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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. Financial literacy workshops. Don’t Forget Policies and Procedures There’s more to oversight than reading the financial statements. Be sure to review important policies and procedures. Presentations from experts.

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Digital Transformation for Government Agencies

Forum One

Digital transformation or modernization for government agencies is about using new technologies to effectively change an agency’s ability to engage audiences and achieve its mission. Common challenges in government digital transformation pursuits include overlapping or redundant solutions and processes and siloed teams and communications.

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Forum One Honored With 11 Vega Awards

Forum One

Forum One’s 11 awards included two platinum, five gold, and four silver awards across focus areas, including cultural institutions, health and wellness, environmental awareness, and government. These awards honored Forum One’s work in building websites, digital tools, and virtual experiences for our clients.

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Dilbert’s Social Media Policy and Reflections from Palo Alto Community Fund Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The participants represented a wide range of nonprofits from all-volunteer groups to larger institutions. During the part 1, there was an interesting discussion and insights shared by a participant from the City of Palo Alto as their process of developing a social media policy. What’s the tone of your social media policy?

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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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They are activities that are frequently governed and controlled by policies and procedures, such as: Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin conversations about risk. Both directors and employees should know which policies the organization has in place and how they are enforced.

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Does Your Organizational Already Have a Policy for Professional Conduct?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My YMCA colleague posed for this photo on purpose to illustrate a point about professional conduct and social media policies. As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor to facilitate training workshops at grantee’s conference. Summer learning-workshop-2.

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Social Media and Governance: Reflections from BoardSource

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance. What type of policy is needed related to me having contact with them on FB? Board source. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.