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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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But it should be reinforced in person during the orientation for new members and in the documentation they receive. Meeting new colleagues is easier when someone facilitates introductions. Financial literacy workshops. Explain how both documents reflect organizational priorities, goals, and objectives.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

" Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. For example, in post-earthquake Haiti, Dd trained and empowered local women to track and document incidents of gender-based violence.

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Employee Recruitment and Retention: 4 Engagement Tips

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You take them through the entire training and onboarding process consisting of one-on-one coaching and tons of documents and paperwork. Use talent management software to track performance data and facilitate your employees’ progress. Imagine this: You go through the expensive process of recruiting new employees.

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Youth Connection Session at Games 4 Change Conference

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Katie Salen Parsons (She co-wrote the book Rules of Play ) We're facilitating a process of games versus making games. Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Gaming is literacy. How can we facilitate change? Their programs have been well documented and evaluated and all is available online. Important to test.

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Leading the Participant

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As Mira explained: The goal is for students to experience presidential decision making, and then debrief, discuss, and share, utilizing historical and civic literacy skills. And the intention was for the facilitator to point out either during the experience itself or during the debrief that there are a lot of different choices.

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5 Things Oakland Taught Me about Civic Hacking

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For example, a "voting tools" session facilitated by WeVote generated discussion among participants on the barriers to voting and how to reduce them. PDFs are great for preserving the final format of a document, but they are nearly useless for any kind of robust analysis. Is your city or town doing anything with open data?

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