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Power and Light: Transparency and Effectiveness in the Nonprofit and Philanthropy World

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I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofit s with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg. One of the chapters is about measuring transparency. Foundation Center President Bradford Smith started off with a very clear articulation about why transparency is important.

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Social Media and Governance: Reflections from BoardSource

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View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance. There were no examples – so the last chapter of the book is speculative, based on the best thinking of the people who have looked at networked governance. Board source View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is about how social media (and other digital tools I might add) help an organization move towards longer-term outcomes in their theory of change or articulated goals. This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities.

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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the chapters is on organizational culture – what’s in the DNA of a “data-driven&# nonprofit and what are the incremental steps for change? Presents a regular report to senior leadership which details high level successes, challenges, and recommendations for moving forward. Articulating measurable goals.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

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Spence, an 11 th grader at ECHS wrote, “I am one of the Environmental Charter students you presented to on Friday. It’s so great to see all these kids focused on education and with well-articulated goals for where they want to be someday. Since the visit to the school I’ve already had students follow up with me.”.

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Ocean Conservancy: The Art of Social Media Experimentation, Learning, and Reflection

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In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , we devote an entire chapter to something we called "Learning Loops" which is a combination of tracking and monitoring in real time as a project unfolds, but also incorporates a process of reflection at the end of the project to the next experiment. . You can't answer this question "What's the Value?"

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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

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View more presentations from kanter. The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil ! Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." tags: nonprofits roi ).

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