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Use This Sample Letter With Your Board To Boost Year-End Giving

Bloomerang

Sending this sample letter is in that vein. Here’s a sample letter to boost year-end giving Date Subject: Your Immediate Action Requested to Boost Year-End Giving Dear <Insert Board members names>: As we draw closer to Dec. Please let us know. That, too, was a good step because it created buy-in.

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7 Guiding Principles for a JDEI Policy That Isn’t Just Hot Air. Plus, a Free Sample Policy!

Blue Avocado

For those who have spent the better part of their careers working on equity issues, recent events have been wrenching–and cause for hope: the Black Lives Matter movement is finally entering the mainstream. Plus, a Free Sample Policy! There […]. There […]. appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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Board Assessments After the Pandemic, with Sample Management Questions

Blue Avocado

The post Board Assessments After the Pandemic, with Sample Management Questions appeared first on Blue Avocado. To test your boards critical performance or to put in place practices and strategies for a healthy and reenergized board, the best place to start is with a […].

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Knitting samples for Knitting off the Axis

Judi Sohn

In late 2009 I knit a pattern from the Fall 2009 issue of Knitscene magazine. He then asked me if I had ever done any sample knitting. Can I make a career out of knitting samples for designers? As everything else I knit, I logged it in Ravelry. Mathew sent me the correction. I had not, but I expressed willingness to try.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Start Using AI in 2024

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Start by identifying a specific issue that AI could help solve, implement a solution, experiment, iterate and grow from there. This example illustrates the potential of AI to uncover unique solutions and opportunities within your nonprofit, even in unexpected ways.

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Unlocking change: Free access to Candid’s nonprofit resources

Candid

Industry newsletters: Stay informed about the ever-changing philanthropic landscape through updates from Philanthropy News Digest , Issue Lab , and Candid. Free fundraising resources Finding your most likely funders can be challenging, especially when only ~10% of U.S. foundations have websites.

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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