Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

The agendas you create for your board meetings will act as the roadmap for your meetings, letting everyone know what will be discussed and how they can best contribute to the conversation. If you’re looking for ways to evaluate your current agendas and optimize them for efficiency, you’ve come to the right place!

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Evaluation Product Indiana Industry 96

VisionLink

AUGUST 31, 2023

Working on small pilot projects to the nation’s largest natural disasters, you can join a great group of colleagues who wake up every day to improve solutions for amazing customers and partners. These multi-partner, multi-program initiatives leverage the power of coordinated care to make a difference that matters.

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Team Colorado Disaster Evaluation 130

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. How the sector understands and engages in knowledge work is crucial to the success of philanthropic efforts.

Knowledge 73

Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 73

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

We refrained from taking photos, because we wanted to foster an atmosphere of candor and comfort as grantors and grantees engaged in conversation about a difficult topic. Mine are based on what I learned during the dialogue series, and also on untold numbers of public and private conversations on the topic. __. My Recommendations.

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Evaluation Grant Data Boston 52

.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Over a lifetime, we spend approximately 90,000 hours working. Maybe one reason people aren’t happy at work is because they don’t expect to find happiness there. When I Googled “How to create joy at work” these are a few of the best ideas I found. There’s a reason they call it work. Let’s make joy a priority.

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Giving Alexa Demonstration Fun 448

.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. We asked Nancy MacRae, MS, CEO of the Emergency Nurses Association , to help us frame this conversation by sharing her group’s commitment to that idea. Working on culture isn’t a finite activity. Even the Supreme Court has come under fire.

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Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

If you’ve participated in a website redesign or AMS conversion, you know it is not always an easy process for either the experts or the novices, especially when teams are unaccustomed to working across disciplines. You hold grudges and have difficulty moving on after a challenging conversation. Be honest about this.)

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Technology Skills Awareness Leadership 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future.

Leadership 118

Leadership Organization Culture Skills 118

Nimble AMS

MARCH 27, 2023

Do m embers sometimes miss a meeting and want to catch up on the minutes , asking staff to send out relevant documents? Rather than task an employee with more work , your organizati on can l eve rage innovative association management software (AMS) with its online community platform to streamline board management. Keep it confidential.

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Platform Community Management Online 99

Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In conversations with digital advertising agencies, they’ll admit that some clients simply throw money at them because they have a fluid budget. That makes it challenging for the agency to show adequate ROI or valuable conversions to their client when there is no strategy behind the advertising spend. To See The Big Picture.

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Marketing Analysis ROI Picture 246

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Check out the following breakdown of offerings you may want to consider when evaluating fundraising solutions. As you investigate, be sure to ask specific questions about setup, like: Do you have an onboarding team devoted to delivering full data conversions? Do your due diligence by reading third party software evaluations.

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Software Fundraising Training Train 292

.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems. Leaders who promote professional development and education of all kinds also encourage teams to bring an expansive perspective to their work. Offer recognition and tangible rewards to individuals and groups that work together successfully.

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Skills Collaboration Communication Classroom 221

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The introduction of ChatGPT from Open AI makes for jittery breakroom conversation. Use Ability To Tame the Unknown To say that predicting the future of work will be challenging is a gross understatement. Lifelong learners, problem-solvers, innovators, and creative thinkers don’t want to work in an intellectual vacuum.

Team 221

Team Time Skills Professional 221

Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

As engagement in DEI work deepens, it becomes clear that well-intentioned pledges of commitment to incorporate core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are not enough. Your team may be thinking, “equity work is hard. Although I don’t have all the answers, I can share what has worked in my experience.

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Activities Active Activism Organization 97

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Board and staff members spoke about how meaningful it was to come together and get to know each other better, how much they had learned through the conversations we had, and how they felt hopeful about the ways in which their visions for the organization were translated into concrete plans. . That means knowing what to focus on. .

Product 104

Product Effective Tips Evaluation 104

sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s also a valuable tool to help nonprofits evaluate their results by giving them a comparison point for their performance against organizations of similar sizes and issue areas. It’s a reliable touchstone to identify giving trends as well as shifts in sustainer and email engagement in the nonprofit digital space.

Benchmark 84

Benchmark Blackbaud Report Online 84

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically. Horwath : Killing meetings.

Leadership 90

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 90

EveryAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At a bare minimum, the RFP should include: A description of your organization and your work, Why your nonprofit is issuing the RFP, The project requirements along with the software and services you need, and Your proposal submission, review, follow up, and selection process.

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Process Proposal Nonprofit Software 194

Candid

JANUARY 24, 2023

The results: evaluating the success of our social media video experiment We ran this experiment from September 26 to December 9, 2022, and collected analytics to evaluate its success on December 12, 2022. Some of our top videos were just authentic conversations on topics that we knew would be valuable for our audiences.

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Video Social Media Evaluation Audience 140

.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Remote work was the pandemic’s big gift to employees. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. Social skills— along with empathy, help teams successfully collaborate to get work done. 78% would work longer hours for a more empathetic company.

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Virtual Work Skills Culture 221

sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. Those questions can be in an application, in conversations with program officers, or during the deliberation meetings with your board. Or cover it during a conversation instead of the application. Take it out. Streamline your process!

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Question Application Reflection Philanthropy 91

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2016

In any case, it will have to work backward from its mission, and understand how each component contributes to achieving it. This kind of thinking has lead to a lot of conversations (and a lot of anxiety) in the nonprofit sector about performance measurement, outcomes management, evaluation, and impact assessment.

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Evaluation Change Process Measure 52

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. to evaluation for program improvement (“What did we learn that can help us make the program better?”).

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Evaluation Learning Foundation Reflection 86

sgEngage

JULY 12, 2022

Ideally, they will serve as public champions of these efforts and put in the hard work of turning inward. They will not shy away from difficult conversations and assess how they, as individuals, might need to change their own thinking. This requires a full examination of institutional culture and practices. Build a Peer Network.

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Application Grant Evaluation Practice 102

sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. What am I looking for with this question?

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Application Review Evaluation Reflection 81

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

Fundraising is the bread and butter of nonprofit organizations—without gifts from generous donors, your nonprofit wouldn’t be able to work toward its mission. By examining specific performance indicators and essential data metrics, you can evaluate your marketing strategy and make adjustments to create a bigger impact. Conversion rate.

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Fundraising Evaluation Rate Gift 59

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I have said it many, many times and so have lots of others—you’re probably tired of hearing about how social media is supposed to be “a conversation.&# And that’s okay! Because it isn’t JUST a conversation! How have you mapped your conversations and messages at your organization? Stand back!

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Conversation Story Support Strategy 111

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

His work is focused on nonprofits, advocacy, and public affairs. The guide below covers the key steps to running a Facebook fundraising ad campaign from start to finish, including set-up, monitoring and evaluating success after completion. 1) Set up a conversion event and create a campaign. 2) Identify your target audience.

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Facebook Fundraising ROI Virginia 226

.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

But we didn’t anticipate a pandemic that would force every association to become conversant in digital solutions. Marc Benioff, Co-Founder and CEO of SalesForce, describes the goal like this, “A digital ecology is a network of interconnected digital systems that work together to create value. Association 4.0

Leadership 170

Leadership Associations Skills Digital 170

NTEN

JUNE 29, 2023

NTEN has had an increasingly distributed team and a flexible work schedule throughout our 23 years as an organization. So when everyone shifted to working from home during the pandemic, we already had half the staff working remotely, which allowed us to better adapt than many organizations. Working at NTEN is just one aspect.

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NTEN Portland Test Team 68

sgEngage

OCTOBER 29, 2021

While one form design may work best for one nonprofit, your audience is unique and may respond better to a different design. We’ve found through our work with many nonprofits that forms with large bold imagery tend to perform better than forms with small images or no images. 75% higher conversion rate (conversions per visit).

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Test Donation Images Alternative 94

Nimble AMS

JULY 7, 2022

Encourage open dialogue during association events and keep the conversation going in your organization’s virtual community. . Seeking your members’ perspectives can offer invaluable insight in approaching technology upgrades at your organization and working to improve the member experience. Evaluate membership benefits.

Associations 109

Associations Technology Software Survey 109

Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Typically, this involves educating them about your cause or issue and highlighting the work you do. Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. Craft a conversion journey. When the entire donor journey is addressed in your plan, conversion rates for donor acquisition are much stronger. Launch your campaign.

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Fund Donor Strategy Search 52

sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2024

We are customer service experts working in multiple languages, usually with the help of Google Translate. These migrations slow us down considerably and distract us from the high-risk compliance and risk-mitigation work primary to our grants manager job descriptions. Philanthropy’s primary administrative function is grantmaking.

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Impact Technology Articulate Grant 79

sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

It involves examining power dynamics, addressing structural barriers, and promoting fairness and justice in all aspects of philanthropic work. These biases are built into the very fabric of the laws and institutions in which we work and live.

Philanthropy 91

Philanthropy Action Structure Law 91

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically. Horwath : Killing meetings.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Make it as smooth as a great conversation. Consider using scoring rubrics or structured interview protocols to standardize evaluations and minimize bias to keep things equitable. Make sure that working together is something everyone looks forward to. Describe not just the roles but the impact these roles have.

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Director Guide Metrics Nonprofit 76