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How you can foster sustainable innovation within your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time. The goals must be SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and measurable). This data is how we measure our impact.

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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

Data collection focused on the largest 800 funders nationally plus the top 25 grantmakers in each state and Washington, D.C., as measured by total giving. 2020-present – Entering adulthood As Candid’s grants data has come of age over the past few years, we’ve changed some of our data collection methods to adapt to changing realities.

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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. She gives a seven step framework for measuring the ROI of relationships.

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How AWS and Salesforce.org Help Nonprofits and Education Institutions Improve Data Management

Saleforce Nonprofit

It represents people who are making measurable differences in communities and those whose lives are being changed. . While more data presents great opportunity, it also comes with new challenges to manage that data and visualize insights. The Urban Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based,

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Weekly Event Round-Up (Sept. 22-28)

NTEN

Also, are you attending an NPTech-related event this month? Check out this page to see where NTEN will be in the community this month, we''d love to link up with you. Community local events nten'

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

The Corps Network / Washington, DC / TBA. 2019 Washington Nonprofit Conference. 2019 Washington Nonprofit Conference. DMA Nonprofit Federation / Washington, DC / TBA. National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) / Washington, DC / $449. Annual Washington Nonprofit Legal & Tax Conference. Feb 10 - 13.

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Social Media Benchmarking: Gauging Success for Project and Organizations in Global Health and Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar.

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