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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. But a poor web design won’t get anyone on the bad side of the law whereas ignoring those important statements might. Yes, you can get people to put down their phones and pay attention. Is that even possible?

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Help the organization by researching and compiling information on government grants that may be available. This can include large Fortune 500 companies or even local law firms, smaller companies, business-to-business suppliers, or retailers. Set up face-to-face meetings or phone calls to ask contacts to donate.

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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

EveryAction

When you have a goal to meet—like asking a governing body to sign a bill into law, telling a CEO or other stakeholder to change a behavior or policy, or meeting goals around educating decision-makers on your issue area—you know you can’t do it alone. Cast a wide net with texts, emails, phone calls and social posts.

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Nonprofit Risk Management Tips and Resources for Your Event

Qgiv

The National Weather Service offers an app that provides hourly updates and weather alerts directly to your smart phone. Observe federal, state, and local laws. Whether it’s the federal drinking age, maximum occupancy rules, or any other law in place for safety (or legal fundraising), be sure you’re observing them!

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What should governments, universities and companies do? California Passes New Law That Bans Bots From Pretending to Real People: California Gov. More on the new law here. How does machine learning actually work? Why is it dangerous to ignore machine learning? You can watch the YouTube presentation or read the takeaways here.

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What’s up with consumer data privacy?

3rd Sector Labs

The NSA monitoring everything from email to phone calls. For example, consumers by law have access to credit reports used in making financial decisions about the consumer. The topic of consumer data privacy is getting more and more attention in the media and on Capitol Hill. Personal identity theft. People know people.

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Don’t Be Fooled by Abstract Jargon: Internet Governance and ICT Policy

Tech Soup

Most civil society organizations (CSOs) and citizens don’t use high-level jargon such as Internet governance and ICT policy. The 6th Internet Governance Forum will soon bring multiple stakeholders to Kenya to discuss key policy and governance issues. Net neutrality has been enshrined in law in the Netherlands and Chile.