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What ‘Star Trek’ Can Teach Us About Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

Some nonprofits act like they exist outside the market economy, but a lesson from "Star Trek" can help your nonprofit embrace reality.

Teach 278
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JVIB 2012 Special Issue on Technology: Today's Game Changer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm very excited to be a guest editor with the awesome Donna McNear on next year's special technology issue of the Journal of Vision Impairment and Blindness. Help us make this a terrific issue! Of course, this is a peer reviewed journal and being guest editors doesn't give us the power to decide what does and doesn't get published.

Issue 198
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Healthy Fear, Healthy Habit: Teaching Privacy to New Internet Users

Tech Soup

Simple Steps for Teaching Privacy. Although privacy issues can be a challenge to teach, Scott recommends a few simple steps for digital literacy educators: Provide basic privacy instruction. Find out what Internet services patrons are using so you can better explain what privacy issues might affect them. spanhidden.

Teach 68
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Data-Driven Nonprofits: Issue 7 of NTEN:Change is Live!

NTEN

Whether you call it "data-driven", "data-informed", "evidence-based", or something else, making smarter decisions and strategies for your organization is something every nonprofit leader strives for—and what the latest issue of NTEN:Change is all about.

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How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What lies beneath a request for technology capacity or skill building or the rush to adopt the newest social or mobile tool? Are there other more pressing organizational issues that should be addressed first such as poor program quality or lack of a overall communications strategy or leadership issues. What you think?

Teach 108
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The End of Expertise and How Associations Must Adapt

The MatrixFiles

Higher education and the media have been hard hit with trust issues. Execs agreed on the importance of educating members about trust issues in their field. One exec expressed interest in resources to share with our members to teach them how to have conversations about controversial topics. Track trends in your industry.

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Innovating for Dramatically More Scale and Social Impact

Top Nonprofits

On so many vital social issues, we’re either seeing painfully slow progress or problems that are actually getting worse. His clients have included Teach For America, The Nature Conservancy, SaverLife, Congreso de Latinos Unidos, the Open Society Foundations, and the Movement For Black Lives.

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