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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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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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. It is tempting to think of this step as only doing a survey to answer the questions, “Did the workshop accomplish its objectives? Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

As a grantmaker, questions are your tools. But are you asking the right questions? We will also give you seven questions to ask yourself about your questions, to make sure they are relevant, clear, respectful, and useful. Why Change Up Your Questions? Does this question reflect the mission of my organization?

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Candid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The data set is a goldmine for researchers and evaluators interested in better understanding the demographics of the nonprofit sector. It also offers suggestions on when researchers and evaluators may want to choose one method to access the data over the other. And perhaps even more exciting, it’s also free to access.

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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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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. But before you start randomly lobbing questions at participants, we have a few tips that will help you improve the process.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

At this point, the question isn’t whether to use tech but whether your tech stack is configured in a way that positions your organization for success. A nonprofit technology assessment is an evaluation of the digital maturity of your organization. Prepare questions for your consulting team. Step Two: Analysis & Strategy.

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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 best way to answer these questions is to measure and analyze consistent data. The importance of data Data helps make the case for increased investments in racial equity.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. In-person discussions should occur both formally and informally before and after new members are welcomed to the board. The MBTI provides an opportunity for people to discuss communications and behavior preferences. A calendar of events.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. Where is that information stored?

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Build Map Platform Integration 59

AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. But before you start randomly lobbing questions at participants, we have a few tips that will help you improve the process.

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Survey Virtual Question Sponsor 59

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

That’s why we start out by asking this question: “What are the most important conversations for this group to be having right now?” . So we start with that question, and we keep asking it along the way. If there’s any doubt throughout the day about how to move forward, we go back to that question. .

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Product Effective Tips Evaluation 97

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

At the plenary panel discussion, a woman from the audience, an arts teacher, asked, plaintively, “Why do we have to justify the arts in school? Her question stayed with me for a long time. Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. Evaluation can be painful.

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

Examples in Practice Let’s say your nonprofit wants to use an LLM to help field questions on your website’s chatbot. Here are some tips: Discuss values upfront. Rigorously evaluate an LLM or AI’s performance across sensitive demographics before anything else. Have frank internal conversations about priorities.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria. Ask behavioral and situational questions to get a better understanding of the candidate’s role compatibility. This could be a panel interview for a more comprehensive evaluation or an interview with a different department head for an additional perspective.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria. Ask behavioral and situational questions to get a better understanding of the candidate’s role compatibility. This could be a panel interview for a more comprehensive evaluation or an interview with a different department head for an additional perspective.

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Strategy Interview Skills Retention 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

You’ll also be well-prepared to have in-depth discussions with prospective vendors and can make better decisions about which of them will be the right one to help you execute your organization’s web redesign project. Do they have budget or timeline questions that could help them better prepare a bid for you? About the Author.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Information is all around us. Data is a decision.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

Good questions to ask your team: What kinds of partners have we retained/lost over the last 3+ years? During the discussion, use the following business principles to assist in your evaluation: Churn Rate: Churn rate in its broadest sense is a measure of the number of customers moving out of a collective group over a period of time.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As leaders, sometimes we need to pump the breaks and evaluate things from a different perspective. Some questions I ask myself: Does the purpose of this new technology align with our school mission and strategic plan? Please join me in a discussion to learn more about innovation creep, school software, and data management.

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Denver Software PowerPoint Template 77

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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Grant Money Strategy Evaluation 104

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask. Generative AIs have the power to transform education.

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Generation Education Blackbaud Model 93

sgEngage

JUNE 12, 2023

Evaluate users’ security access Each user of a system is provided with a username, a password, and the exact access rights they need to accomplish their daily tasks – at least, that’s what we hope! The answers to these questions can point the administrator in the right direction for what access rights the user needs. Potentially.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Online support: Add AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants to your website to answer frequently asked questions, process donations, and provide donors with round-the-clock support. To mitigate this, work as a group to evaluate AI outputs across different demographic groups and address disparities.

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Team Tips Fundraising Training 98

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Evaluating your organization’s potential new brand identity. Come up with the questions you’re going to ask. . Allow plenty of space within the discussion for all voices to be heard. . Actively encourage a very critical evaluation. With that in mind, when should you hold a nonprofit focus group? Invite the participants.

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Candid

JULY 26, 2023

Prepare with time on your side Once you’ve scheduled your meeting, evaluate your conference room and technical setup. Get an idea of what’s needed by asking yourself questions like: Will this meeting have one presenter the whole time, or will it be a larger group discussion?

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2023

First, this was discussed in reviewing our employee handbook, where our benefits and expectations are outlined. It even came up in yearly evaluations and manager check-ins. Some of the most interesting planning was the work we did as a full team driven by the places where staff had questions.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Fundraising Data: The Secret Weapon for Event Success During the Greater Giving hosted webinar Data-Driven Events: Elevating Fundraising Success , Stephen Kilbreath and Julianne Read of Kilbreath Events discussed the power of data-driven fundraising. Ask lots of questions of your data to get answers that will help you. Get curious!

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. Evaluation matrix . You’ll also want to create an evaluation matrix—sort of a scorecard—so you can compare your candidates with more objectivity.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

THE RESEARCH The challenge, of course, was to figure out how to evaluate the experience in a way that would help us identify the power of the project. I think most of us are familiar with interview and survey-based evaluation methods. This was used to evaluate the amount of emotional energy dedicated to the jar activity.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Let’s discuss how you can adjust your goals to regain momentum and set the tone for the remainder of the year. Sample SMART fundraising goals Reflect on Your Focus Areas Begin by asking yourself some key questions related to your goals and focus areas. How have things been coming along? Have you encountered new obstacles?

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VQ Strategies

JUNE 22, 2021

For a skilled, high-impact volunteer role, questions such as those below can be addressed in your first meetings together. Which questions can they answer on their own and which issues require a check-in with leadership? Discuss how to evaluate the assignment. Who has responsibility for which results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . One of the newest resources, a free online guide called “ The Data Playbook ,” was recently published by the Schusterman Foundation and written by Rella Kaplowitz, Program Officer, Evaluation and Learning.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article will discuss several key points to help you make an informed decision, covering topics such as open-source vs. closed-source platforms, software costs, licensing methods, and more. Product Maturity: Evaluate the CMS’s reputation, support availability, and roadmap projection. Total Cost of Ownership.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Moreover, this work has been underfunded and its analysis happens often away from C-suite or Board discussions. It’s true that rigorous evaluation is critical, but right-sizing your evaluation is equally important. In other words, one size doesn’t fit all.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Giveffect, for example, offers online applications with options to customize fields and questions. Create opportunities to ask open-ended questions to continue learning about their skills and interests and ask for feedback within your communications to improve your programs. The information is stored securely and is easily accessible.

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