Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Jara Dean-Coffey discussed impact, with a focus on how organizations should be evaluative , rather than simply doing evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.".

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Moreover, funders, evaluators, and program managers can have different goals related to programs’ implementations. The challenge is developing the right evidence at the right time to evaluate the right areas. Lots of types of evaluation of effectiveness exist, from randomized control trials to smaller observations of impact.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2020

Your AMS solution should use the Salesforce Person Accounts data model. It’s important to select the data model for your Salesforce-based AMS that truly supports the way an association works. That’s why Salesforce developed the Person Accounts data model. Nimble AMS offers tools you won’t find anywhere else.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

It’s not a business model. . Develop a fundraising plan that includes fundraising goals and fundraising methods including grants, corporate and individual donations, and in-kind contributions. . Develop an evaluation and performance model. . Why is that important? NOT recruiting and maintaining board members .

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

With that, here are three starting points for activating DEI in your organization: Provide the tools Normalize feedback Evaluate and Reevaluate 1. Evaluate and Reevaluate As your team undergoes so much change, it’s important to hold regular reviews and a reevaluation of the values.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

To harness the full potential of performance measurement, funders and nonprofits must join together to co-create mutually beneficial methods and metrics. According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture. Performance measurement is not objective.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

One reason for this is the difference in the tool’s data models: UA relies on session-based data, while GA4 operates on an event-based model. Their costs can vary as well, and they have a variety of pricing models that may or may not work well for your organization. GA4 is a replacement for UA rather than an update to it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

And while this model is describing individual behavior, individuals make up organizations – so I think it is important for people working in organizations to understand, whether they are the executive director or the social media manager. Oftentimes, they fail because the previous steps have not been given enough thought or time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

models and web and mobile applications), and share these investments with existing sector associations. . Where possible, make transparent modeling decisions and use transparent data collection methods to allow others to pressure test for responsible use of your technology. . different demographics). .

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Qgiv

JANUARY 3, 2024

Text-to-give is a text fundraising method, similar to text-to-donate, that allows your supporters to donate to your organization using their cell phones via text messaging. Qgiv provides extensive reporting and analytics, allowing you to evaluate the effectiveness of your campaigns and make data-driven decisions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

It’s true that rigorous evaluation is critical, but right-sizing your evaluation is equally important. Sometimes, third-party evaluation, which includes rigorous study design and statistical analysis, is required to properly understand a program’s impact. In other words, one size doesn’t fit all.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Best of all, you really only need to adopt a few proven and productive cultivation and engagement methods to start converting your peer-to-peer event participants into monthly donors. For the Ration Challenge, the team used a variety of methods to pinpoint the personas and behaviors of those interested in refugee issues.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately. As part of a.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 15, 2022

First, let’s go over the basics of the main methods your organization can use as a part of your marketing plan. It’s important to record data to evaluate donor engagement and create new strategies for stewardship. Preferred method of communication. Core Nonprofit Marketing Channels. Donor Profiles and Records. When they donate.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 20, 2023

To do that, you need a method of accurately valuing the item you’ve been given. Methods for Valuing In-Kind Donations In-kind donations don’t (usually) come with a monetary value—you have to assess each of your gifts and assign one to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

There are a wealth of theories, ideas, and methods covered, for example the “ SAVI ” model for designing exercises that help learners embrace learning in different styles. This six-step instructional model is called “ENGAGE.” From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 30, 2017

The show you just watched on Netflix was evaluated by an algorithm before it was given the greenlight. The ability to see into the future sounds like magic, but there are actual methods that have been proven effective at doing this. Similarly, data science methods can help us engage in continuous learning.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

From traditional fundraising methods like membership drives and community events to embracing crowdfunding or corporate partnerships , your plan should include a variety of revenue sources that go beyond simply collecting membership dues. Periodic reviews shouldn’t be just a formality; they are an essential part of the strategic process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. . Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2020

What if organizations waited and took a more methodical approach? The success Aubrey has seen with the long-haul fundraising model she developed for fundraising and patron retention. How Aubrey is bringing the long-haul model to higher education. But is that the best approach for long-term success? It’s OK to be human.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Whatever you did, evaluation is in order to assess what worked, what didn’t and why. How does your business model incorporate today’s constituent perspectives? What communications methods will you use to reach them? How do you adapt your touchpoints model to create a transformative donor journey?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The Vera Institute (2015) offers this definition of social impact bonds: “In a social impact bond, private investors fund an intervention through an intermediary organization—and the government repays the funder only if the program achieves certain goals, which are specified at the outset of the initiative and assessed by an independent evaluator.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I’ll be doing a session with colleagues Danette Peters and Roberto Cremonini on Outcomes, Impact, and Communication where will not only share some case studies and techniques for outcome-based evaluation, but model some small group facilitation techniques for the process. LUMA Institute: March 19-20th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Evaluation. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training. Train the Trainers Model. Small Group – Making Posters. Design Labs. Full Group Interactive Exercises. Design Thinking As Instructional Technique. Innovation Facilitation Techniques. Participatory Facilitation Techniques.

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Classy

JULY 7, 2021

Nonprofits are embracing modern payment methods like digital wallets and Automated Clearing House (ACH) transactions. Remove the risk by allowing for the payment methods that complement today’s digital lifestyle. ACH isn’t the only aspect of a recurring giving model that produces long-term financial benefits for your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2011

It assumes that consumers start with a large number of products or brands in mind and methodically limit their choices until they’ve decided which one to purchase. After purchase, their relationship is focused on using the product. The traditional marketing metaphor for many years has been a Funnel.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

It’s inefficient, costly, and it means that nonprofits will always need to evaluate, at some point or another, when to leave one large platform ecosystem behind for another. But this is what nonprofits do: share research, community standards, methods of service, and more, to elevate the needs of shared constituencies.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2017

Although that plant was considered a model employer for refugees at the time, Jane met employees who included a former engineer from Iraq and a surgeon from Bosnia. UpGlo was able to support its rapid growth as an organization by enhancing its communications methods with GoToMeeting from LogMeIn (formerly Citrix).

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

You can evaluate where you’d like to go back to and spend more time. The upgrade approach is modeled after the Salesforce’s methodology of three product releases each year. I love going on cruises (seven so far and one upcoming). Adam Carey, Senior Director of Client Services, Salesforce Certified App Builder ? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I first met Juanita Brown who created the method through my blog in 2006. The last session used a classic trainer’s technique, a verbal evaluation of the day.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The agencies working on this site are attempting to assist charities in identifying good outcome indicators based upon evidence-based models that have been proven to work in specific cause areas. Keystone Accountability. is working to create a list of tools to help charities implement meaningful surveys.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 23, 2018

The Lean Startup method teaches you how to drive a startup: how to steer, when to turn, and when to persevere and grow a business with maximum acceleration. The implementation of innovation and adaptability is a business model that should not only be accepted but embraced by the third sector and its donors (members).

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

How do we get started? ” “ Is there a difference between measurement and evaluation? ” “ Is there a right way to define an outcome? Measurement vs. Evaluation. Evaluation looks at the effectiveness of a methodology, such as what is the best educational approach to prepare young children for kindergarten. Outputs vs. Outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Now many funders have funded measurement via third-party evaluations and as a result think they’ve funded measurement. The irony is that if nonprofits had good measurement systems in would enrich third-party evaluations and external rating approaches!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. This is evaluation.

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