Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. ” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Use Learning Theory.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Because the teams were not prepared at the year-end audit for these types of significant changes, there were often issues that required auditors to spend additional time in discussions with management or to document their understanding of the changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Notes from Discussion. 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. Guest post by Tom Kelly. I am a list maker. To followup. Communication: The words we use.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

Ries defines the MVP like this: “The MVP is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.” It opens services and activities to ongoing evaluation and adjustment. The MVP is the first of several iterations.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

A nonprofit technology assessment is an evaluation of the digital maturity of your organization. We communicate our recommended strategy for improving your nonprofit’s tech stack and discuss the best path forward with your team. The post Nonprofit Technology Assessment: Evaluate Your Tech appeared first on DNL OmniMedia, Inc.

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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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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. Preparing a board matrix is a learning experience. Preparing this document is a learning experience. In-person discussions should occur both formally and informally before and after new members are welcomed to the board. A calendar of events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

How do you learn? When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? The brain science literature suggests that learners understand and remember more when they talk about what they are learning.

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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? At the 2022 Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) conference, a few fellow evaluators and I discussed the findings of the AAPIP report Seeking to Soar.

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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. . When possible, we include follow-up meetings.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 27, 2023

Creating a central place for conversations is a great way to encourage discussion about your meeting agenda and keep the conversation flowing after the latest board meeting. Streamline the process for your board members by setting an expiration date so the evaluation or compliance document must be completed yearly. Boost collaboration.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

This curated track features members of Blackbaud’s K–12 Executive Advisory Board and our internal experts discussing how technology in schools has evolved, new best practices, and fresh ideas. Join us in this session to learn what responsible AI could mean for your school. Where do you start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Learning in Public Challenges and Actions – guest post by Annie Hernandez. 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. Would this make sense for an evaluation you are in the process of completing?

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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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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. Evaluation and Learning: Foundations can provide grantees with robust evaluation frameworks and support them in measuring their impact effectively.

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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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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. Teri Behrens, formerly the director of evaluation at the W.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning – guest post by Cindy Rizzo. During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers. How to set aside time for reflection and learning.

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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. Join me in Denver at #bbcon2023 I’m presenting at bbcon in October! Register here today!

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

The best way to ready ourselves for this shifting environment is Continuous Learning. Continuous learning is an established persistent learning process, designed for bolstering the knowledge and skills of your workforce over time, and presents itself in many forms. Establishing a formal policy of Continuous Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’ve also used this as benchmark for my training and peer learning projects so one could quantify transformation. This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Explore the steps below to learn how to build a MarTech stack and how your team can use those tools. Where do we go to learn about our website’s performance? While this list is great for starting the discussion, for a more detailed audit and analysis, enlist the support of Media Cause MarTech experts.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

Evaluate post-campaign data. Meet with everyone on your staff involved with the fundraising campaign to review your campaign goals, discuss the campaign results, and talk through lessons learned. Once you’ve evaluated your campaign, start thinking strategically about your next campaign. Access your data.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

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. . These add-ons evaluate your website’s accessibility and provide suggestions on how your site could be improved. First, what is web accessibility?

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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. To mitigate this, work as a group to evaluate AI outputs across different demographic groups and address disparities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. . Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible.

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Achieve

JULY 21, 2022

This enables you to evaluate your nonprofit’s overall financial health and, subsequently, make sure that your funds are being allocated as effectively as possible in the future. While every document we’ll discuss is a variation of Form 990, this is the full version of the document. The “Full” Form 990.

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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 means moving away from rigid funding structures and timelines toward more agile and responsive approaches.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2011

Next, engage them in a discussion of whether the planned activities are sufficient to produce these desired results. Interested in learning more about designing and implementing. an effective results-oriented program evaluation system? In fact, this step should really precede design of the program.). Tatro, held this.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 13, 2024

Weigand You’ve just learned that one of your largest donors has passed away and left a sizeable portion of her estate to your organization. Notwithstanding, the personal representative should be viewed as a resource but not a substitute for hiring your own attorney, as discussed further below. By Kevin W.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Seek to round out your campaign’s messaging by giving your audience a clear call to action to get involved or learn more. Step 1: Set objectives and goals Start by outlining your campaign’s strategic purpose and objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

What have you learned, Dorothy? She had to learn it for herself.” ” Tin Man: ”What have you learned, Dorothy?” I often think of the above exchange when foundations talk about learning. What have you learned? It also sounds less costly and complicated than evaluation.

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Kindful

JULY 8, 2021

Whether it’s a gala, golf tournament, marathon, trivia night, or online wine tasting, the number one thing that gets overlooked in evaluating event costs is the human capital required to produce the event. To get better at understanding the trust cost of an event, you need to evaluate the event’s return on investment (ROI). .

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

They have been some of the most insightful years in learning how RFPs are used and why most people dislike or even despise them. This includes what you want to see in proposals as well as a reasonable timeline: When do you want to receive, evaluate, and decide on a proposal? When do you want to start and finish the project?

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2023

Let’s briefly discuss what resources are needed to pursue grant funding and if your organization is in a position to do so. Do you have the evaluation expertise required to evaluate grant activities? Keep in mind, sometimes funds for the evaluation component will be included in your requested grant budget.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. Our review discussions became more interesting, and the impact of the entire program was strengthened. Here are a few lessons we learned along the way. Questions are critical tools for good grantmaking.

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