Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

GEO’s 2012 National Conference will offer a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and present opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Cindy Rizzo, Senior Director, Grantmaking and Evaluation, Arcus Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Nonprofits that scale up tend to employ this sort of “R & D” approach to concoct successful program recipes and establish success measures. They keep funders outside of the kitchen by pushing back with evidence of measurable achievement. These advances would be, as Martha Stewart would say in her own kitchen, “a good thing.”

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence. … But that was then and this is now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? Measure, Test, Refine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

It takes transparency and accountability to a new level where there’s no hiding the facts, and if framed and accepted well, will not be limited to evaluative determinations of success or failure, but will be celebrated for the learning and opportunity for course-correction that it provides. Learning in Public. Sounds pretty awesome, right?

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MARCH 16, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. “I The intermediary only pays the return on the investment for programs that work, based on the findings of independent evaluators.

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MAY 9, 2013

Similarly, the results or value of efforts we make in our fundraising can accurately be measured in numbers. Refer to Analyze This: A Nonprofit’s Guide to Event Fundraising Analytics by Convio and Event 360 for an excellent discussion of these key peer-to-peer fundraising metrics and more. Too often we equate effort with value.

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APRIL 24, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. We knew we would ultimately be in 16 countries by the year 2020, which meant that tracking, monitoring, and evaluating projects would become more complicated by the day. Read the rest of the issue when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]

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MARCH 16, 2016

As I mentioned in my previous two blog posts about the GMN 2016 annual conference , we asked conference attendees to respond to the following question: Where are you on your journey to measuring outcomes and impact? We need more evaluation and measurement as this is vital to moving a cause forward and the only way to improve.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. Isadora Faber, a 14-year-old Brazilian student, launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats.

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APRIL 1, 2016

We dove deep into data from the 2012 presidential race to provide fundraising insight you can use during the 2016 election year, including: The charitable giving habits of 400,000 political donors. How they were changed by the 2012 election cycle. Surprising demographics to target for outreach in 2016.

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APRIL 20, 2015

In just about any place you look today for advice on fundraising, overhead is being discussed. Some say it’s the wrong measure of a nonprofit organization’s success; others say it is the gold standard for measuring worthiness for support. I recently undertook research into the subject of overhead for my doctoral project.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an interview in the September 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Why is outcome measurement important, and how is an infographic like this going to help in that effort? Q: Tell us more about what you work on at The Knight Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2012

NTC 2012: Data Visualizaiton Panel. I’m here at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco this week. I am on a panel about measurement: Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers:Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. The Five Stages of Measurement Acceptance. What are the go-to tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. CERN (@CERN) July 4, 2012. Citizen Digital Engagement in Policy Discussions and Action. CMS : “we have observed a new boson with a mass of 125.3 ± 0.6

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