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The kids are not alright. Here’s how philanthropy can help  

Candid

The pandemic’s impact on chronic absence Chronic absence— missing at least 10% of school days in one academic year—is a significant driver of the low literacy and numeracy skills reflected in the KIDS COUNT data. Philanthropy can invest in practical solutions to improve attendance and well-being.

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Trust-Based Philanthropy: “Walking the Talk” Towards Long-Term Financial Wellness

sgEngage

Funders providing these types of gifts have a responsibility to trust their grantees to do what’s best for the organization while also supporting them with financial literacy. The Trust Based Philanthropy Project is a five-year funder initiative that addresses inherent power imbalances between foundations and nonprofits.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

First, I’ll cover our biggest fundraising effort of the year: individual philanthropy is crucial to us; it’s the portion that makes 10X impact possible! In fact, his reading skills are above average and he is on track to be an honor roll student. In this update, I’m delighted to be able to share Benetech’s latest efforts to do both.

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

TechCrunch

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. ” The formerly incarcerated community faces many challenges, including a lack of digital skills. For example, U.S.

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Member Round Up: A busy September with new research, a cure for website obesity, and world literacy day

NTEN

No matter where you are, there''s still a week left for you to hone your social media skills during Social Media September. Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy ''s upcoming webinar, Bringing Entrepreneurial Skills into Grantmaking Practices , will explore ways in which you can employ the skills and practices used by social entrepreneurs.

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What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested. If you’ve not seen The Center for Effective Philanthropy survey of September, 2012, it sets up the challenge pretty clearly. In Elizabeth Boris’s words “…they are missing in action.”.

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Research Friday: Financial literacy: understanding money for today’s activities and tomorrow’s security

ASU Lodestar Center

When those who are responsible for an organization's overall fiscal management responded to a study by The Moody Foundation, it was found that nonprofits need to "fortify their financial skills to better forecast future needs, navigate economic instability, and manage risk." The Moody’s Foundation, 2011. 22. ^ [4] Ibid. Pg 18. ^ [5] Ibid.