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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Remote work is challenging teams.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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We all want to know whether our work makes a difference. Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. But, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) frameworks and approaches may not be as objective as they seem.

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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10 Things to Look for When Evaluating a Grant Proposal

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Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. To help you better review submissions so that you are set up for success, here are 10 items you should look for as you evaluate your grant applications. Program Timeline. Measurement Plan.

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Evaluating Event Formats: In-Person, Virtual, or Hybrid

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Events are a staple in the nonprofit sector, helping to meet various purposes like fundraising, donor acquisition, and supporter engagement. However, with the rise of different event formats, planning your next nonprofit event has become more complex. Let’s get started! In-Person In-person nonprofit events are straightforward.

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3 Effective Tools for (Re)Branding Your Nonprofit

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The pandemic has caused many mission-driven organizations to re-evaluate their mission, reconsider their strategic plan to accomplish it, and then engage donors and advocates from this new position. How to Evaluate the Options Objectively. Below are a few of the criteria in the evaluation methodology.

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Give Joy!

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Offer to help when help isn’t expected. One of the reasons people are eager to work from home is because it is a place where they are comfortable. Survey the office and evaluate the comfort quotient. Are there areas where workers have privacy as well as places to collaborate? Take time to listen to the answer.

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