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Research Friday: Does your nonprofit have an outcome-driven culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

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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Reflection and Evaluation

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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6 Tips for Analyzing Online Fundraising Campaigns

Bloomerang

Evaluate post-campaign data. For results that were higher or lower than your goals, what factors do you think impacted those outcomes? Once you’ve evaluated your campaign, start thinking strategically about your next campaign. Access your data. Run final reports after your campaign has ended, and all donations have been entered.

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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

John Hancock was approached by the mayor of Boston in 2008 with a collaborative opportunity that falls in the latter category. With all stakeholders, the program has the resources to drive their desired outcome on a large scale. This also allows John Hancock to be flexible with their funding allocations while staying on budget.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Effective Knowledge Transfer and Exchange for Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework, from Imagine Canada (formerly the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy), provides a framework to help nonprofits plan, conduct, and evaluate their efforts at knowledge transfer and exchange. Evaluation. logs and evaluation forms â??

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Guest Post by Anne Mai Bertelsen: Contests for Good - An Insider's View

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Those of us who have planned, executed and evaluated these types of contests for good on behalf of major brands have done so with the best intentions and not to “cause wash” — i.e., buy good brand karma under the guise of philanthropy. Just evaluating all the submissions can take many, many people hours.

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

Museum 2.0

They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. The project had fundamentally different outcomes for these participants, for whom impact ranged from science learning to increased social capital.

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