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. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. But, if you use reflection, documentation,pilot tests, and iteration, it is like tasting your soup while there’s still time to make adjustments. I use both.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 28, 2024

Nonprofits should create a detailed budget that accurately reflects the costs associated with implementing the proposed project or program. It’s also important to allocate sufficient funds for evaluation and monitoring activities to ensure the project’s success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

By evaluating factors like donation history, engagement levels, and specific interests, you can pinpoint individuals who are not only passionate about your cause but also likely to bring valuable skills and commitment to your board. Use Bloomerang to share updates, gather feedback, and keep your board in the loop at all times.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

This time from Travis Bradberry , author and Chief People Scientist, LeadX, “Digital transformation is not just about technology; it’s about people. Ensure a long-term commitment to the process by Incorporating EI into your organization’s values and performance evaluations. Ask questions that invite self-evaluation.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. Is this question relevant?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. Meanwhile, I’d like to offer my own recommendations.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 22, 2024

billion members, reflecting the number of records compromised. At the time, officials said the hackers were not able to access the company’s cloud operations, and only removed a subset of data from Blackbaud’s self-hosted environment. The post Class Action Denied In Blackbaud Data Breach Case appeared first on The NonProfit Times.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Most association CEOs would say that, from time to time, all three of the above are apt descriptions. And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. Respect for the group and their time. Those achievements reflect your organization’s quality and imply a standard of excellence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I entered the community as a foundation evaluator wanting to find the best strategies and tools for documenting and learning about networks but also for measuring those difficult-to-pin-down outcomes and impact. Evaluation can also help foundations get the feedback they need to modulate their role and influence.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. We continue to refine the data we use for training and evaluating our grants auto-coding system. The harmful impact of these early problems was clear.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 13, 2024

In part, the new name reflects five years of the organization welcoming females into its ranks. The BSA national organization emerged from Chapter 11 in April 2023, when a Plan of Reorganization called for it to establish a Victims Compensation Trust valued at the time at $2.4 Financial details of the arrangement were not available.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Design a program that reflects the customized service you want to deliver and the quality of outreach you want to produce. Use data to make objective decisions based on site traffic, evaluations, sales, professional development activity, focus groups and/or other types of outreach. Consider first-time speakers who draw a crowd.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Many nonprofit professionals will tell you that the answer is “time” and/or “resources.” Check out the following breakdown of offerings you may want to consider when evaluating fundraising solutions. Giving yourself time to get familiar with your new software. Do your due diligence by reading third party software evaluations.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

According to a study from Goldman Sachs, “Generative AI tools could impact 300 million full-time jobs worldwide, which could lead to a significant disruption in the job market.” For the time being, the bottom line seems to be, there is no substitute for intrinsically human skills. The nominees varied depending on the publication.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2024

They complete (or don’t) a new student orientation full of abstract ideas and inspiration and enroll full-time or part-time, online or in person. So, in considering whether students should complete their course of study at a community college, it’s essential to understand and accurately reflect what their enrollment intent is.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

It’s not difficult to evaluate when someone has the right background and experience to do a job. It may require more time and effort to find someone who complements your team. Your results can shine a flashlight into areas you may not have considered and be a mirror that reflects how your behavior impacts others.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. When was the last time your application was given a solid review? If it’s been more than five years, you’re behind the times. Your questions should also reflect your values as a funder. The world was very different then. Take it out.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As we close out 2023, you probably have some view into the impact your volunteers made, including how much time they worked and other basic information to share with others in your organization. Identify which reports accurately reflect your impact in the community and run those reports on a regular basis to identify important trends.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

I always think of winter as a time to gather data and plan for the year ahead, spring as a time to implement these strategies, summer as a time to allocate for additional resources and continue executing on the plan, and autumn as a time to reap the harvest and reflect on the year, looking towards planning for the winter and upcoming year.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Because the teams were not prepared at the year-end audit for these types of significant changes, there were often issues that required auditors to spend additional time in discussions with management or to document their understanding of the changes. This is especially important if there are audit findings.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. Grantee evaluation is a perennial hot topic in the foundation world, nonprofit evaluation is a lucrative industry in universities, and there is a whole high tech industry emerging to rate charities online led by Charity Navigator.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 19, 2023

It involves reflecting on the process, analyzing successes and challenges, and capturing valuable insights for future projects. Reflecting on a project allows organizations to identify missed opportunities––such as new products and platforms, untapped audiences, or alternative approaches.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But you also want to respect your grantees’ time and resources and avoid asking them for information that you don’t use or that they have already provided elsewhere. Or you can track the time it takes you to fill out the form, either with sample data or by trying to collect similar data from your own systems.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Her question stayed with me for a long time. Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. Qualitative yet empirically-based impact evaluation bridges the gap left by other evaluative methods providing the context of mission fulfillment for a nonprofit organization.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

It was a lot of learning in a short time-period and I’ll be unpacking and sharing it here on this blog over the coming weeks. Rather than start at the beginning, I’m starting at the end by sharing some tips for a formal reflection process that can lead to improving results of a project or event. The Process Steps in Detail.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Frankly, the search, evaluation, interview, and selection process can be very rigorous and time-consuming. At the same time, making a public statement that is not followed by congruent, well-aligned action will likely be viewed as performative contrition and will adversely affect public trust. . Investigate the budget. .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

At the end of a recent strategic planning retreat, each participant shared brief reflections on the day. One comment was particularly memorable : A long-time board member shared that, of all the board retreats he had attended, this was the best one. We have limited time together, which means we need that focal point.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Whether it’s online forms or direct meetings, let every step show that you value their time and interest. Consider using scoring rubrics or structured interview protocols to standardize evaluations and minimize bias to keep things equitable. Make them feel like they’re about to join something big. Welcome them aboard.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

I facilitated check-in meetings that fostered active engagement among board members, encouraging them to reflect on how their unique strengths could propel Candid toward its vision. At the same time, focusing solely on compliance can stifle an organization’s ability to think more creatively and strategically.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

.” The participants were a cross-disciplinary group and included people who work at different foundations in the areas of evaluation, communication, social media, and programs as well as people who work for nonprofits and as consultants who work in evaluation, social media, network analysis, data scientists, and others.

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Measure Social Media Foundation Reflection 101

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It’s Time For Philanthropic Billionaires To Share Power. No Time for Complacency: Preparing Foundations for a More Turbulent Future. Letting grantees lead: What we’re learning from the BUILD evaluation. The Power of Dialogue about Nonprofit Data and Evaluation. Evaluating a Culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

This is a terrific write up of the session I presented on “ Learning in Public “ Bridge Building or Trust Busting – a Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”? Packard and the TCC Group collaborated on an alternative approach evaluating the foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

And yet, the ability to use data to serve your association’s mission has never been more important and timely. In today’s world, organizations simply cannot afford to invest their time and limited resources in initiatives that do not demonstrably deliver outcomes that support their goals. Formulate SMART Goals.

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Candid

MAY 15, 2024

At the Honnold Foundation, we had been working in partnership with grassroots organizations for some time before we learned that there was a term for the kind of grantmaking we do: trust-based philanthropy (TBP). If a metric isn’t reflective of the impact they want to make, then why collect it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” It is more difficult when you have a short amount of time and a lot of content – and coordinating with other trainers. It worked, but it would be great to have more time.

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