Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” Despite the difficulty of working measurement in a generic way, the output from sessions was quite valuable. Elizabeth R.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. ” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Formative Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 14, 2024

Present the most qualified candidates to the board after conducting extensive in-depth interviews and personality assessments and evaluations that best match the ideal position profile. It is also important to measure the candidate’s core leadership and personality traits as well. Will your compensation package be attractive?

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s also a valuable tool to help nonprofits evaluate their results by giving them a comparison point for their performance against organizations of similar sizes and issue areas. Barriers to Email Measurement Keep Rising Measuring email performance has changed, and it continues to become more difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Most nonprofits do not have the resources to hire one of these in-demand professionals nor do you see many funding opportunities to build this type of commitment to measurement and learning from data into a nonprofit’s DNA. ” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

To find the right product for your needs, the best place to begin is with requirements to help you evaluate alternatives. A written list of requirements is the starting point for evaluating accounting software options. You may want to use a spreadsheet to track how various products stack up in your evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Other areas include: communications, executive transition, evaluation/learning, networking/convening, and professional development. But, like anything else, to improve results, you need to measure it. My colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director. Presentation slides. My colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director.

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sgEngage

JULY 3, 2023

With quickly evolving community needs and the ever-present possibility of a climate event or economic downturn, nonprofits know how to be nimble. During times of crisis, it is important to take an informed, measured approach that supports the long-term success of your organization’s mission. Evaluate your current business model.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2023

Many organizations tend to provide a quick overview of how things are supposed to work without a proper system to evaluate their staff’s understanding of the proposed changes. Training as demonstration without evaluation is only an overview. The change is important enough to measure and monitor its performance. Excellence.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Whether the initiative is purchasing smart phones for staff or replacing your accounting system, measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) should be a key aspect of your decision. While "measuring ROI" may seem like a daunting task, it can be broken down into a few simple steps which are feasible for projects of all sizes.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

These challenges, however, present opportunities for innovation and positive change, including increased collaboration among funders, a focus on community-driven solutions, and a willingness to engage in difficult—and meaningful—conversations about privilege and power.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to SureImpact’s Primer on Nonprofit Impact Measurement , impact is “the quantifiable difference an organization makes … the collective effects (intended and unintended) of a nonprofit’s work on the communities it serves.” Evaluate and improve the effectiveness of programs and services. How Do You Use Impact Metrics?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I recently presented two academic research papers as part of my graduate studies. The Moderating Effect of Mission Statement Polarity on Performance , we used a package in the program R Studio to measure the emotional polarity of the 200 mission statements. . Below I’ll share what that research involved and what we learned. .

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

How do you measure the value of that experience? THE RESEARCH The challenge, of course, was to figure out how to evaluate the experience in a way that would help us identify the power of the project. I think most of us are familiar with interview and survey-based evaluation methods. A man walks into a museum. He shares a story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It can also be used to measure progress and keep the planning team focused. Ask the firms if how you present and organize information in your scoping document makes sense for them. A project charter serves as a compass to keep the team firmly pointed at goals established at the beginning. Ask for advice on how to improve it.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Strategic Goals and Objectives: Specific and measurable targets the nonprofit aims to achieve. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. Programs and Services: Description of the nonprofit’s activities and how they align with its mission.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

City Health Dashboard NYU’s Langone Health’s Department of Population Health developed the City Health Dashboard to share and compare data on 37 measures of public health across more than 500 U.S. Finally, product strategy can help teams evaluate how well they’re achieving their goals and course correct as necessary.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Gather Data on Your Current Application Before you present your suggestions to your leadership, have the data on your current application ready. Do you use it to inform your decisions, evaluate your outcomes, or improve your practices? How are you using each piece of data you collect from your grantees?

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Analytics is a strategic directive for many associations but there are many short-term returns that present themselves fairly quickly. Evaluate Your Opportunity Costs. Describe what you plan to improve and outline how you plan to measure it. This will align the organization by having clear success metrics and KPIs.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Ways to measure your efficiency and success within each . You can always provide post-presentation handouts with links for your audience if they want to dive further into the weeds on a particular topic. How to Measure Success. Experience Our Nonprofit Event On-Demand. How you can apply what our team learned to your next event.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Before beginning a full rebrand, it’s worth evaluating why your nonprofit is considering this in the first place. Next, consider what audience learnings you can surface using your nonprofit’s marketing analytics, such as email engagement metrics, website traffic measures, and social media performance.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I was familiar with using data from Candid to evaluate a nonprofit as a prospective employee or when considering giving a donation—I love digging into a 990 ! We then applied a statistical method called exploratory factor analysis to uncover themes that might be present in the data set. For our first project,?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Impact evaluation is the thrust indicators, providing measurement and evaluation of the performance. The authors have created a “Readiness to Scale Matrix” which includes five categories, presented with engaging visual metaphors to make it memorable. In other words, creating a strategic plan. Not in this book.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. We have some strategies for tackling this: convening diverse content advisors, incorporating anti-bias educational approaches in our design, developing participatory opportunities for visitors to connect past to present.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Measurement springs from many different motivations. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis? Is your measurement approach a way to manage your grants and portfolio? Are you required to measure?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. It was a comprehensive process including an open-call part 1, an invitation-only part 2, a site visit for finalists, and a presentation highlighting best practices.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media, online campaigns, and community engagement can be tricky things to dive into and do well without measuring, monitoring and evaluating. But what to measure? How to evaluate? Topic : Do-It-Yourself Community Metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. Only measure impact, not process. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Do numbers only matter? The only valid data is quantitative data.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

Debbie and Gary Carr , CEO of Third Sector Labs, co-presented. We were once asked to evaluate new technology options for a client. But we explained that we can’t evaluate tech options like a new CRM without first knowing what they needed to accomplish with the technology. We had also blogged earlier on the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

In his presentation Advancement Services - The Advancement Cornerstone? In his blog post on evaluating fundraising programs, Measuring Success The Buffett Way , Jason McNeil asks What measures might Warren Buffett use to evaluate development effectiveness? Support for Constituents.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition, the nonprofit evaluation services GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have teamed up on something called the "Overhead Myth letter." That's why Elizabeth says nonprofits shouldn't initially focus on measuring impact. Measuring impact is the last thing to tackle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I facilitated two programs for grantees of the Packard Foundation based on my book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit and designed and currently facilitating a peer learning exchange for the Knight Foundation for its community foundation partners that are hosting Giving Days. My Theme for the Year: Learning.

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