Month: March 2017

How Accessible Is Your Website?

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Did you know that a routine boilerplate included in many grant agreements (especially those from government sources) stipulates the receiving organization agrees that their website complies to accessibility standards? How confident are you that your website meets WCAG 2.0 standards? Right. That’s what I thought. Fortunately, there are some super easy tools you can use that are free of charge to check and I wrote an article for ArtsHacker.com today that …

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Are You Aware Of The Women Composer Database Project?

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On 3/16/2012, composer and arts administrator Rob Deemer wrote an article for NewMusicBox that included a list of women composers. His motivation was rooted in discussions from that time about women composers and since then, that simple list has grown into a full-fledged database project. I contacted Deemer to learn more about how the project started and where it’s going. “In my original NMBx article, I wrote ‘Having been the positions …

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To Save The NEA And NEH, Perhaps Stakeholders Should Crowdsource ‘Fox & Friends’ Sponsored Content

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With all the genuine concern in the wake of the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), perhaps political action isn’t the best option. Instead, the NEA and NEH could be saved if we crowdsource a bribe sponsored content on the Fox News talk program Fox & Friends. An article by Jenna Johnson in the 3/7/2017 edition of The …

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If Your Group Is Enrolled In PayPal’s Charitable Giving Fund, You Need To Know About This Class Action Lawsuit

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The 3/1/2017 edition of Nonprofit Quarterly published an article by Michael Wyland that examines a class action lawsuit “alleging that PayPal’s Charitable Giving Fund misrepresented its operations and its relationships with most U.S. nonprofit organizations and took donors’ gifts intended for specific charities and directed them without consent to charities of PayPal’s choice.” According to the suit, PayPal solicits potential donors to contribute but haven’t been telling them that donations would …

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If Only Every Complex Topic Could Be Explained This Way

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Show of hands: your IT or web provider is telling about some issue or another and even though you’re nodding away in agreement you have zero clue what s/he is talking about. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if every tech issue could be put into terms you can easily wrap your head around? For example, the topic of why installing theme and plugin updates on an open source website publishing platform (WordPress, …

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