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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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A director who can’t read your balance sheet, can’t be a great leader. When directors understand their role in stewarding and growing resources, keeping track of that progress becomes a lot more interesting. Outline Responsibilities Don’t assume that prospective directors understand the depth of their commitment.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

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A bus driver or cleaning staff might need only a few of these skills, whereas a development director might need all these and many more skills. When assessing the skills of technical staff, such as an IT director or a database administrator, you might be tempted to narrow your focus to only technical skills, which would be a mistake.

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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

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But capabilities and potential of AI are complex; business leaders must think carefully about the best role for these new technologies in their future strategy. Much of the public discourse currently revolves around natural language models, and you’ve probably read commentary positing that ChatGPT offers a solution to virtually every problem.

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Research Friday: Financial literacy: understanding money for today’s activities and tomorrow’s security

ASU Lodestar Center

You serve on a nonprofit board of directors. And your role (board or staff) determines how you contribute to the overall security of the nonprofit with which you are affiliated. 10 Clearly, the role of the audit committee is enhanced with the increased focus on good governance and fiscal responsibility.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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How to Engage Employees in National (Virtual) Volunteer Month

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Bose’ Akadiri , Program Manager, Employee Volunteerism at Salesforce, and Cécile Poyet, Director, Product Marketing, Philanthropy Cloud at Salesforce.org. Simbi’s virtual reading platform enables global literacy through the power of narration, creation, translation, and donation. This isn’t your usual read-a-thon! .

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Some Data Therapy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. According to the blog post: “Data and reports alone do not produce change,” said Charlotte Kahn, Senior Director of the Boston Indicators Project.

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