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

[All posts](https://www.vikingimpact.com/blog)[Funding Decoded 1](https://www.vikingimpact.com/blog/category/funding-decoded)[Proof of Impact 3](https://www.vikingimpact.com/blog/category/proof-of-impact)[Boards That Lead 2](https://www.vikingimpact.com/blog/category/boards-that-lead)[AI in the Workforce System 1](https://www.vikingimpact.com/blog/category/ai-in-the-workforce-system)
[AI in the Workforce System

### Before You Let AI Near Your Case Files: Five Questions for Workforce Programs

Five governance questions workforce programs should answer before AI touches participant records, eligibility decisions, or case...May 12, 2026](https://www.vikingimpact.com/blog/ai-case-files-five-questions)[Funding Decoded

### Is This Federal Grant Worth the Lift? A Go/No-Go Checklist for Nonprofits

Score any federal grant on nine factors, from fit and match to indirect costs, reporting and cash flow, before your team writes a...November 11, 2025](https://www.vikingimpact.com/blog/federal-grant-go-no-go-checklist)[Boards That Lead

### 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)[Boards That Lead

### 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)[Proof of Impact

### 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)[Proof of Impact

### 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)[Proof of Impact

### 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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