ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. “I This kind of phenomenon can be seen in a 2011 joint report from Social Finance, Inc. The Role of Evaluation.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

[Note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. This person will take the helm on laying out tasks in a sequence, informing other staff of their roles and assignments, and providing assistance to people as they complete their parts of the evaluation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

NTEN – Here's a great run-down from Amy Luckey of the process to use in exploring and evaluating your organization's impact. .’ I say everybody can be great because everybody can Twive!”" ”" What Are We Accomplishing and How Do We Know?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Flickr photo by leighblackall By the end of 2011, NTEN will have produced over 100 educational webinars and 3 in-person local events, with many more in 2012. This position will be critical to adding a higher level of quality and evaluation to NTEN’s various educational offerings. The NTC is just 146 days away.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 8, 2013

It was released in 2011 and hasn’t appeared to get a lot of love since. We spoke to many of our clients and evaluated how batches are entered in many different applications, in and out of Salesforce. Now you can run reports based on batch entries and export what you need for reconciliation.

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Care2

APRIL 9, 2014

The report, which analyzed data from 53 nonprofits, over 2.1 This information will be a great place to begin evaluating your own online progress. Check out the email list growth over the last few years of different sized nonprofits (orange: 2011, yellow: 2012, and blue: 2013) -. billion email messages, 5.6

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The survey reported that more than 80% of nonprofit leaders say “nonprofits should demonstrate the effectiveness of their work by using performance measures,” and yet 71% say they receive no foundation support – monetary or otherwise — for their organization’s assessment efforts.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

By flagging a transaction (relating the transaction to a particular grant or program), QuickBooks can then quickly pull the related data into relevant reports by a particular grant or program. Let's say that the XYZ Foundation awards your nonprofit a grant for 2011. 2011 AT&T Foundation Gran. 2011 NEH Grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. We brainstormed a few: Real-Time evaluation of communications strategy for a nonprofit or foundation. Do you need annual reports, or will monthly reports suffice? How are you using it to inform decision-making, action, and real-time evaluation? Please share your thoughts in the comments.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Your gift will help us make more of these valuable reports available in 2011. Your gift will help us make more of these valuable reports available in 2011. NTEN's community-based reports clarify technology issues -- like how nonprofits use social networks -- and make selecting software less daunting.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 26, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Last year, Opportunity Knocks commissioned a report 1 to evaluate this question of engagement across the nonprofit workforce. Dianna Schwartz is a 2011 graduate of the Public Allies program at the ASU Lodestar Center. Military Assistance Project.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. This person will take the helm on laying out tasks in a sequence, informing other staff of their roles and assignments, and providing assistance to people as they complete their parts of the evaluation.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Your gift will help us make more of these valuable reports available in 2011. NTEN's community-based reports clarify technology issues -- like how nonprofits use social networks -- and make selecting software less daunting. More than 20,000 copies of NTEN reports were downloaded in 2010 alone.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, April 15, 2011 Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead and Manage a Nonprofit Organization posted by Laura L. NMI students agree; however, they additionally rank high their interest in learning about strategic planning, board governance, grant writing, marketing, program evaluation, and social entrepreneurship.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The more a person’s job includes the following elements, the harder it is to fairly evaluate (and reward) individual performance: 1.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Our Museum also produced a suite of online resources and reports that are impressive, honest, and comprehensive (though a bit tricky to navigate--I recommend using the search function). I recommend starting with the final report, No Longer Us and Them. Dr. Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway?

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

We knew we would ultimately be in 16 countries by the year 2020, which meant that tracking, monitoring, and evaluating projects would become more complicated by the day. We rolled out ProvingIt.org in October 2011. Anybody could observe our progress, at any time. Anybody could observe our progress, at any time. It isn’t perfect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Looking for people in your community to submit reports of littering so you can deploy volunteers for cleanup? Look at how many reports you’ve been receiving prior to crowdsourcing then compare to the number of reports and the time you’ve saved looking for litter sites by other means. Measuring Work.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Yet organizations regularly implement campaigns again and again without evaluating their results and practices, and even fewer measure campaigns in progress to try and improve mid-stream.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

He is using his background as a trader to forward the foundation's approach and spends a lot of time doing research and evaluating data in the pursuit of high risk social change projects. Why Markets for Good may go wrong. According to him, Markets For Good has a flawed understanding of beneficiaries as primarily consumers of information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Each time someone adds a seafood item, they can earn virtual badges (first sushi report, first listing of a particular seafood item). We launched a mobile site , in 2007 aimed at feature phones, and we’re developing an Android version of the app for release in 2011. We’re also experimenting with the introduction of game mechanics.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, April 13, 2011 The cockroach under the refrigerator: scandal and malpractice in philanthropy posted by Travis Butterfield , Project Coordinator ASU Lodestar Center Ever since I worked with Laura Tan on editing her recent blog post , I have been thinking about the unintended effects that volunteer service can have.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies? My simple answer is: evaluate these projects as you would evaluate any new technique or program.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A third (33%) of nonprofit executives take over from someone who was fired or forced to resign, according to the 2011 Daring to Lead report, which surveyed 3000 nonprofit executive directors earlier this year. Then ask to see how the data about this outcome is documented in a systematic way: on which report would this outcome show up?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Friday, December 24, 2010 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Having a mentor is one of the best things you can do to advance your career as a leader. So, decide today to secure a mentor who will work with you during 2011. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Back in the early 1990s, I had a day job studying nonprofit spending and reporting as part of something called the Nonprofit Overhead Cost Study , a joint project between the Urban Institute and Indiana University. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 I heard this advice quoted the other day and wanted to share it. All great advice for leaders and managers as we start 2011. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

This morning, I had the huge honor of presenting the keynote at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, ON. How do you evaluate your programs and services? Not just monitoring twitter or tracking who the influential reporters and bloggers are that discuss our programs or issues. We need to be listening for action.

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NetWits

AUGUST 2, 2012

In fact, in a 2011 report, consumers spoke very loudly that they expect companies to drive social and environmental change and that they will reward these efforts. The Giving USA 2012 report shows us that corporate giving has gone down or been flat for the past two years. Step 1 – Evaluate Your Assets. Guess what?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

It's a shame that several of these projects are labeled as "experimental" and don't have formal evaluation built into their cheap, fast processes. nor Tech Virtual had formal evaluation, although both received media attention that elevated the "value" of the exhibitions in the context of their institutions. Neither Click!

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. But, here's what I think.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Sunday, October 17, 2010 What To Think About For Next Year Hopefully, 2011 will be better for most businesses. ▼ 2010 (108) ► December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As we near the last quarter of 2010, its wise to think about how we can make our businesses stronger in 2011. Set a goal to get your crisis management program in place by the end of this year so youll start 2011 well prepared! 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. And, how often?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The survey typically takes respondents seven to 10 minutes to fill out and the results you get will identify your strengths and weaknesses, and will allow you to compare your evaluators responses to your own self-assessment. The self-evaluation survey is free and its the first step in the program. Make conversation with your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Worse yet, without positive feedback, employees feel no sense that they are appreciated as individual talents with specific desires to learn and grow on the job and in their careers, reports Nicholas Nigro, author of, The Everything Coaching and Mentoring Book. The report that you just prepared for me was thorough and concise.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The program evaluates words and phrases for the intensity of eight primary emotions, allowing you to adjust the overall tone before you send your message. ToneCheck reports that many companies also battle productivity loss triggered by misread employee email. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports.

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