Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

how board members can help drive attendance at your next big event. or focusing on refining your budget for the upcoming year, an agenda will help everyone stay focused on creating better outcomes for the organization. It helps push routine items along quickly so that your board has time to focus on more important things.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The March of Dimes is an example of a nonprofit whose original mission of serving polio victims was made obsolete by a vaccine. Netflix, number one on the list, is a good example of a company whose vision expanded as a result of an elevated purpose. That’s why they also deserve frequent exploration and evaluation.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 4, 2022

The data that you gathered from these events is a valuable asset to help inform your decision. Leveraging analytics will help you identify if there is value in continuing hybrid or online events for your organization. For example, you may have wanted to ask questions like: “What if we hosted our event for free?”.

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Hosting Virtual Analytics Associations 321

DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

A nonprofit technology assessment is an evaluation of the digital maturity of your organization. In that instance, a tech assessment would help you do so in an informed manner. For example, let’s say you’re a nonprofit with an effective CRM, online donation platform, and marketing software. Optimizing your current solutions.

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sgEngage

JULY 12, 2022

While there are many considerations for beginning (or expanding on) a grantmaker’s DEI journey, all organizations must prioritize the commitment from their leadership, their internal processes, and their grantmaking practices. 2. Internal Processes: Grantmakers Must Look Inward. 1. Leadership: DEI Starts at the Top.

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Application Grant Evaluation Practice 101

Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Mission-Driven Product Examples Products can be websites, but not all websites are products. Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedman’s Bureau helped formerly enslaved people transition to citizenship and documented millions of federal records relating to the refugees, freedmen, and lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War.

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Product Develop Impact Case Study 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And it was amazing to be at this meeting and see and connect with real examples of foundations struggling and succeeding with networks in ways that were just notions (yes, hunches) a few years ago. Evaluation can also help foundations get the feedback they need to modulate their role and influence.

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Evaluation Network Effective Case Study 95

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Perhaps making sure your co-workers do their part in helping make the project a success is also critical. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One crucial aspect of empathetic leadership is willingness – a willingness to help employees through their personal issues, recognizing that work and personal lives are becoming more and more intertwined. Leaders need to set an example and hold themselves accountable. You’re laughing, but we mean it. )

Leadership 118

Leadership Organization Culture Skills 118

Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. We continue to refine the data we use for training and evaluating our grants auto-coding system. The harmful impact of these early problems was clear.

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

For example, there are fewer quality online materials representing the viewpoints of certain racial groups. Examples in Practice Let’s say your nonprofit wants to use an LLM to help field questions on your website’s chatbot. Have frank internal conversations about priorities. Monitor and update.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

They appeal to those who may be interested in volunteering because they enjoy helping others or have a personal connection to the cause that the organization supports. For example, if a volunteer may to drive to serve the cause, that individual must have a good driving record. How your team collects and shares information internally.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

To efficiently provide this information, nonprofits need detailed financial records and real-time data to help gauge their progress towards their financial goals on both a monthly and annual basis and meet reporting guidelines. For example, your nonprofit might have a fund for scholarships. High-Level Requirements.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Doing everything , lacking the discipline to say no, and trying to be all things to all customers, both internally and externally. 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.

Leadership 91

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 91

Candid

MAY 15, 2024

We continue to implement this open feedback cycle, as it helps us ensure that HF’s fundamental approach remains rooted in trust and connection. By collaborating on what we measure, we make sure that the information helps all stakeholders and tells the story of both expected and emergent impacts.

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Philanthropy Proposal Application Metrics 52

Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2023

This checklist will help to recognize whether your organization should apply for grants now or focus on organizational growth to prepare for grant-seeking in the future. On the other hand, if your organization doesn’t plan to do the grant writing internally, do you have the financial resources to hire a professional grant writer?

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Grant Organization Proposal Evaluation 86

sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

For example, while many nonprofit organizations prioritize program development and delivery, they often overlook the importance of investing in their internal infrastructure, including leadership, management, operations, fundraising, and marketing, because it is not directly tied to program costs.

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Roles Foundation Leadership Community 78

DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Your nonprofit’s circumstances, whether internal or external, are always evolving. In this process, it can be particularly helpful to conduct a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning technique that involves evaluating your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

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Analysis Guide Nonprofit Retention 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Nonprofit teams have a lot on their plates: not only do they have to run their programs as best they can to help their beneficiaries, but they have to run their internal organization also. Moreover, funders, evaluators, and program managers can have different goals related to programs’ implementations.

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Impact Management Organization Evaluation 120

sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

This document will help new team members absorb your unique grantmaking process and keep everyone on the same page. Create a link to the guide anywhere that would be convenient for your team members to find, such as on your organization’s internal website or in a Links tile on your grant management system dashboard.

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Data Blackbaud Policy Database 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Even if you don’t have a lot of money to donate, every little bit helps. For example, Global Giving. If you want to do the research yourself, use charity evaluation sites like GuideStar , Charity Navigator , the Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance and Charity Watch. Where should be donate?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2022

One CEO of a local behavioral health and human service organization found value in program evaluation measures in his organization where there was no prior initiative to evaluate programs. Investing in a program evaluation department helped the leadership team develop a clear strategy with their first strategic plan.

Measure 52

Measure Culture Arizona Evaluation 52

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2022

Evaluate what the organization is currently doing to engage young people. Embrace diversity internally and externally. Leaders must explore internal and external shifts required to diversify an organization based on community needs. An AmeriCorps alum and recent inductee of the Nu Lambda Mu International Honor Society , Ms.

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Generation Wisconsin Milwaukee Donor 98

Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Good preparation up front helps to ensure good results. You’ll create tools to help narrow the field to the best match for you. 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.

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Forum One

JULY 18, 2023

Seeing the big picture Organizations partner with Forum One for cloud architecture: essentially a roadmap of your entire IT ecosystem and how overlapping, integrated cloud services and storage can help your operations run smoothly, securely and efficiently. Like all our work, this starts with understanding your mission and capacity.

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Organization Baltimore Picture Government 57

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Here are four ways that accounting software built for nonprofits helps you improve your compliance processes. When evaluating an accounting system for your nonprofit, look for a segmented chart of accounts and record-based subfund tracking capabilities. It’s front-and-center throughout the life of the grant—and beyond.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Whether involved in humanitarian response in conflict or disaster situations, development work, human rights, or peace-building, our international nonprofit customers have some of the most complex nonprofit missions on earth. Example: Forcing MFA when accessing reports. Learn more. Note: This uses “Event Monitoring”. Learn more.

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Practice Data Afghanistan Environment 120

sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Reviewing Internal Processes for Equity The first place to start is internally with your organization’s operations. As an organization that hires vendors to help with aspects of your day-to-day management, vendor selection is another way to be intentional about equity. How are you recruiting staff and volunteers? “We

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We’ve been through the RFP game countless times and have managed to learn a few things that we wanted to share in an attempt to help you through this frequently convoluted process. Here are the best examples, templates, and tips about the nonprofit RFP process. Scroll down to find RFP templates and examples.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

That’s why we’ve compiled three essential tips to help your team prepare for AI fundraising : 1. Fraud detection: Machine learning algorithms can analyze transactional data, donor behavior, and historical records to identify suspicious activities and flag fraudulent donations , helping protect your organization.

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Team Tips Fundraising Training 98

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. It helps us to adapt, adjust, and evolve amidst complexity. Learning and knowledge are intimately connected but are actually different.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 72

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Doing everything , lacking the discipline to say no, and trying to be all things to all customers, both internally and externally. 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.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

CauseVox

JANUARY 20, 2023

A SWOT analysis (SWOT = Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) is a strategic planning tool used to assess an organization’s internal and external environment. A SWOT analysis helps to identify opportunities for growth and impact, and anticipate and mitigate potential threats. A World Cafe method works well.

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Analysis Nonprofit Law Issue 79

sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2021

Here are some examples: User Interviews. Examples of questions include: How did you come to be involved with our organization? Data obtained from user interviews can be used to develop Audience Personas , to help guide design and content creation for your website/emails and to get ideas for improving events. A/B Testing.

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Method Research Test Analytics 76

Forum One

MAY 25, 2023

Assess your goals for the platform, re-evaluate why you’re there, and decide if it still makes sense to actively use your Twitter account. Does Twitter help us achieve those? For example, monitoring partner agencies or relevant organizations and public figures via Twitter lists can help you stay on top of what’s going on in your field.

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Government Twitter Social Media New York 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Another reason you need to embrace this type of strategy is because it will help you understand why your efforts succeeded or failed. Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages.

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