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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

How do you go about developing the technology skills of your staff? In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

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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How to Decide Which Fundraising Software Your Nonprofit Should Use

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Check out the following breakdown of offerings you may want to consider when evaluating fundraising solutions. An instructor travels to your place of business to teach you how to apply your new features to your existing processes, one-on-one. Do your due diligence by reading third party software evaluations. In-person training.

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How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Paul’s post unpacks some of the findings from the evaluation, but also raises some important questions about doing transformational capacity building. How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly. In a vacuum, it can be marginal. He can be reached at pconnolly@tccgrp.com.

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Performance evaluations are an imperative aspect of leading and growing. Evaluations should not be about power, judgment, blame or failure.

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What can we do together?

Candid

They typically don’t have formalized knowledge of fundraising but are eager to learn. And third, we see a number of individuals from established organizations who are looking for professional development or to learn new skills. My role is to contextualize those tools and teach customers how to best use them.

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

No matter what flavor of facilitation you put into your toolkit, there are some facilitator fundamentals and skills that facilitators need. These skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a meeting, workshop, or conference. Part 2 offers checklists and reminders for these basic skills. Facilitated Listening Skills.