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Does Your Nonprofit Need Some Data Therapy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the themes that came up is the gap in skills of citizens and nonprofits and the use of data. It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem.

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy. My favorite housekeeping skill is freezing panes. Don’t underestimate the power of high school statistics. Third, go easy on yourself.

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Microsoft's YouthSpark Initiative Seeks to Close the Opportunity Divide

Tech Soup

Although the challenges differ by region, the outcome is the same everywhere: young people are simply not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's workforce. Through the program, the native San Franciscan learned valuable business skills, received tech training, and made job connections. More Resources.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

We welcome your comments and feedback. Therefore, they prefer to hire experienced professionals—or those who have training in nonprofit leadership and management skills. We too dersire more instruction on financial literacy. We welcome your input and feedback. ^ [1] Wing, K.

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. The most important listening literacy skills are. Qui Diaz, The Big Dig Beth Kanter, Listening Literacy Skills 3. tags: listening socialmedia ).

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4 Steps Nonprofits Can Take to Keep Data Private

Tech Soup

" If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum. Over the last few years, TechSoup has been curating resources to help nonprofits and public libraries teach online security and privacy skills to their communities. spanhidden.

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How a Few Tiny Horses Bucked the Facebook Algorithm

Tech Soup

Gentle Carousel also has a literacy program called Reading Is Magic that brings the horses into schools, libraries, and at-risk youth programs. The photo of Faith with Magic along with her story has 5,302 likes, 1,007 shares, and 1,948 comments as of this writing. Ask for Comments or Have a Call to Action. " This is genius!