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Be Prepared to Deliver Digital Value

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Some leaders prefer to hang back and let others be the guinea pigs. He has built a culture where the staff, the board, and the members are ready with the skills and the tools to succeed in an uncertain future. You may not want to be the first to dive into the newest digital trends. I’ll offer a caveat. Don’t wait too long.

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Cameroonian crypto and savings platform Ejara raises $8M, led by Anthemis and Dragonfly

TechCrunch

Last October, it had 8,000 users from Cameroon, its first market and others including Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, and Senegal. The initiative we launched for women and orphans and girls is to improve their financial literacy and computer skills. Now, it counts over 70,000 users across nine Francophone African countries. .

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

The program helps Vietnamese nonprofits to build staff capacity, apply for grants, and recruit skilled volunteers. The LIN mission is to foster a culture of philanthropy and social responsibility by providing support services to local nonprofits, skilled volunteers, and donors who are committed to building strong communities.

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Worst of Museums for this Decade

Museum 2.0

I see a vast range in skills and knowledge depending on the program, and I see many qualified people who don't go to a museum studies program. . — Lynne Calamia (@LynneCalamia) December 6, 2019 For my part, another challenge with museum studies programs is that there is a great deal of of variety in programs.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

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I sort of saw his participation and undercutting the democracy in my hometown as indicative of what Freeport-McMoRan was doing in Cancer Alley in Louisiana, which I later went and visited and saw their impact there, and in Papua New Guinea, where they have some of the worst mines and human rights abuses that we have documented on file, and I started (..)

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

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They are places outside our daily lives--the Arctic, Papau New Guinea--and are easy, in some ways, to ignore or forget. The same is true for the political and educational challenges threatening science education worldwide. Early in the document, the declaration proclaims, "[Science centers] are safe places for difficult conversations."

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

But the governor became a friend and then I took my skills to the nonprofit sector, and I’ve been executive director, development director, board member, you name it. And I’d love to try them out with you all as my guinea pigs to see what their tool is like and if I like it so I can tell others about them. bloomerang.

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