DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

At this point, the question isn’t whether to use tech but whether your tech stack is configured in a way that positions your organization for success. A nonprofit technology assessment is an evaluation of the digital maturity of your organization. Do you have standardized practices for data management ?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

In this article, we’ll provide some guidance to those who are ready to move beyond the board statement or public equity pledge to actively and intentionally implement Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) practices and strategies into their consultant search process. . Ask clarifying questions. .

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Do they have budget or timeline questions that could help them better prepare a bid for you? But with proper planning and diligent attention to foundational processes and procedures, it is possible to get a handle on these components and comprehensively define your needs so you can communicate effectively with prospective vendors.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria. Ask behavioral and situational questions to get a better understanding of the candidate’s role compatibility. This could be a panel interview for a more comprehensive evaluation or an interview with a different department head for an additional perspective.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria. Ask behavioral and situational questions to get a better understanding of the candidate’s role compatibility. This could be a panel interview for a more comprehensive evaluation or an interview with a different department head for an additional perspective.

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BoardAssist

MAY 27, 2014

Gail’s list of 26 practices every board should follow: 1. Recruiting New Members. They enforce term limits, no discussion, no question. They pay attention to the intangible issue of group process – how the board members work together as a group. They are willing to challenge each other, and willing to ask questions.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

In the following blog post, we will delve into practical strategies to help your nonprofit maximize its efforts during the crucial calendar year-end period. Similar questions can be asked of pandemic ”crisis donors” and monthly donors. Practice radical stewardship! But fret not – this is where our guide comes in.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 28, 2016

Even small organizations require a great deal of attention to volunteers. Regularly checking in with volunteers isn’t a practice that should be taken lightly. Evaluations are scary. I love the way JFFixler Group phrased it with their article “ Volunteer Valuation, Not Evaluation.” It should be mandatory.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

But attention to the infrastructure’s nuts and bolts is also important. This comprehensive exploration of your digital systems could include evaluating security, network functions, system management, user experience, and overall performance. Why is this extra attention important? In the tech world state-of-the-art doesn’t exist.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

If someone has a legitimate question, they call the appropriate person before the Board meeting to ask. Questions about minor issues can be handled in those calls. Practical/tactical stuff like processes and systems is easy to fix. You also get to skip the committee chairs who take up time rehashing what’s in their reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

#GivingTuesday is a day of giving where of thousands of organizations and individuals ( including me ) come together to give and call attention to giving, volunteering, and infecting others. It answers many questions hosts may have about planning, implementing, and evaluating the day.

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

Practice your pitch. Take a look at the following eight best practices for asking for donations in person. Practice your pitch. To help alleviate this fear, practice your pitch regularly! Practice in front of a mirror or with colleagues to make notes of your body language and any nervous gestures. Balance is key.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Enhanced data quality : A data warehouse helps you integrate your data into one place, but it also offers the opportunity to reinforce your data hygiene practices. Identify the key questions you want to answer and the insights you need to gain from your data. Research top providers. Create a request for proposal (RFP).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

We’re going to cover types of eLearning assessments through the following questions: What is an eLearning assessment? What eLearning assessment best practices can strengthen your courses? Then, we’ll wrap up with a few best practices to take your assessments to the next level. Open-Ended Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. The challenge here is that program staff who have been steeped in learning often have a hard time telling their story simply, in ways that attract attention.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

One way for corporations to practice philanthropy is workplace giving, which relies on employee participation: Workplace giving is an employer-sponsored giving program that helps employees contribute to charitable causes. Your employees will likely pay more attention when a nonprofit they support mentions another opportunity for support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

While the reports are guides to funders, if you do work as a capacity builder, you will find some useful insights for your practice. Other areas include: communications, executive transition, evaluation/learning, networking/convening, and professional development. Engage grantees in the evaluation design and implementation.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Don’t just look at how many clicks you get, but pay attention to when people are clicking. Facebook Insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Indeed, while there have been recent articles and case studies calling attention to this work and holding up the promise of “collective impact,” there is not yet significant knowledge on HOW to do this work. How can we create standards of practice or at least shared language and framing? How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks?

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Classy

APRIL 22, 2021

Influencing corporate sustainability policies and practices. In partnership, we are committed to achieving the following milestones: Influence Company Policies and Practices. Evaluate existing company incentives and their environmental implications. Educating and engaging employees. Corporate Green Policy: Achieved.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

However, we also realized that remote work is here to stay, and like the dog that needs a walk, interpersonal relationships are going to continue to require deliberate attention. It can also help you evaluate your group’s current strengths and weaknesses. For example, a job interview, performance evaluation, or strategy decision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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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 The intermediary only pays the return on the investment for programs that work, based on the findings of independent evaluators.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2022

Follow these tips to ensure that your letter is as effective as possible: Once you’ve completed this process and feel like you’re ready to do a final review of your letter, ask yourself the following questions: Is your appeal letter easy to read? You should also make sure that your formatting helps with readability.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

If you were paying close attention when GDPR came around in 2018 and your organization is confidently GDPR-compliant , you are probably in good shape beyond some updates to privacy policy language. Know your data The practices are in alignment with nonprofit values AND good practices anyway.

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DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 28, 2023

If you haven’t evaluated your CRM or cleaned up your data recently, doing so can make a major difference in your capability to engage donors. Pay attention to social media engagement metrics like the number of likes, shares, and click-throughs each post receives. Consider updating your CRM system. Embed the form into your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. Most attention to scaling social impact has tended to focus on replicating programs to extend service delivery.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

With an effective and sustainable nonprofit fundraising campaign, charities have the potential to engage broad audiences and increase their impact as their funding grows. Sustainable fundraising practices can help you grow, ensure long-term support, and even aid larger projects like funding research. Develop a Strategy. Let’s begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Photo by Bart Maguire Note from Beth: I invited Stephanie to publish her blog post about the network evaluation discussion we had with Michael Quinn Patton yesterday. Our Evaluation Director Gale Berkowitz invited Michael to spend a day at the Foundation while he was out on the West Coast. Coordinate ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Simply put, we are living an era of content abundance. A content curator offers high value to anyone looking for quality content because finding that information (and making sense of it) requires more and more time, attention, and focus. Susan Kistler has an example with evaluation resources.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

However, even with templates, writing and sending emails to individual supporters is hardly practical. However, there are ways to optimize your nonprofit database to ensure the data you are getting is worthwhile such as: Practicing data hygiene. Your nonprofit can and should experiment so it can gain data to answer specific questions.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Evaluate peer organizations to identify your peers’ strengths and weaknesses, compare them to yours, and find opportunities to differentiate your organization. While visuals are often used to capture the recipient’s attention, your primary goal should be to connect the visual aspects of the mailer to the message in your copy.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

However, most nonprofit CRMs share a few standard features to help nonprofits evaluate and act on donor data. The following questions should help: Research the features available from each nonprofit software solution. Be sure to request a demo for each of your top options, and don’t be afraid to ask questions along the way.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 9, 2022

Here are some best practices to incorporate when identifying major donors: 1. Review your donor files to evaluate the giving histories of your donors and identify your most loyal, faithful donors. Pay attention to these options, whether it is a one-time event or an opportunity for ongoing interaction. Try again a week later.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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