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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

This practice makes it harder, if not impossible, for us to adequately advocate for diverse communities and demonstrate their unique needs. Census suggests that Asian Americans have a median household income of $108,700—significantly higher than the national median of $75,580. For example, aggregated data from the U.S.

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4 Best Professional Development Practices for Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

Explore these four best practices when creating great professional development programs: . Make sure it’s within the price range so you can sponsor as many as who want to participate in the program (or ask to see if there’s a group rate). . Understand why development is important. . Leverage nonprofit-specific development resources. .

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March Cause Awareness: Women’s History Month

Qgiv

By 1981, the celebration had spread far and wide, enough that President Jimmy Carter officially made the week of March 8th, 1980 National Women’s History Week. Every year, the National Women’s History Alliance selects a yearly theme to focus on for the month. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month.”

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Do Capacity Building Programs Help Nonprofits Achieve Better Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations. The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment.

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Grow Your Community #NPTechChat: Challenges, Opportunities

Tech Soup

Join @NTENorg , @TechSoup , @plus_socialgood , and the United Nations Foundation for a critical conversation on effective community engagement. What are the best practices to harness influencers as your online community changes? Join us as we go around the globe. This chat will start on February 2, 2016 at 7:00 a.m. plus_socialgood.

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Future of Volunteering from the Volunteer Canada Perspective

Connection Cafe

From our meetings with non-profits and national surveys, there is broad variation in how non-profits organizations are faring, but we can generalize them into three buckets. Will these new practices be adopted even when we are an open society again? What is the current situation for non-profits? If so, why? I certainly hope so!

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. My point is that copyright exceptions enable the ebook to deliver far more social benefit than would be practical in an earlier era.