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To Scale or Not to Scale: What Should Nonprofits Consider Before Deciding to Expand a Program for Greater Impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

“Today, there may be no idea with greater currency in the social sector than ‘scaling what works’” (Bradach, 2010, p. For nonprofits seeking to expand their programs, careful analysis of self and environment are crucial. Organizations should examine their own structure and capacity. Who is involved?

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Can Stories Be Data?

NTEN

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change. And so it goes …….

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What Financial Transparency Practices Can Nonprofits Use to Develop Consistent Procedures?

ASU Lodestar Center

If the board does not understand what is actually happening financially, they are not equipped to evaluate what course of action is the most appropriate to take in order to either continue in the current trajectory or to begin to change course. Since 2010, Mamie has focused specifically on financial operations of wealth management firms.

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Nonprofit Website Effectiveness

Connection Cafe

These top five lessons serve as a good starting point for evaluating the effectiveness of your organization’s website. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Evaluating Your Website’s Effectiveness. Your website content needs to be structured in a way that meets the information needs of these different audiences.

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Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it. Now the security issue.

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[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

Bloomerang

It’s just a structured approach walking you through and it’s not necessarily, you know, the where all be all. And that starts kind of with a readiness assessment and a gap analysis. That’s our internal evaluation of are they even ready? We didn’t invent this. One from Holly. Doing the silent phase.

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Why Apple isn't the Nonprofit App Grinch | Nonprofit Trends with.

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All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. But, here's what I think.

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