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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

For example, Simone works for an evaluation organization. Their mission is to provide knowledge and expertise to help nonprofits and funders learn from their work to improve their results. The case goes like this: We want to provide knowledge and expertise. For more Salt-n-Pepa Lyrics, check out this Youtube video.

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Great reads from around the web on June 6th

Amy Sample Ward

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." " Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings | Official Google Blog – "Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons.

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Leading with Accountability: What Accountability Strategies are Critical to Foster Nonprofit Donor Support?

ASU Lodestar Center

Preventative measures such as performance evaluations, self-regulation policies, effective donor communication approaches, ethical leadership, and social auditing serve as accountability enforcers in various capacities within an organization. Performance evaluations serve as vehicles to message organizational mission realization and impact.

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2011 NTC Preview: A Scientist in Your Communications Department: Segmenting Messages, Customizing Content and Delivering Results

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In market segmentation, you evaluate your overall donor and constituent base and separate them into smaller groups based on similar characteristics. The language that you use can point to this knowledge: “Our renowned Foundation researcher, Dr. Smith, is signing her latest book at the Borders right in your backyard.”

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What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now many funders have funded measurement via third-party evaluations and as a result think they’ve funded measurement. The irony is that if nonprofits had good measurement systems in would enrich third-party evaluations and external rating approaches!

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What Best Practices Exist in the Nonprofit Sector to Improve Operational Effectiveness and Achieve Greater Impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Meaningful tools to evaluate effectiveness are largely absent (Liket and Maas, 2015). This means an increased demand for more and better evaluation (Renz and Murray, 2010) is needed. Nonprofit organizations should identify evaluation methods to assess their programs and organization effectiveness on an ongoing basis.

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Research Friday: Social Impact Bonds: A New Tool for Scaling Impact

ASU Lodestar Center

This kind of phenomenon can be seen in a 2011 joint report from Social Finance, Inc. The intermediary only pays the return on the investment for programs that work, based on the findings of independent evaluators. Outcomes were evaluated based on the number of times the ex-offender was reconvicted. The Role of Evaluation.

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