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

ASU Lodestar Center

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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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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4 Steps to Implementing Your Social Change Strategy: A Case Study with SEFCU

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Since 2008, SEFCU’s Community Support Program has helped more than seven million people within its branch footprint – which includes upstate New York’s Capital Region, Binghamton, Syracuse and Buffalo areas – through funding vital nonprofit organizations. Monitor outcome progress throughout the grant term. with more than $3.7

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

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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.

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Research Friday: Battling Domestic Violence with Data

ASU Lodestar Center

Between 2000 and 2008, this revenue mix provided stability and the opportunity to grow, due to gradual increases in overall government funding. So, for reasons that are driven by their mission and their funders, the “shelter-based” business model has come to dominate this sector.

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Social Impact Investments

ASU Lodestar Center

Recent trends in philanthropic giving indicate that the new generation of donors has a high interest in ensuring that their donations generate outcomes (Flandez, 2012). Though the practice is decades old, the term was only coined in 2008, making it a relatively new field of study.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Modeling: As we’ve previously pointed out, it’s hard to define what AI is, and if you accept a wide definition of AI then it has been in use in eLearning for a while. We like that idea, and we agree that you need to provide many different pricing models. Peak of Inflated Expectations.

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