Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Beth Kanter tweeted about an article by Gale Berkowitz relating to evaluation, which I found really fascinating – it is a must read. to evaluation for program improvement (“What did we learn that can help us make the program better?”). To me, evaluation, both internal (&# how could we have done this process better?

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Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

If you’re looking for ways to evaluate your current agendas and optimize them for efficiency, you’ve come to the right place! They can come with insights and comments, rather than having to go over each document as a group and wasting everyone’s time brainstorming on the spot. Whether you’re strategizing about.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 22, 2024

Plaintiffs no longer make this argument in their Response in Opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Exclude Curtin’s Report and Testimony.” * “Curtin’s method is unreliable and unhelpful to this Court in light of Curtin’s failure to provide an error rate for this Court to evaluate. … billion putative plaintiffs.” . … billion purchase price.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. My colleague Joanna Pineda, Founder, CEO, and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International, Inc. It’s a good idea to include people from outside your organization’s playing field who can introduce a different point of view and push the group forward.”.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Groups spend hours crafting these statements; so, we think of them as foundational. That’s why they also deserve frequent exploration and evaluation. Create Community Shared values are important for any group, but they are especially powerful for an association. That win would be a no-brainer for anyone reading this post.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. An advisory group and planning group gave crucial input about the strategy and tactics for this event. Both groups can help by: .

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

Scan the Landscape Internal collaboration is important, but it is only the beginning. Encourage them to explore and bring new ideas to the group. Martech changes overnight. You need multiple eyes scanning the digital landscape to stay abreast of current and emerging trends.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 16, 2024

Blackbaud’s largest shareholder, Clearlake Capital Group, has made another offer to take the fundraising and tech firm private. stake in Blackbaud, according to data from the London Stock Exchange Group. International financial services firm Baird now projects that a stock deal might go to $90 per share. per share in cash.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2023

Accurately measuring the performance of marketing efforts is crucial for nonprofits to evaluate and optimise their strategies to make the most of precious resources. There are a couple of key pieces of information nonprofits need to evaluate their online marketing efforts: How people arrive at their website.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

We continue to refine the data we use for training and evaluating our grants auto-coding system. Misclassifying sensitive population groups results in an incorrect understanding of the work being done in the sector, who is being served, and where grant dollars are still needed. The harmful impact of these early problems was clear.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

However, nonprofits are guided by a mission- like providing education in under-served areas, supporting research to find cures to diseases, creating community among a specific group of people, and more. For international organizations, you may face additional complexity such as handling multiple currencies and multiple languages.

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

For example, there are fewer quality online materials representing the viewpoints of certain racial groups. AI picks up biases against those groups. Have frank internal conversations about priorities. Rigorously evaluate an LLM or AI’s performance across sensitive demographics before anything else.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. They should put internal controls in place and help write policies to prevent loss, theft, or confusion, using current b est practices.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

I define community leadership as “any person or organization who engages individuals or groups within a particular community to collectively establish goals, guides them toward the achievement of those goals, thereby achieving a civic outcome.”

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Media Cause

AUGUST 19, 2023

By conducting a comprehensive review of the project closure and lessons learned, org anizations can uncover opportunities for improvement––such as enhancing internal collaboration and workflow, addressing vague direction and feedback, and establishing better-defined roles and responsibilities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2022

Younger individuals from the Millennial generation, as well as some from Gen X and Z groups, will soon become the lifeblood of the nonprofit sector – being transitioned nearly $30 trillion over the next 20 years from their predecessors, the Baby Boomers. Evaluate what the organization is currently doing to engage young people.

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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. Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Once you have a core group of volunteers, word-of-mouth can be one of your best channels for finding new volunteers. Process Volunteers: Now that you have individuals or groups interested in volunteering with your organization, it’s time to get to know them. How your team collects and shares information internally.

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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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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Some solutions like Blackbaud Grantmaking even have a batch update tool that enables users to make global changes to a group of records. 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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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

There are currently 143 Trailblazer Community Groups worldwide. The data in this report comes from the 2022 Customer Outcomes Survey; customer interviews; customer and employee surveys focused on pro bono support, Impact Labs participation, and Community Sprint participation; and internal Salesforce.org data. About the Authors.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They are judged by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), a diverse group of social impact leaders and experts who are all working to rebuild our world, and this year there were nearly 2,000 submissions from 44 countries around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

Note from Beth: I’m honored to be a member of the Leap Ambassadors Community , a group of people in the nonprofit sector who care deeply about high performance. As a member of the NTEN Board, I used this framework to help us work through our performance evaluation process. Experimental impact evaluations are too expensive.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

That internal focus has been intentional and deliberate. Through an internal compensation review, as well an external one to benchmark against market rates, we are actively evaluating our current salary structures to ensure that they are equitable across the organization. Discipline working groups. Staff manager training.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Bridgespan Group reminds leaders that “cross-sector collaboration is a complicated and time-consuming process, given the complexity of the issues and range of stakeholders involved.” They are setting the stage for transparent communication when evaluating compatibility and complementary “value exchange between partners” are in effect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

One of the simplest ways to practice continuous improvement is to incorporate a process evaluation. And, of course, your evaluation will also include looking at the data from surveys and interviews with participants after the event. We used a private group on What’s App to do this during the event so it was simple to capture.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

To mitigate this, work as a group to evaluate AI outputs across different demographic groups and address disparities. Workflow optimization: Allow staff to automate day-to-day tasks with AI, such as internal communications, donation processing, and data entry.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 28, 2021

Each year, we speak with a group of customers who represent the diversity of region, size, and experience among our customers. Internally, you’re going to need that, too.” Futureforce Intern, Salesforce . Julia Cosgrove is a Futureforce intern working in Strategy and Operations. And that’s on both sides.

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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. Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Just under half (47%) of surveyed customers reported that they are better able to evaluate the effectiveness of their work and programs due to their use of Salesforce, which is up from 42% last year. There are currently 136 Trailblazer Community Groups worldwide. Director of Measurement and Evaluation at Salesforce.org.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

However, I can share what we are doing at Candid to address today’s ever-changing Twitter landscape and the decision-making process behind our current thinking—with the hope this information can help you evaluate your nonprofit’s approach to a future presence on Twitter. Communicate with internal stakeholders about what is happening .

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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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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. Strengths The internal factors that give an organization an advantage over its competitors. This is best done in small groups so as to encourage honest feedback.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

If it’s time for you to start looking for a new grant management system, use this opportunity to evaluate your processes, figure out what needs to change, and find a solution that can growth with your organization. Will you make the shift from internal reviewers for your application to tapping people from outside your organization?

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Allegiance Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

At Allegiance Group, when we talk about fundraising writing, we focus primarily on direct mail and email appeals directed toward individual donors. ” One answer to this critical question is: Evaluate the strength of your appeal copy. ” One answer to this critical question is: Evaluate the strength of your appeal copy.

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Volunteer Hub

APRIL 3, 2023

Matthew: I will upfront, I evaluated seven or eight different volunteer management companies, it wasn’t just VolunteerHub. Group Manager is huge, the less emails that partners have to send the better and Group Manager streamlines the process for our internal contacts.

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