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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can read more about the framing leading up the convening in this Learning Brief that synthesizes FSG’s latest thinking on the future of social sector evaluation. ” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. Based on a logic model. Refine a model or make definitive judgment.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. To wit, we in online learning are often in the business of managing transactions. Not financial transactions—those get offloaded to payment gateway.

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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. Here are the definitions: Connectivity Network: This type of network links people to allow them to exchange experience and information as a result of that exchange learn.

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Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards Winners Announced

Amy Sample Ward

The 13 winners were selected from 60 finalists drawn from 1,702 nonprofit taglines submitted to the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards competition. 2009 TAGLINE AWARD WINNERS. It’s definitive, with a powerful economy of words. A model for any organization promoting philanthropy. Arts & Culture: Big Sky.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

When will people learn that to be open, you need to really be open ? This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge.

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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

The Vera Institute (2015) offers this definition of social impact bonds: “In a social impact bond, private investors fund an intervention through an intermediary organization—and the government repays the funder only if the program achieves certain goals, which are specified at the outset of the initiative and assessed by an independent evaluator.”.

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Technology providers and Linux

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Now, there are many more, and traditional Windows shops are beginning to either add staff who know Linux, or learn it themselves. Sometimes it does matter, both to an organization that might use that vendor, and to the vendor themselves in terms of viability of their business model. But there still isn’t a lot out there.

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