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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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The matrix is a diagram that helps the board outline its current characteristics, pinpoints gaps in demographics or talent, and identifies what skills are needed in the future. Preparing this document is a learning experience. These are a few of the documents that can be included in online welcome handbooks: Bylaws.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

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In fact, his reading skills are above average and he is on track to be an honor roll student. To date, more than one thousand software professionals have signed up to lend their time and skills to SocialCoding4Good’s nonprofit project partners, and we are thrilled to support this growing contributor community with new leadership.

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Are You Passionate about Technology and Social Good? Benetech Needs You!

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You are the leader we are looking for if you see the combination of social good and businesslike management as the answer to pressing problems throughout the world. As one of our partners from an LGBT group in Uganda noted last year, “If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.” You’ve come to the right place: Benetech.

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How to Find and Work with a Nonprofit Virtual Assistant

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It may make sense to hire someone to give you that help, especially if that person has the skills you need and can work remotely. But through shared documents and calendars via cloud-based platforms, the Executive Director of the horse rescue has the extra help they need to get everything done. You can definitely find a VA to do those.

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The AI Writing Prompt Formula and Prompt Ideas

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Press Releases : AI writers can help nonprofits create attention-grabbing press releases that generate media coverage and raise awareness of their cause. This involves creating a sense of urgency and making the problem feel more significant, pressing, and frustrating.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

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Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Write technical descriptions of HRP methods and projects at many levels of detail for academic publications, white papers, grant applications, grant reports, and internal documentation.

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Nonprofit Board Member Onboarding: 12 Things to Cover

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While you’re discussing “why are you here,” discuss what skills they are expected to bring to the board. These may be professional skills, a deep interest in your mission, personal or professional connections, or some combination of these. You should introduce them to any policy documents, such as conflict of interest policies.