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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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And, in the current volatile environment, you need the best governance you can get. Meeting new colleagues is easier when someone facilitates introductions. Financial literacy workshops. A director who can’t read your balance sheet, can’t be a great leader. Introduce Key Players Introduce key financial players.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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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. Our current model mainly depends on government and foundation support enabling us to provide free library services to members. We can do better!

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

" Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. Digital citizenship: In the final stage, communities can use these tools and knowledge to work with governments and affect policy.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? Emphasis is on digital literacy. Translate what gamers do into the language of "normal traditional education" and out of school time learning? Looking at how to be less of training but more on learning. We need metrics! Microsoft Corporation.

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5 Things Oakland Taught Me about Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

It's not just technologists or data experts, but also community members, activists, and government officials. For example, a "voting tools" session facilitated by WeVote generated discussion among participants on the barriers to voting and how to reduce them. be involved in civic hacking.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

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She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. So, obviously, going to be a really great presenter for you. What do you believe would be the impact?

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