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

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In my experience, the latter is the more common scenario. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. Updating roles is a good place to begin promoting the flow of knowledge, ideas, and information across your association. I’m not suggesting that you level the cake.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who owns the information collected?

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. How the sector understands and engages in knowledge work is crucial to the success of philanthropic efforts.

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10 Things to Look for When Evaluating a Grant Proposal

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A 10-page application doesn’t make sense—for the applicant or the reviewer—but you need enough information to know if you are making a good decision. Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. Organization Background and Experience.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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Although you’re probably not recruiting a team for an extreme experience, it can be helpful to begin thinking about team building from Bell’s perspective. “A It’s not difficult to evaluate when someone has the right background and experience to do a job. Strive to include a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and thoughts.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

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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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The Power of Learning Analytics: Maximizing the Impact of Your Education Programs

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Let’s dive into how learning analytics can drive engagement, improve course completion rates, identify gaps in learning programs, and optimize the learning experience. You can do this by implementing mid-course check-ins or post-course evaluations.

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