Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2019

By Brent Merritt , a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. The M+R report highlights that November is the biggest month for Facebook Fundraisers, accounting for nearly a quarter of yearly revenue in 2018, so there’s no better time than right now to evaluate and refine your plan.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

For hardware, the time that differentiates. material, and always try things out before investing time and money. crowdsourcing , you will find analyses and opinions from bloggers and writers just by. You may think that the five-person, three full-time. fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper.

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Evaluation Technology Tips AJAX 60

NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2020

Add Credibility with a Nonprofit Evaluation Plan. Unlike for-profits that can measure their success by evaluating their sales, nonprofits can only measure their success by estimating how many milestones they’ve achieved. This evaluation approach will work if you have a very specific mission statement. Author Bio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

Evaluation and Learning sessions help grantmakers and their partners better use evaluation to foster learning and make real-time improvements in their work. Cindy Rizzo, Senior Director, Grantmaking and Evaluation, Arcus Foundation. David Colby, Vice President, Research and Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

For hardware, the time that differentiates what is "new" and "passé" is becoming shortened. Be judicious when reading marketing material, and always try things out before investing time and money. Your new iPhone is becoming old faster; your familiarity of the popular social networking app du jour may soon become obsolete.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2017

And, as blogger Vu Le says, donating to organizations on the ground can be a form of self-care. Then, I look for local charities on the ground, many times there is a local community foundation that is stepping up. This article in the New York Times provides some good advice. How do you decide which organizations to support?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Nonprofit Blogger. Collecting and synthesizing volunteer data may take a little time on the front end, but it should pay off in the long run. It's all about turning the raw numbers into usable tools for evaluation, decision-making, and action plans for the future. Shawn Kendrick. VolunteerHub.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. How to set aside time for reflection and learning. Luckily, the learning, evaluation and knowledge management pioneers want to keep talking and meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. But the next question was not so easy: “When it comes to evaluation and strategy development, there’s no such thing as “too transparent.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. I went to the Learning in Public session expecting to hear that the process the Packard Foundation used to evaluate their capacity building work was wildly successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Packard and the TCC Group collaborated on an alternative approach evaluating the foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program. Flickr Photo by AnEye4Pictures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. They were also able to leverage an evaluation and learning community to develop common definitions for policy. Photo by Sea Turtle. Have any of you used this approach?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

It’s soft and maliable and relative, pretty much all of the time. So, how do identify if you are succeeding or evaluate if you are improving? Whether it’s a Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, or whatever, you have access to built-in web analytics or the option to use Google Analytics. In this example, we are using a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Many individuals and foundations are taking “baby steps” towards creating learning cultures, but lack of time for learning is one chronic complaint. Flickr Photo by Zen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. It also sounds less costly and complicated than evaluation. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The effort is currently undergoing an evaluation which will direct its geographic focus and future online presence. Here is the advice I am taking away: We need to give more time, money and value to relationship building, especially developing the network weaving skills of members. What do members give to get?

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 3, 2017

To begin, it’s important to evaluate your needs. In other words, if your site becomes quickly popular and starts gobbling up server space the host will most likely require you to upgrade to a more expensive service level as your site will begin hampering the speed, response times etc. What about a shared platform? VPS Hosting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

I was invited to a briefing session with other media and bloggers to learn more. I first head of this book after reading this article in the New York Times back in March, 2013. When you evaluate people, you look for potential, often seeing the best in others.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

This week’s guest blogger Stephanie Spindell has the answers for us. The process of researching and selecting potential partners is not a difficult exercise but requires adequate sector experience, time, and resources. Evaluate each nonprofit on the list and determine the best candidates. Thanks Stephanie!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 23, 2011

I have a hard time assuming the worst about anyone, and I have difficulty comprehending why there isn't a political party I can subscribe to called "Sharing and Caring" or "Everyone Just Hold Hands and Sing." I'm not saying you should go throw your money and time around willy nilly. Group Hugs. Other fact: It's very, very true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

They also implemented a bloggers outreach campaign to do a product giveaway. My Dirty Life & Times. It refers to a fairly new way of evaluating the effectiveness of projects by drawing out the underlying assumptions about how they lead to social change. Become a fan of HP for Home to share your ideas. Fine Blog .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

In honor of the book release I welcome guest blogger Ken Blanchard. How to Evaluate Your Leadership Style By Ken Blanchard, Co-author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life Today, I'm going to give a short, one-question quiz. If the supervisor answers with an outburst by saying, "What do you mean a waste of time?

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Disclaimer: I shall start this post by stating that the internal views of this article are that of the blogger himself and not Gyrus Systems as an entity. Disclaimer 2: There is a high likelihood that much like the debate itself, I will go over my self-allotted time limit. Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The time, money and effort also sounds overwhelming. When time and money are at a super-premium, all that extra commitment and dedication better be worth it.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As you implement the strategies given in this guide, you’ll be able to find and recruit people who want to dedicate their time and talent to helping your organization. When someone is willing to donate an hour of their time, a nonprofit is able to save money while getting the assistance they need to move their work forward.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

No one likes a dull board meeting, or a long one, or one that doesn’t start on time. That’s why we turned to guest blogger Susan Schaefer for fresh ideas on this problem in this week’s guest post. . Chances are, they share these traits: Convenient, agreed-upon meeting time and location. Prompt start and end times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The participants were consultants who worked with nonprofits on organizational strategic planning, financial planning, evaluation, and other organizational capacity areas. I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. "All that takes time," Williams added.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

A reporter from the Seattle Times asked how the company makes sure that their day jobs actually gets done. Todd Bishop put like this: Can Microsoft change the world and conquer it at the same time? Chatting with David Connor , we both had the same reaction – who knew?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

This very long post has been a long-time coming for so many reasons. At a training last week with a lot of long-time Facebook Admins in the room, I saw much head-nodding and eyes rolling. I think the time has come for nonprofits to examine Facebook a little deeper. It’s time for them to give back.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

to which New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom tweeted back “No kidding.”. Just because you aren’t meeting offline, in real-time, in the same room with your supporters and the competitors in the ideablob competition, does not mean likewise that you do not need to know if the platform will even be around for your competition to finish.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

For some good how-to posts, check out my co-blogger Alissa Ruehl , perhaps starting with her Intro to Google Analytics. Ideally, we’d evaluate the previous year of data to observe patterns in different giving cycles. Time spent on the site. If you don’t have it, I’d highly recommend going out and installing it right away.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

In modern times, there is not a day that goes by in which I forego attempting to learn from my peers. Bloggers just like myself are sitting there tormenting their brains in an effort to say things that impact you more than the person before them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

How much time do I have to spend on social media? Check out Beth Kanter's post, How Much Time Does It Take to Do Social Media? to help you estimate how much time you might need, and compare it with the time you have to give. Also, what is the time line for the project? WordPress , Blogger ) Podcast (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

We ran an evaluation after the event and found that the majority of those who had asked questions during Ask a Curator were encouraged by the event to visit the museums they had exchanged tweets with. Participants and bloggers can use these handy banners and already San Francisco Symphony’s Donato Cabrera put on up on his site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Get affiliated (trained/certified) (so that an emergency response organization can put you to work in a leadership position immediately in a time of disaster. At the time of this writing, one week into the six week campaign there were 1,337 actions pledged. A breakdown of the engagement and site visit stats are below.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2011

I would say that I am an author, teacher, speaker, blogger, network weaver, and social media scientist." A great structure can evaluate hundreds of new ideas each year and identify the 2% that will drive real meaningful value to the organization, the constituent, donors and volunteers. You spread it out over time and months.

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