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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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If you’ve paired new members with a mentor, make sure financial topics are included in their post-orientation meetings. Financial literacy workshops. Bring that connection to life. Don’t try to cover everything in one meeting. Describe the board development programs that will be available in the future.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change.

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Three reasons kids need digital literacy and citizenship education — and three ways to provide it – Guest Post by Emily Esch. Three tips for teaching digital literacy and citizenship: Start with a clear vision.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . New Earth Foundation “seeks to fund innovative projects that enhance life on our planet and brighten the future, furthering peace.” . Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: US.

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Robin Seaman, Agent of Inclusion

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

On February 16th in Los Altos, California, I shared these thoughts on Robin Seaman’s impact on the world with her family and friends at her Celebration of Life. The sister, the aunt, the friend, the mentor. For more on Robin's life, you can read the Publishers Weekly article. The shining bright spot in our day.

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Social Media Basic Literacy Skills In the Nonprofit Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Pew Internet and America Life Project: " Networked Workers " Study. Michele Martin and Tony Karer have been blogging at the Work Literacy blog for several months now. The topics they look at are what I might call social media literacy skills. Greg Sterling at the excellent blog SearchEngineLand.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

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Providing a donation with the date, amount, organization name, and tax identification number clearly identifiable, you make the donor’s life easier. These seven children are receiving a quality education, three meals a day, mentoring, and medical care. Everyone wants their tax preparation to go smoothly. And your gift made it happen.