ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2012

When starting out with social media as a nonprofit, it can be a tricky and confusing process. Besides a website, the musts of nonprofit social media include a Facebook page and Twitter account. I re-evaluated the mission and audience of the organization and found a healthy mix. It’s about your cause.

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NetWits

JUNE 5, 2012

In 2011, we wanted to evaluate our BFKS website to see what was working and what might need to be updated. Jennifer’s going to share her 6 Survey Best Practices on Thursday. Sign up today! Here’s a sneak peek at Thursday’s session. What did Big Brothers Big Sisters Do? . Want to Learn More?

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Survey Fundraising Advice Social Media 127

NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

CiviCRM Training Details: Date: March 16 - 17, 2011 Location: Pew DC Conference Center, 901 E St. This event is aimed at administrators and technical users at organizations that are either using CiviCRM or interested in evaluating it. Penguin Day DC 2011 is organized by Aspiration and PICnet. We’d love to see you there!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Last week was the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference and not only did I have the pleasure of presenting a couple sessions, it was also my first NTC as a staffer, as I joined NTEN earlier this month. I had a really wonderful time, and the Community-Driven Social Impact session was terrific! Presentation. So, what is that opportunity?

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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. By Andrea Berry, Idealware Social media has provided nonprofits with a whole new toolbox for marketing themselves and engaging constituents. Now apply that to social media. Social media remains largely uncharted territory.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

For example, Simone works for an evaluation organization. And for more fun nonprofit tech talk, check out our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Another great approach is to go straight to mission: How is this tech solution going to get your organization closer to meeting its mission?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Preventative measures such as performance evaluations, self-regulation policies, effective donor communication approaches, ethical leadership, and social auditing serve as accountability enforcers in various capacities within an organization. Social Auditing. Good to Great and the Social Sectors.” References. Collins, J.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Starting over may not be an option, but in the absence of that, here are ten things event fundraisers and marketers should be considering to reinvent their plans for 2011: Become more data driven. Bottom line: the tracking, mining, and analysis of data should be central to your 2011 event fundraising strategy. Think relationships.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce Acquires Buddy Media for $689 Million – "Salesforce has entered an agreement to acquire social media marketing platform Buddy Media for approximately $689 million, the company has announced. What does social media success look like, anyway?" The full report is here.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 25, 2011

ROI of social media can be an intangible- The NonProfit Times March 15, 2011: "here's Facebook, Second Life, Myspace, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter and now Jumo. There are many smaller social networking platforms. What's It Cost?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 6, 2019

Nonprofits are also require to pay employment taxes , like Social Security and Medicare, just like for-profit organizations. The Form 990 is required for nearly all federally tax-exempt organizations, and it’s used to evaluate your organization’s programs, finances, mission statement and more. The Form 990.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs." " Conversation is the New Attention – "This article is adapted from their SXSW 2011 talk, Toss the Projector: Redefining the Speaker/Audience Dynamic.

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Care2

APRIL 9, 2014

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) -. Speaking of online, what about social media? The report, which analyzed data from 53 nonprofits, over 2.1

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

It got us using social media in a way we hadn’t before, and our supporters loved it. This was a real chance to harness social media across all platforms. NTEN – Here's a great run-down from Amy Luckey of the process to use in exploring and evaluating your organization's impact. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012). Overview of the Current Realities of the Social Sector.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Meaningful tools to evaluate effectiveness are largely absent (Liket and Maas, 2015). This means an increased demand for more and better evaluation (Renz and Murray, 2010) is needed. Nonprofit organizations should identify evaluation methods to assess their programs and organization effectiveness on an ongoing basis.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media, online campaigns, and community engagement can be tricky things to dive into and do well without measuring, monitoring and evaluating. How to evaluate? Location : online with Nonprofit Webinars. Topic : Do-It-Yourself Community Metrics. But what to measure?

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In 2020, the pandemic and its resulting social distancing guidelines led nonprofits to experiment with virtual events (many of them for the first time). Your marketing specialists get the word out about your gala to your supporters through email, social media, direct mail, and any other communication channels your nonprofit uses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Now many funders have funded measurement via third-party evaluations and as a result think they’ve funded measurement. The irony is that if nonprofits had good measurement systems in would enrich third-party evaluations and external rating approaches!

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2011

The official hashtag for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference is #11NTC. And can find social events like : Find Social Events Once you’ve got the hang of it, you can start following the conversation for individual sessions too. There are 2 ways to evaluate a session: Text the Evaluation Code to 69866.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

While I have been doing content curation for the past twenty years that I’ve worked as a technology trainer, in July, 2011 I discovered the Scoop.It Recently, Robin highlighted an article by Jarche titled, “ Ask What Value You Can Add ” on Social Media Today. Evaluating: Rate and rank items in your collection.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2014

The study looked at peer-to-peer giving across 39 organizations over the last 3 years (from 2011 to 2013). In the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere , that I co-wrote with Amy Sample Ward of NTEN, we disucss the pyschology of fundraising. The endurance event stats are not suprising. Does it work? Ask people on both channels.

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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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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2012

Big Duck is challenging their newsletter readers to take 2011 trends and turn them into 2012 resolutions. For example, you’re using your image in fundraising campaigns, social media, and messaging, but have you evaluated or reevaluated your brand recently? Speaking of Big Duck , they are hiring !

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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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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. Support the NTEN Research Program by making a tax-deductible donation today.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2012

Wired and Dangerous : How consumers (and constituents) are more empowered than ever by social media and the “word of mouse.” ” By Chip Bell, Summit 2011 keynote speaker. Level Best : Better understand evaluation and measurement tools for valuable, practical results. Read our own Seth Merritt's book review now.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2011

Maybe it’s a little late to start thinking about resolutions since we’re already 18 days into 2011 but better to make them late than not at all, right? Incorporate social media more thoroughly into your site by encouraging social sharing, displaying dynamic feeds and promoting your social media presences.

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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. Private companies are also testing the concept by actually sharing data.

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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. A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In terms of “Action,” nonprofits can deploy crowdsourcing initiatives that encourage many people to contribute to a cause such as through crowdfunding on platforms like Causes or Crowdrise or any of the other numerous social online fundraising platforms. Recording results and analyzing outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

I wanted to find out more about how Seafood Watch integrates its mobile strategy across its communications channel, including social media. 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. An app is not another form of email or social media channel.

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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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2014

In 2011, we wanted to evaluate our Bowl for Kids Sake website to see what was working and what might need to be updated. The point of doing this early in the process is to make sure that your evaluation results will have meaning. Take it away Jennifer. What did Big Brothers Big Sisters do?

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NetWits

AUGUST 2, 2012

No one disagrees that proving a company’s Social Responsiblity is very important to consumers. 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. Step 1 – Evaluate Your Assets. from Social Score. #

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community.

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