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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

As the saying goes, “knowledge is power.” Candid’s Issue Lab is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing social sector knowledge. This evaluation looks at one such program, Supporting Education and Employment Development (SEED). Do you know of a resource Candid’s Issue Lab is missing?

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Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance 

Candid

For instance, when boards overly prioritize routine tasks like policy development and operational management, they risk missing opportunities for innovation and could fail to address emerging challenges with a holistic perspective. Evaluation of partnership: Regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the board-staff relationship.

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report provides detail about the opportunities and challenges and offers some next steps for social good organizations, technology companies, and policy makers. . This information can help set the stage for potential partnerships and field-wide sharing of knowledge. The key findings in the report are listed below.

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Creating a Culture of Continuous Learning

Gyrus

Continuous learning is an established persistent learning process, designed for bolstering the knowledge and skills of your workforce over time, and presents itself in many forms. Establishing a formal policy of Continuous Learning. Use this as an opportunity for knowledge transfer.

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Run a Productive, Fun Nonprofit Board Meeting

Get Fully Funded

If your by-laws do NOT include these things, you and your Board need to make this a priority to create these policies and amend your by-laws as soon as possible. In the absence of knowledge of what the right thing is, your Board is probably swinging in the dark because they truly don’t know what is expected of them. Brainstorm.

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Sectorness: What does "nonprofit" do for us?

ASU Lodestar Center

This usage should make us stop and consider whether a smattering of policy makers, scholars, and practitioners have introduced an idea that has meaning only to them, resulting in a grand con on the range of individual industries and activities that fit a vague notion of "public good." So, sector is important for policy advocacy.

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Research Friday: Social Impact Bonds: A New Tool for Scaling Impact

ASU Lodestar Center

Alexis de Tocqueville, a French early nineteenth century political thinker and scholar known for his book Democracy in America , often pondered questions of societal well-being, or social policy. SIBs provide an alternative to traditional philanthropy, government contracts, and low profit corporations. The Role of Evaluation.

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