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Make Your Nonprofit Board Meetings Magical

BoardAssist

A realistic agenda, focused on substantive issues. Your chair and ED must do a delicate dance around creating a decision-based agenda, one that keeps the meeting focused on discussion and voting around issues that require board verdicts. Take any regular group meetings that have gone smoothly in your life. Prompt start and end times.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 15th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Jan 24 - 25.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. The software applications WordQ + SpeakQ provide writing assistance and speech recognition help for people with disabilities, new language learners, and those who are learning literacy.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"As a blogger, one issue is 'who is reading?' The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. "We know very little about the learning that is happening outside of classrooms."

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Issues: What is our assurance of quality of the game? MacArthur Foundation.

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52 Nonprofit Event Ideas That People Will Love

Neon CRM

In this image, a group of adults sit in a classroom watching a teacher’s presentation. Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training.

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