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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

Performance measurement (PM) informs strategic decisions. To truly move the needle towards ameliorating social challenges throughout the world, we must revisit the efficacy of what has been measured and how. Use performance measurements sensitive enough to detect gradual changes so that small scale initiatives can be informative.

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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

As with previous research, the survey found that youth who volunteered reported gains in leadership skills (77%), career readiness (70%), and a sense of belonging (67%). The students also emphasized that service increased their sense of agency.

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Citizen Philanthropy: Delivering Impactful Pro Bono Support From Anywhere

Saleforce Nonprofit

Bringing skilled volunteers together in person with passionate and integrated local organisations around the world was how V2I worked towards their mission of helping global communities break the cycle of poverty. We began by working on an alignment process called “ V2MOM ”, which stands for: Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, and Measures.

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Do Capacity Building Programs Help Nonprofits Achieve Better Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We believe that any measurement of the impact of investment in strong organizations should ultimately come back to demonstrating the additional impact organizations are able to achieve after receiving this kind of support. The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment.

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Guest Post: Transcending the middle with a metrics mindset

Twenty Hats

Measuring volunteer impact benefits more that your program: it empowers YOU. So, get good at understanding values that can be measured. As we welcome more and more millennials into our work and volunteer forces, we’re seeing that they are not willing to tolerate mismanagement or lack of empowerment in their jobs.

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Goodwill is Leading Efforts to Help Get 1 Million People Employed Post-Pandemic

Saleforce Nonprofit

The organization’s incredible 94% awareness — a measure of brand familiarity — is a marketer’s dream. We’re in the business of self-empowerment and helping people find that through employment. The result is an even higher bar to get into the workforce and develop skills that prepare an employee for the future of work.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Some Data Therapy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the themes that came up is the gap in skills of citizens and nonprofits and the use of data. It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem.

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