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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

The good news is that digital literacy is becoming part of lesson plans for K-12 students in public schools. Unfortunately, like public libraries, public schools are also constrained by tightened budgets and smaller staffs and can't always provide the individual attention that some students require. The Role of Schools.

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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

The blurring lines between government, nonprofit and for-profit sectors have led to innovative vehicles to fund interventions that address society’s most intractable problems. They are an evolution of the traditional contract partnerships between nonprofits and government. As Clara Miller (2015), president of the H. and Lombard, A.

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Research Friday: Human Capital Performance Bonds. What are they? How do they work?

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Municipal bonds (munis) are debt obligations issued by government entities. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D.

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Is your board making the grade – How to improve board performance

BoardAssist

BoardSource, the country’s leading nonprofit governance consultants, provides some great advice in this week’s guest post. In my community, the public schools dismissed their students for the summer last week, which means that some parents are spending this week contemplating what to do about Junior’s report card.

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Comprehensive Guide To Year-End Giving

CauseVox

The annual 24-hour giving day, created to counter the retail-heavy push that begins with Black Friday, has thousands of nonprofits, businesses, city governments, and other institutions participating in a drive to highlight generosity and partnership for good. Because of that, students know it’s ok to be different.

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Congratulations to Nonprofit Campaigners on Three Recent Victories - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The terrific news is that the U.S.

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Need a New Year Recharge? Attend These Nonprofit Conferences in 2024

Allegiance Group

These tracks are based on Leadership, Relationship, and Stewardship, and topics include Board Governance, Resource Development, and Legal & Risk Management. Keynote presentations, workshops, roundtable sessions, and interactive forums will cover a variety of topics across nine training tracks.