Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

From promotion to registration to golfer engagement, digital tools improve fundraising outcomes and make life easier for nonprofit tournament organizers. Many tournament organizers refer folks to the event website after the tournament to make a donation or see the results and outcomes.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Outcomes management is the journey your mission should travel in order to be useful to the world you wish to better. P erformance management is the discipline of making good decisions with data; it is the foundation for outcomes management. data culture Leadership outcomes management Strategy' Exponent Partners.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 22, 2021

Simply put, a call made today can result in another (and often larger!) Understand how your mental narratives affect your fundraising efforts and outcomes. Five ways you can greatly improve your fundraising efforts and results with just a few minutes of effort. Call your donors personally to thank them for their gifts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. The Outcome of Our Outcomes – guest post by Victoria Vrana. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. Content is easier to produce and more effective when all communicators understand the desired outcomes.” Don’t write outcomes in stone.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Especially in associations, analytics can provide invaluable insights, guiding strategies and shaping outcomes. Focus on the Outcomes Embracing the Future: We know change is hard and in long-standing organizations, can be met with resistance. However, the trick is to shift the conversation from the process to the outcomes.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Get the Right Answers, Discover Unique Perspectives, Deliver Exciting Outcomes We’re excited to launch Solutions Day 2023. Quick Takes—These 20-Minute Snap Shots for Smart Outcomes offer solutions to practical problems like these: We launched our new AMS. The November 2 event is designed to give a fresh take on the future!

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Candid

MAY 7, 2024

Impact,” “results,” and “outcomes” all refer to evidence that your program is effective and will be used interchangeably here.) Outputs: Outputs are different from outcomes ; they’re the immediate, direct products of your activities. Outcomes: Here is where you describe your program’s impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

4) Give outcomes. Nonprofit organizations can show donors the impact of their donations by linking dollar amounts to real-life outcomes on their websites, social media channels, and donation pages. Look, a donor can say to themselves, “my” tiger had a great year, and it’s thanks to my donation! Nothing feels better than that.

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Charity Village

MAY 7, 2021

Results show that between March 2020 and March 2021, boards became more effective, more collaborative, and spent more time on vital strategic issues than prior to the pandemic – and that the shift to digital board meetings was a primary facilitator of these outcomes. The survey included […].

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2016

From there I dug in to learn as much as I could about outcomes measurement and results from consultants, think tanks and other leaders in the field. What did I learn about outcomes and measuring results in those early days? Outcomes are changes in the behavior of, or the situation for, the program participants.

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Gyrus

JULY 13, 2022

Read why gamification in LMS gives better learning outcomes. Menial tasks where one just has to ‘get the job done’ often tend to feel uninteresting. However, when there is an element of competition involved, people naturally tend to outdo each other.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

That repositioning resulted in strategies that revolved around the physician, and it drove products and services in the same direction. Measure the Right Outcomes “In our case,” Garth noted, “we can measure statistics like do people have more confidence that their pets will be well cared for at the vet.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. Content is easier to produce and more effective when all communicators understand the desired outcomes.” Don’t write outcomes in stone.

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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 use low tech tools first – paper, markers, sticky notes, and sticky dots. Participants spend time working together to draw their networks — people and organizations who are important to reaching their organization’s outcomes.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We’ve tallied the number of hours served, rooms painted, pounds of food packed, children tutored, or books donated and then done our best to connect that to a nonprofit’s tangible outcomes. But after a volunteer engagement is over, it can be really challenging to assess the real impact of the project.

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John Kenyon

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In my work helping philanthropic and nonprofit organizations consider how to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools into their work, a pathway for good outcomes is emerging. We can start down the path without these, but having these in place – or working on them as you go – greatly improves the chances of positive outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

We have to look at what the result overall is – it is not just views for the sake of views or comments and likes for the sake of comments and likes. It is about how social media (and other digital tools I might add) help an organization move towards longer-term outcomes in their theory of change or articulated goals.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

However, increasingly nonprofits are moving to the practice of outcome evaluation. Program outcomes are defined as the expected and/or actual benefits that program participants will receive. Outcomes usually imply changes in behavior, condition, skills, attitudes or knowledge in the individual, community or other target population.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 18, 2023

As a result, national capabilities supporting readiness, mass care and individual assistance programs have significantly improved. We’ve always been particularly focused on partnership-building solutions where different agencies can work in their own specific ways— yet in concert with other agencies for collaborative outcomes for clients.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

" It means investing with purpose to achieve specific, measurable outcomes and impact. And I'm proud to say that over the past eight years, I have helped giving organizations shift millions of dollars to impactful, measurable giving and empowered them to tell their organization's results story. Blackbaud Outcomes.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Over the past several years, I’ve met with countless people at a wide variety of organizations to connect on outcomes measurement , and I tend to hear similar questions and qualms about this still-new area. “ How do we get started? ” “ Is there a difference between measurement and evaluation? ” “ Is there a right way to define an outcome?

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 16, 2024

However, corporate philanthropy leaders appear to be evolving their approach to place greater emphasis on tangible outcomes and less on inputs such as dollars given or number of employee hours volunteered. Instead, they’re looking for results. Corporate investment in social impact appears to show no signs of slowing down.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Track high-level insights to ensure programs are staying on track, dig deeper into comprehensive data across your programs, or take a closer look at a specific program, staff member, or participant’s outcomes. Learn more Stronger data, stronger outcomes "Here’s what I believe: do the work and the outcomes will show.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

As the giving sector and funders in particular become more and more results-focused, maybe you sometimes feel like you’re being plunked into unfamiliar territory. ‘I When you’re looking to launch a new outcomes-centered strategy , start with these three steps and sample scripts to ensure you’re heading in the right direction. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2013

In order to scale social justice outcomes, legal services needs to embrace the process of collecting and making sense of data to improve programs and get results. While most organizations are using technology to realize their missions, few are effectively measuring the results.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

Keep in mind that the more specific the model gets and the more specific the training dataset, the better outcomes you’ll find. The results? As previously mentioned, the more detailed information you put into the system, the better results you’ll get. The key to determining which tools to work with depends on your goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

We obsess about outcomes while neglecting to examine carefully the process through which we achieve them. Staats Staats recently shared his answers to these two questions: Question : Organizations and leaders often obsess over results, but you argue that process is far more important. We rush to answers instead of asking questions.

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fusionSpan

MAY 19, 2024

This holistic understanding of desired outcomes, experiences, and goals is at the heart of transformation. Sometimes this is a natural side effect of changing your tools and systems, but it can also be caused by the realization that current processes need to evolve to reach the outcome your team hopes to achieve.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2017

The world of philanthropy is transforming to results-focused giving. Tracking and measuring outcomes is no longer a nice to have or a buzzword, it is now imperative for fundraisers to embrace and communicate their organizations’ outcomes and results in order to stand out when competing for dollars and resources.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

It predicts outcomes and personalizes interactions with prospective donors. Higher Donation Amounts Moreover, data-driven donation requests have been shown to result in higher donation amounts. Predictive analytics use past data to predict future outcomes. It enhances fundraising and drives results.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Communicate outcomes. Grantors increasingly view themselves as investors and, as a result, place greater emphasis on outcomes reporting. When you are putting together your grant applications and reporting, you want to emphasize achieving the desired outcomes. Highlight your community. Keep the momentum going.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

But due to many common challenges to constantly reach new donors, retain existing donors, and increase operational efficiency the amount of effort to impact lives doesn’t always result in the high return it should. 5) Outcomes and Analytics. Outcomes matter. Are you able to measure outcomes that directly relate to your cause?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2024

Strategy is important because lists of sensible initiatives won’t compel customers to take the actions, we wish them to, which is why most plans don’t produce the outcomes that are desired. Lots of models that have developed and become dominant over time for thinking about business problems don’t produce the results that the models promise.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Discoveries are the “sharpening your ax” mode smart nonprofits invest in before taking a swing at technology challenges, and avoiding them can result in a big miss. Sometimes the best outcome is determining that “go” would be a bad decision – and the discovery gives you an “out” before it’s too late.

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2024

Casey Foundation ’s 2024 Race for Results report suggests that continued efforts are needed to address persistent disparities in child well-being. The Race for Results report series tracks how children across racial and ethnic groups are faring at the state and national levels on key education, health, and economic milestones.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2017

One of the most exciting parts of 2017 for me so far has been to see how many nonprofit organizations and foundations are becoming more and more passionate about outcomes measurement. And this got me thinking, how can we ensure that organizations don’t feel like they’re facing this outcomes measurement journey alone?

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