Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

If you’d like to help Florida hospitals ensure that they have a stable blood supply, find a drive near you. Heart to Heart International has already deployed an advance response team to Florida and are planning to send another team to help after the storm passes with a medical van. Donate here to help them make a difference.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2023

If you want to contribute to relief efforts in Maui, there are plenty of ways you can help. Here are some options for you: Support the First Responders The American Red Cross and the American Red Cross of Hawaii have mobilized to open shelters, distribute emergency supplies, help with damage assessment, and locate missing loved ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? Learn more about the conversation here. Improvement should be continuous, and we should learn from our mistakes.

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Candid

MAY 15, 2024

At the Honnold Foundation, we had been working in partnership with grassroots organizations for some time before we learned that there was a term for the kind of grantmaking we do: trust-based philanthropy (TBP). Ultimately, TBP is about facilitating community self-determination, helping partners envision and create the future that they want.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Maybe the organization needs additional help understanding new accounting guidance that is effective and the impacts on its financial records. Clear and frequent communication channels will help ensure that your audit is progressing smoothly. This has allowed for smoother and more efficient audits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Explore how the strategic integration of SWOT analysis, audience mapping, SMART communication targets, channel identification, content strategy, execution and evaluation, and high-level communications planning can shape a successful digital transformation. The following prompt and instructions can help you develop it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Be Helpful. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 4, 2022

The data that you gathered from these events is a valuable asset to help inform your decision. Leveraging analytics will help you identify if there is value in continuing hybrid or online events for your organization. Consider both hard and hidden costs when evaluating your events. Use Your Learnings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I entered the community as a foundation evaluator wanting to find the best strategies and tools for documenting and learning about networks but also for measuring those difficult-to-pin-down outcomes and impact. Evaluation can also help foundations get the feedback they need to modulate their role and influence.

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Gyrus

APRIL 19, 2016

Editor's Note: This blog was originally published in KM World in April 2016, and has been reproduced here with permission. In the digital world, one can turn to a blog, Wikipedia, social media platforms, online knowledge forums, videos, etc. will be a problem if you just let your employees learn on their own.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. These cases were attributed to some of the records in our training data, which our AI overemphasized during learning. What can bias look like in the data?

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

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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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2024

Here are a few simple steps to help you create a solid budget that helps your organization allocate resources effectively and makes your budgeting process easier. You prioritize programs and initiatives that help you achieve meaningful impact. That allows you to do more to fulfill your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes peer learning.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 27, 2023

Read our blog for strategies to get st arted. Dividing your board members into subcommittee groups could help to further streamline their work processes and encourage conversation. Streamline the process for your board members by setting an expiration date so the evaluation or compliance document must be completed yearly.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the concept of community leadership in foundations and discuss how they can support their grantees beyond the dollar. By investing in the development of organizational skills, leadership capabilities, and strategic planning, foundations help grantees become more resilient and effective in their work.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

My many years of experience collecting and analyzing data as an evaluator naturally lead me to ask: What has been the measurable impact of this important shift? The importance of data Data helps make the case for increased investments in racial equity. We quickly learned, however, of the complexity of defining the terms.

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

As you may have heard, we’re building new Candid tools to help those working in the social sector to do good even more efficiently and effectively in a fast-changing world. Depending on the feature being released, we use a variety of methods to learn whether the solution is successful. We scrapped the design and started over.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore the significance of advancing equity in philanthropic grantmaking and discuss actionable steps that donors, organizations, and social changemakers can take to make a meaningful impact. This can help identify best practices, leverage resources more effectively, and avoid duplication of efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Gail’s question at the end of this post made stop and think. Keeping people engaged in learning along the way happens when people discover that it is the learning that is exciting part! Keeping people engaged in learning along the way happens when people discover that it is the learning that is exciting part!

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 22, 2023

But before you can move ahead in your search, evaluation, purchase, and implementation of new AMS technology, you still need one thing: board approval. Read our blog for four tips to ensure your AMS tech pitch appeals to your individual board member’s roles and concerns. Let them know that modern AMS technology can help them too.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

This blog is the third in our series on MarTech for nonprofits. If you want a refresher on what MarTech is, check out the first blog here. If you want to know why every nonprofit organization should have a MarTech stack, read the second blog here. Where do we go to learn about our website’s performance?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Here are some tips to help you convince your stakeholders that streamlining your grantee application is not only good for your grantees, but also for your organization. This will help you identify areas that need improvement and the benefits of streamlining your application. Does your application match your values?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One crucial aspect of empathetic leadership is willingness – a willingness to help employees through their personal issues, recognizing that work and personal lives are becoming more and more intertwined. You need to provide opportunities for their continuous learning on the job and mentoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Rapid advances in technology and modern workforce needs are transforming the way, workforce learning & training is delivered and training courses are created. Mobile learning. Mobile Learning enables you to present smaller sized, interactive online learning to your employees without restricting them to a particular time or a place.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 30, 2024

Other AI solutions nonprofits commonly use include chatbots or virtual assistants to help streamline manual work. Some of the most helpful solutions for fundraising are data processors like IBM Watson or Google Cloud AI. These solutions leverage predictive analytics to help anticipate future donor actions.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

This blog post was written by Ayomide Fatoye, Summer 2021 Forum One. Those nine weeks were amazing, and I got to learn a ton. I decided to do what any good nerd does when they learn something new: write a blog post about it. . It helps you do better as an organization. First, what is web accessibility?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

A Culture of Learning – Guest post by Teri Behrens. At the “Learning in Public” breakout session, Beth Kanter, Jared Raynor (TCC Group) and Kathy Reich (David and Lucile Packard Foundation) sharing the Packard Foundation’s experience with learning in public. The GEO 2012 conference is off to a great start.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

Engaging volunteers helps get the word out about your mission, since most volunteers share their passion with their personal and professional networks. Volunteers can certainly be a huge help for any nonprofit staffer, especially since cloning yourself isn’t an option… yet. Recruit Like Your Mission Depends on It.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

What happens when a new hire with a head full of ideas wants to switch to the software they used in their last job or learned about in college? As leaders, sometimes we need to pump the breaks and evaluate things from a different perspective. The post Combatting Innovation Creep first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Baseball and your Learning Organization. As an admitted Cleveland Indians fan and gracious World Series loser, I thought long and hard about how I could somehow link America’s Pastime to this unique blog. So you may be asking yourself where is the linkage to learning programs? Measuring Learning.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From navigating donor data to finding the most effective ways to communicate, AI for fundraising can be applied to many aspects of your organization to help lift some of the burden of changing the world. These systems follow predefined instructions without the ability to learn from new data. What is AI? How can charities use AI?

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

That’s why we’ve compiled three essential tips to help your team prepare for AI fundraising : 1. Begin by defining AI for non-technical team members, explaining that it can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning from data, making predictions, or recognizing patterns. Conduct staff training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve been a big believer in shared knowledge and learning for the sector. While they confess that they still don’t know the ultimate answer to that question, they have learned a thing or two in their continued pursuit of that goal. How the Nonprofit Sector Can Share What We Learn and Why We Should.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

At Candid, we believe that sharing and learning from one another helps empower our sector’s collective success.  This evaluation looks at one such program, Supporting Education and Employment Development (SEED). The post Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023  appeared first on Candid Blog.

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