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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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That’s a question every association CEO should be able to answer. Allow plenty of time on the agenda for the financial staff to explain when and how statements will be available, review banking, investment, and auditing arrangements, and answer questions. Financial literacy workshops. Be sure to allow time for questions.

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Membership Retention Rate: How Associations Can Retain More Members

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To see how this is working for you, ask questions about your own strategies. For example, consider an organization for educators focused on improving literacy rates. One proven method of addressing literacy—especially in children with learning challenges—is approaching reading as a science. How are you engaging your members?

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How to Make Analytics a Priority – Finally!

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Ask your colleagues questions. Use softer, more open-ended questions to get detailed information that you will capture in writing for your plan. What questions do you want answers to from data? Process – If you have a question, what is the process to get your answers? Be sure to ask stakeholders in different departments.

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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

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If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask. Generative AIs have the power to transform education.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

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Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. This is important here in the U.S.,

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The Accounting Basics Every Nonprofit Team Member Should Know

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Financial literacy is an area where “fake until you make it” doesn’t apply. This blog will be a great place to start, but if you find yourself praying no one asks you questions about the financials in your next board meeting, you may want to check out our Nonprofit Accounting Essentials course in partnership with The Charity CFO. .

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Human Rights at the Benetech Board Meeting

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Last quarter Betsy Beaumon presented the future of our Literacy program including Bookshare. Patrick Ball, our Chief Scientist and VP of the Human Rights Program, spent a couple of hours with our board talking about the big strategic questions for the HRP. But this week, human rights was front and center.

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