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Practical guidance on workforce policy, funding, data, and AI for boards, nonprofits, and public agencies.

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### Who Speaks for Workforce? This Month, it's You!

Now is the time for workforce advocacy. September is Workforce Development Month, but uncertainty looms. The House has proposed cutting the FY26 workforce budget by...September 15, 2025](https://www.vikingimpact.com/blog/workforce-advocacy-sept2025)[Funding and policy

### The Talent Strategy Playbook: 5 Priorities for Workforce Boards

Discover the top five priorities workforce boards should prepare for under the federal talent strategy, including employer-led training, tougher accountability,...August 28, 2025](https://www.vikingimpact.com/blog/talentstrategy-wdb)[Data and evaluation

### From Paperwork to Performance: Four Ways to make WIOA work

Learn four ways WIOA programs can stay compliant and impactful—streamline eligibility, boost training, and turn paperwork into...June 30, 2025](https://www.vikingimpact.com/blog/wioa-compliance-and-impact)[Data and evaluation

### Using Data and Evaluation to Strengthen Resilience, Navigate Change, and Build Power

Using Data to Strengthen Nonprofit Resilience & Impact: Is your nonprofit’s data working for you—or just for funders? In times of change, strategic data use can...March 1, 2025](https://www.vikingimpact.com/blog/rightevaluation)[Point of view

### From Stuck to Soaring: Four challenges that impede sustainable impact

Over 15 years, I’ve seen nonprofits and agencies hit the same roadblocks: plans that falter, complex funding hurdles, equity goals that stall, and untold impact stories....January 1, 2025](https://www.vikingimpact.com/blog/4-challenges)

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