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

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Each of these issues could signal that a more streamlined organizational structure is needed. It’s a structure that preserves accountability.

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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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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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Choosing a Marketing Automation Application for Your Nonprofit: 5 Steps to Success

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Find trusted resources online that give you the ins and outs of each tool’s pricing structure. If your current configuration calls for you to manually transfer data, upload/download, or continually clone information from one system to another, you’re setting yourself up for a tedious time-suck and a chance for human error.

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. There are technology tools that can make information and data analytics accessible to everyone. Also from Forbes, customers retain 95% of the information they watch.

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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

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Here’s the good news: with preparation and a pulse on the right data and information, it is possible to get a handle on the task and get a big picture of your organization’s needs. An effective project charter will include the following information: What is the purpose of the project? Who are your key stakeholders and decision-makers?

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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

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So when I learned about Candid’s Demographics via Candid —an initiative that allows nonprofit organizations to share demographic information on their Candid nonprofit profile , where funders, donors, and researchers could easily access it—I was both intrigued and skeptical.

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