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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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Financial literacy workshops. Tell your financial story. Explain how both documents reflect organizational priorities, goals, and objectives. Don’t limit the possibilities to understanding monthly statements. Be creative and include a variety of options, such as: Providing financial education promotes a culture of learning.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. This week, nearly a year after first beginning to work with Room to Read, we’re proud to be taking part in promoting Literacy Day.

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Understanding Impact Metrics for Your Nonprofit: A Guide

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Impact metrics play a crucial role in defining your nonprofit’s impact story and demonstrating your value to your donors, funders, volunteers, board members, and other key stakeholders. For example, an output metric for a literacy program might be the number of books read by program participants. Why Are Impact Metrics Important?

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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

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The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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#40BetterHours: The Art of Single Tasking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It featured a ten minute video by journalist Manoush Zomorodi sharing some ideas and tips on new digital literacy skills of managing information overload and overwhelmed. The challenge was to focus solely on listening to the video and not multi-task and reflect on the experience. This helps improve memory and synthesis.

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The Information Diet: Not Just A Book, A Movement For Conscious Consumption of Information

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Given he his background as founder of Blue State Digital and working with the Dean Campaign and Sunlight Foundation, he tells the story through the lens of political campaigns and movement building on the social web as well as a personal narrative. To increase digital literacy of our communities with good digital literacy skills.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

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A winning strategy for spreading the word about your organization’s work is getting your nonprofit’s story in the news. . A news story gets your organization in front of a large audience of potential supporters and gives your organization instant credibility. . And, getting your story in the news still carries a lot of weight.

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