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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. As part of managing growth and scaling the business, Zappos adopted the Holacracy constitution. The adoption of Holacracy encouraged autonomy and distributed authority, key pillars today. I’m not suggesting that you level the cake.

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Report calls for shift to more equitable evaluation practices

Candid

A report from the Equitable Evaluation Initiative (EEI) and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations highlights how foundations are working to integrate an equity lens into their evaluation practices. In their engagement with the framework, practitioners identified three key shifts in mindset: from “doing” to “being” (i.e.,

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To Build or Buy a Software Solution: Which is Right for You?

Association Analytics

While usage is a great data point to evaluate your product’s success, there’s so much more to consider when weighing the options to build an in-house solution or use an off-the-shelf product. Throughout the evaluation process, it’s important to keep your association’s unique goals and success metrics top-of-mind.

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Choosing a Marketing Automation Application for Your Nonprofit: 5 Steps to Success

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Tech integrations: See how the application integrates with other tools you use. 4) Evaluate your team’s capabilities As often as not, nonprofits overbuy when it comes to their marketing application. Maybe they don’t need everything they thought they did — or maybe the team wasn’t up to the task of full adoption.

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GTD Meets GPT: How to Adopt The AI 2-minute Rule

Whole Whale

Never, unless you adopt it in the right way. Welcome: AI 2-Minute Rule As a starting point, assume what takes you 2 hours can take AI 2 minutes , consider this when evaluating tasks. The adoption of this new rule will take some time at first but the rewards are significant, especially for leaders.

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Next Generation Evaluation: Embracing Complexity, Connectivity, and Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last spring at the “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations ” meeting convened by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, practitioners from social media, measurement, evaluation, programs, communication, and philanthropy worked on a synthesis of these disciplines to address measurement. Technology!

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How to use innovative technology to attract members to your association

Nimble AMS

Technology is irrevocably integrated into our daily lives. Like it or not, in our digital-driven world, non-members will evaluate how your association leverages innovative technologies to determine whether your organization is worth joining. Adopt innovative technology at your association. Innovative e-commerce.