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Shifting power: How the Ford Foundation’s DEI commitment is transforming culture and impact 

Candid

In 2014, the Ford Foundation refined its mission to focus on disrupting inequality by addressing its root causes rather than simply its symptoms. Shifting culture: A commitment to inclusive policies and practices benefits all staff While we’re proud of this progress, we know the numbers only tell one side of the story.

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TechSoup’s Mobile Impact Webinar Series 2014

Tech Soup

Welcome to TechSoup’s Mobile Impact Webinar Series 2014. Our first webinar in this series, which took place on May 8, 2014, was called Mobile Impact 101: Taking Your Cause Mobile. I’ll recap it for you and also tell you about the upcoming ones that I suspect you’ll find pretty darn useful. Resources.

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Trusting community organizers to build a multiracial democracy

Candid

It requires a long-term strategy so that an ecosystem of organizations—with specialists in communications, legal support, and policy research—can work together to build a broad base of support. A number of funders, including The California Endowment, Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr.

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Want Changes to Federal Grants? How to Make Your Voice Heard

ProposalPRO

As Heather Smith described the process in Grist (2014), “Public comment is the place where the 400-page environmental analysis compiled by the Sierra Club sits next to the two-sentence statement typed in by a busy suburbanite.” Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School. Final rules carry the weight of law.

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Untangling the New Uniform Grant Guidance

RBW Strategy

Since the original Uniform Grant Guidance was issued in 2014, federal grant recipients, subrecipients, and contractors have grumbled about the confusing jargon, lack of clarity, and general “squishiness” about some of the guidance’s language and how it applies to all recipients of federal funding. What is OMB’s Intended Outcome?

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New to TechSoup: Skype Credit and Subscriptions

Tech Soup

Note that you must apply Skype Credit vouchers or activate Skype subscriptions made available through this offer before December 1, 2014. $20 A fair usage policy applies.) Skype has made two donations available to eligible organizations. and 7 other countries and calls only to landlines in 63 countries.

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10 Facts You Need To Know About Data Breaches

Tech Soup

The year 2014 was dubbed "year of the data breach." According to the Ponemon Institute , 43 percent of companies experienced a data breach in 2014. According to the Ponemon Institute , 43 percent of companies experienced a data breach in 2014. Suffering a breach is no longer a question of if, but when. spanhidden.