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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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Leading with Accountability: What Accountability Strategies are Critical to Foster Nonprofit Donor Support?

ASU Lodestar Center

Organizational transparency, the disclosure of operational, financial, and decision-making information, remains a significant factor in the formation of the public’s trust in an organization’s mission and intent. Performance evaluations serve as vehicles to message organizational mission realization and impact. Donor Communication.

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. And, I also need to make my information tracking a bit more systematic.

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

They are setting the stage for transparent communication when evaluating compatibility and complementary “value exchange between partners” are in effect. Nonprofits whose organizational cultures encourage outreach and relationship building are already laying the foundational groundwork of high-performing collaboration.

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The 2009 IT Staffing & Spending Report Is Now Available for Download

NTEN

It gives us a good look at the state of nonprofit staffing, and helps us provide organizations with information to help evaluate the state of their IT spending. > To help them cast an analytical eye on technology decisions, NTEN and The NonProfit Times came together to create the Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey.

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How Nonprofits Can Engage Volunteers in Advocacy

ASU Lodestar Center

In addition, according to Eisner (2009), nonprofit leaders are not taking the time to develop or support volunteer talent adequately, resulting in a weak or bland experience that leads to an unmotivated volunteer who has little reason to return. 2009) The new volunteer workforce, Stanford, Social, Innovation Review Retrieved from [link].

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly.