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Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance 

Candid

Alternatively, when boards take a more collaborative approach to these duties, working together with staff, they can help advance the organization’s mission and vision. In some organizations, a top-down hierarchical structure dominates, with board members exerting control over decision-making processes and stifling innovation among staff.

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Four Nonprofit Web Accessibility Best Practices for 2022

sgEngage

Because of the many benefits of accessibility, it’s worthwhile to evaluate your nonprofit’s website against the official standards for nonprofit website accessibility. Understandable: Your website content should be structured in a way that’s easy to understand, in a logical and chronological order. Clean up forms.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent). Alternative Supports (<1 percent). Miscellaneous (3 percent). Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent). How Did You Hear of Us (<1 percent).

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If technical expertise is needed to scope an AI project, reach out to organizations or individuals with that expertise to pressure test whether there is a faster, simpler, cheaper alternative. . Identify owned datasets that can be safely open-sourced or shared through data governance structures such as whitelists and data trusts. .

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Export Your Universal Analytics Data Before It’s Too Late

Forum One

They can also provide a platform for ETL processes: in other words, Extracting data from the systems where it is collected, Transforming, cleaning, or otherwise manipulating it into a more usable structure, and then Loading it directly to business intelligence tools or data warehouses including BigQuery.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

There has been some discussion about for-profit alternatives to the traditional nonprofit model, such as “B” (for benefit) and “L3C” (Low-profit Limited Liability Company) corporations, which combine low profits with a social mission. SIBs provide an alternative to traditional philanthropy, government contracts, and low profit corporations.

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How Can Member-Based Nonprofits Use Lean Innovation to Remain Relevant?

ASU Lodestar Center

According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, “nonprofit leaders must focus more attention on innovation, measuring the impact of their efforts, and creating funding structures that encourage risk taking, according to a report from Independent Sector." They are falling behind in the race for relevance.

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