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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 decides what is measured?

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6 Tips for Analyzing Online Fundraising Campaigns

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However, I encourage you to take some time to analyze your online fundraising campaigns to optimize your overall fundraising results. Of course, analyzing your fundraising campaigns starts with accessing data from your online fundraising software. Evaluate post-campaign data. Access your data. Analyze during the campaign.

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How to Conduct an Honest Mid-Year Fundraising Evaluation

Get Fully Funded

When you’re halfway through the year, it’s a good time to conduct a midyear fundraising evaluation. A midyear evaluation will show you how you are doing and highlight areas where you need to improve. And you’ll know exactly how much you need to raise during that season if you take the time to do a midyear evaluation now.

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Blackbaud Luminate Online® Benchmark Report Highlights

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The 16th annual Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmark Report is here! 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. We look forward to this report every year.

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Evaluating Event Formats: In-Person, Virtual, or Hybrid

Nonprofits Source

To help simplify your nonprofit event planning processes , this guide will evaluate the three most popular event formats: in-person, virtual, and hybrid. For example, if you’re hosting a sports fundraising event , you can supplement your event with an online fundraising site to help you maximize support. Greater outreach.

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Strategies to utilize your online community platform for better board management

Nimble AMS

Rather than task an employee with more work , your organizati on can l eve rage innovative association management software (AMS) with its online community platform to streamline board management. Using your AMS and online community empowers board members and leadership teams to work smarter, move faster, and achieve more for your association.

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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.