what others had done for her — take them off the streets, out of prostitution and drug use and teach them about Jesus» great love for them.

It helps schools, churches and other nonprofit groups by outlining the steps needed to use LaRue Coffee products for fund raising.

Babywearing Twin Cities is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to to build the bond between babies and caregivers through baby carrier education and support; to provide a community education service and distribute baby carriers to individuals and other organizations for their use; and to celebrate babywearing among caregivers through online and in - person gatherings.

While the size of an organization is not necessarily the prime measure for success on the Internet, a robust and strategic use of funds and other resources to sell a nonprofit's message to legislators, business leaders, potential donors and the general public, using all the online tools at one's disposal — even in conjunction with other communications media, like direct mail — is mandatory.

A decade or so ago, it was common for nonprofits and campaigns that wanted a database - driven Content Management System for their website (s) to have one built just for them by a vendor using Cold Fusion, Perl or some other development language or environment.

Two high - profile political leaders — female friends despite party differences — are at odds over Nassau's plan to charge more than $ 1 million in fees to Little Leagues and other sports and nonprofit organizations that have used county parks for free for years.

The potential benefits to nonprofits of the Google / Salesforce merger are a little beyond my ken, since I've never used Salesforce as a constituent - relations - management tool, but fortunately others in the community are more on the ball on this one.

AG Eric Schneiderman is investigating Yitzhok Leshinsky, a donor to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, who received millions in city funds to run a homeless services nonprofit, and used some of that money as loans for his other businesses.

Wikipedia and a slew of other sites may have shut down today to protest SOPA, but that's not the only big story in the online advocacy space this week: yesterday Blackbaud announced that the company would be buying Convio, a leading provider of email advocacy and online fundraising for nonprofits and trade associations (disclaimer: my current employer uses Convio for our email - list management).

Land acquired by the county can be conveyed to a party other than the Albany County Land Bank if the county itself will use the land; if it goes to another government entity or nonprofit for preservation; or if it will be used for economic development by «properly vetted third parties.»

Those include a lead paint scandal at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the city's involvement in a discussion about whether to lift a deed restriction on a nonprofit AIDS hospice, the Administration for Children's Services» (ACS) mishandling child neglect cases, and former Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Joseph Ponte and other agency brass using city vehicles for personal trips.

Rep. Meeks and some of his closest political allies in New York, including Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith and former Rep. Floyd Flake (D - NY), his predecessor in Congress, are the subject of a federal probe into their dealings with several nonprofit groups.41 According to press reports, investigators are looking into whether Rep. Meeks and the others used the groups to «benefit themselves, their families, and their friends.»

The councils are also the conduits for dozens of other applications for state funding — for everything from sewer repairs to theater grants — that businesses, nonprofit groups and municipalities can apply for using a single application.

What's more, when governments and nonprofit organizations try to bring back grasslands, forests, and other ecosystems destroyed by agriculture and other human uses, they are often disappointed: Restoration can take decades.

Instead, she was a «rotator,» on leave from SRI International, a nonprofit research institute in Menlo Park, California, under a program that NSF uses far more than any other federal research agency (see Part 1, «NSF Urged to Improve Oversight of Program for Scientists on Loan»).

Over 1,000 brands, agencies, nonprofits, and other businesses have used this experienced service to personalize and publicize content on their websites.

Nonprofit Global Nomads Group has a mission of building connections across borders for kids around the world, and they make use of the empathy - building capabilities of VR to allow viewers to walk in the shoes of young people from other places.

In the 24 states where online charter schools exist, some are locally operated by nonprofits using commercial platforms and content, some nonprofits contract with local partners for content and instructional services, and other nonprofits contract with national partners.

A nonprofit organization helps children in the Mumbai slums and other impoverished areas improve their futures by training them to use computers.

Hawkins served for seven years as director of the Center for Children and Technology, in New York City, a nonprofit group conducting research and development on the appropriate use of technologies in schools, homes, and other settings.

In exchange, she sought money for the public system, limitation of vouchers» use to private schools in the city, and discussion of a «Marshall Plan» for public schools, charter schools, and other nonprofit education facilities in the city.

Her academic and career focus is on how nonprofit and social enterprises can build digital experiences and use other technology to improve their own products and help schools boost social - emotional competencies.

He is also devoting his time at his nonprofit, Student Achievement Partners, to create checklists other schools can use to find good textbooks that match the Common Core.

Other nonprofit organizations that use the tax - exempt bonds, like hospitals and universities, have many more financing resources than charters, he noted.

The Education Corps is designed to provide tutoring and after - school support but not necessarily to train future teachers.92 The VISTA program matches corps members with a nonprofit organization to perform capacity building and provides yearlong stipends, but it is not intended for provision of direct services.93 The Professional Corps, which specifies teaching as one of its qualified positions, allows participants to access Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards — which recipients can use either for loan forgiveness or for paying tuition and other qualifying educational expenses — but increases residency program costs because residents are prohibited from receiving stipends through AmeriCorps and must therefore be paid through their program or the school district.94 None of these programs were designed for supported entry specifically; thus, programs dedicated to providing a gradual on - ramp to the teaching profession can sometimes find it hard to meet their definitions and requirements.

«By helping our clients develop, format and distribute eBooks, we create platforms our clients can use to build brands, promote executives, raise funds for nonprofits, and sell other services and products they offer.»

Most housing assistance programs in Florida, such as HUD's public housing or Section 8 programs and other affordable projects provided by state and local government and nonprofits, use HUD's annual income limits.

In addition to standard recyclable items, some Franklin Templeton sites also facilitate recycling of used batteries, eyeglasses, mobile phones, and other items that are donated to community nonprofit organizations.

There are reasons for staff attorneys at NCLC and the FTC, and many others, to assume I worked at a nonprofit when I explained the business model my company used for debt settlement.

What follows focuses mostly on the aspersions nonprofit credit counseling agencies (CCA's) lob at the other side while they actively, yet quietly, attempt to carve out a niche for themselves that would enable them to offer «Less Than Full Balance Plans» or «Credit Solution Plans» — which is just word play for their offering debt settlement (can't use a term they have vilified for years).

Nonprofit entities may use funds for housing and economic development and other activities that promote neighborhood revitalization.

We can not use most other brands of pet food, and donations of other brands are then passed on to other nonprofits.

(5) «Animal shelter» means a facility which is used to house or contain seized, stray, homeless, quarantined, abandoned or unwanted animals and which is under contract with, owned, operated, or maintained by a county, city, town, or other municipality, or by a duly incorporated humane society, animal welfare society, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or other nonprofit organization devoted to the welfare, protection, rehabilitation, or humane treatment of animals.

Such slavish adherence to current market trends has been the failure of other nonprofits, such as LAXART (where Garcia used to work).

Jason Andrew has been a longtime activist in the Bushwick artists» community, which burst into unanticipated coherence and visibility last April at the Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, with the three - evening run of In The Use of Others for the Change, produced by Andrew's nonprofit organization, Norte Maar.

Divide the company's GHG footprint by its contribution to GDP, as measured by gross profit (or EBITDA + Operating Expenditures for nonprofits or startups and other cases when a company is not generating revenue) divided by world GDP, and approximate growth rates through 2050 using analyst or internal financial forecasts to derive the Carbon Intensity Reduction Rate.

«The RE100 pledge aligns with other nonprofit groups GM has joined to help scale renewable energy use, including the Corporate Renewable Buyers» Principles, the Business Renewables Center and the Renewable Energy Buyers» Alliance.»

The Global Seed Network is meant to be used by farmers, home gardeners, nonprofit organizations, and the general public, who can connect with other seed savers to trade for uncommon and disease - resistant varieties that are tailored to their soil and climate conditions.

ASES is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the use of solar energy, energy efficiency, and other sustainable technologies in the U.S.

Bill Heinze writes that «The Copyright Royalty Board of the Library of Congress has announced a cost of living adjustment of 4.3 percent in the royalty rates paid by colleges, universities, or other nonprofit educational institutions that are not affiliated with National Public Radio for the use of copyrighted published nondramatic musical compositions in the BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC repertoires.»

Nonprofits simply don't have the resources to hire attorneys, public relations specialists, or graphic designers because most of their resources are used to take care of people, pets, and other underrepresented causes.

FCRA defines a consumer reporting agency as any person which, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly engages in whole or in part in the practice of assembling or evaluating consumer credit information or other information on consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports to third parties, and which uses any means or facility of interstate commerce for the purpose of preparing or furnishing consumer reports.

If your current position lacks opportunities to shine, consider volunteering at a small nonprofit using your true expertise, whether as a board member, website developer, social media marketer, fundraiser, newsletter writer or in any other of the many positions nonprofits have trouble filling.

Her academic and career focus is on how nonprofit and social enterprises can build digital experiences and use other technology to improve their own products and help schools boost social - emotional competencies.

Mediating problems won't always be so easy for kids, but practicing now helps stack the deck in their favor, explained Joan Duffell, executive director of Committee for Children, a Seattle - based nonprofit that developed the Second Step, one of the programs used at Cossitt and dozens of other Chicago - area schools.