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Build a Board for the Digital Future

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Leaders and decision-makers should reflect those changes. You might ask where technology fits into this picture. If you asked me to name the most important requirement, I would say it’s the enthusiasm to learn—to keep growing despite challenges and to devour knowledge for its own sake. It’s not just a question of demographics.

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Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days

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Bahia Ramos wrote this post as part of a learning culmination process where we reflected on the design and what was learned as we moved into another round of giving days. Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days. The post was also published on the Knight Foundation blog here. million , once the dust settled).

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Want To Be a Leader? Get to Know Yourself

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Although understanding strengths and weaknesses is important, it’s not the whole picture. Make time for reflection. Or that you secretly hate networking but force yourself to show up because that’s what leaders do. Organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich identifies two categories of self-awareness. The first.

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Helpful Ways to Measure and Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Performance

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They measure non-financial or financial criteria that reflect the efficacy of an organization, program, or initiative. Metrics for outcomes should include all measures that reflect organizational performance. Quantifying the impact and success of services and programs can be challenging, but it’s essential.

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Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Documentation of Session.

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One Minute Mentoring

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In what is about a one- to two-hour read, you'll gain knowledge and easy-to-use tools for how to find and leverage mentoring relationships. The mission statement should reflect this. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals. The book presents a fictional parable about the power of finding, or being, a mentor.

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Ranking above the rest: The top 10 most-read Candid blogs in 2023

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We hope you enjoy rediscovering and reflecting on the 10 most-read Candid blogs of 2023. In this first blog in a three-part series, they expound on the findings, including an anticipated decrease in foundation funding and how inflation factors into the picture. As 2023 concludes, we’ve put our twist on this yearly tradition.

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