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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round

EveryAction

Make the most of these periods by focusing on organizing efforts, building relationships with supporters, decentralizing decision-making structures, and building power among supporters to take action and mobilize swiftly when immediate challenges arise. In calmer periods, spinning the wheels can be just as detrimental.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? So the evaluator has to consider if they are going to: Teach. Has the organization embraced policies, resources and a culture that supports evaluation? What level of interest and incentives to learn and implement evaluation are present? Create a written plan.

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Applying DEI Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Top Nonprofits

Implementing policies and prioritizing DEI best practices will help you start seeing a difference in your own organization. Ultimately, you want to be sure you’re taking action that will structurally change the organization, an action that can only be taken from the top down. Wanting it isn’t enough. Lead From the Top.

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

Amy Sample Ward

That’s teaching. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. There used to be a focus on setting high levels for evidence in evidenced based policy making. People and policy is often first influenced by compelling stories. That said, there are structures within government that can handle risk.

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

NTEN

That's teaching. Fundamentally that's what teaching should be. There used to be a focus on setting high levels for evidence in evidenced based policy making. People and policy are often first influenced by compelling stories. That said, there are structures within government that can handle risk.

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Five tips for software systems training

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Eventually, we found that traditional classroom training was rarely the solution. Information Systems training needs to focus more on organizational policy and business practices than on technology. It's easy to teach someone how to issue an invoice. We've led some awful sessions and some great ones. But who is the customer?

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The agenda didn't have a detailed description, so I thought this might be a case study along the lines of how to influence a UA policy similiar to this one about Trinidad. The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills.

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