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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

I was familiar with using data from Candid to evaluate a nonprofit as a prospective employee or when considering giving a donation—I love digging into a 990 ! Then we used a random number generator to select which of those records would be pulled into our nonprofit mission statement studies’ sample. .

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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: Preparing for the Selection Process

Bloomerang

Here’s my advice for finding the right consultant for your nonprofit. . This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. Evaluation matrix . You’ll find some sample matrices here.

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What Does an eLearning Consultant Do? The Complete Guide

Forj

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs. They provide advice and guidance to help elevate your learning business, which your team would then put into action.

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Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think They Should Do Their Work!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, as much as we can, we’ve tried to do this in public—sharing our thinking online in real time and asking grantees, colleagues, and the world at large for their feedback and advice. Ongoing advice and feedback from a group of six informal advisors inside and outside the Foundation.

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The Cost of Free Technology for Nonprofits: Thoughts On Ning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His post sparked a community plea to Ning to keep its service free for grassroots nonprofits and community groups and Amy Sample Ward also wrote about it. Evaluate your community: are you reaching a diverse community or operating in a silo? Start a Petition ».

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New Study: How Much Money Do Peer-to-Peer Fundraisiers Raise For Charity?

Care2

In the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere , that I co-wrote with Amy Sample Ward of NTEN, we disucss the pyschology of fundraising. This steady growth of peer-to-peer fundraising is a good sign for nonprofits, and Blackbaud asks you to consider a few insights to really evaluate the giving within your own organization. Does it work?

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Maybe it isn’t even money, but feedback or advice, maybe an introduction or volunteer time. There have to be other criteria for defining and evaluating innovation. People believe in their contributions. Even if it is just $10, they really believe that it is enough. People believe you should listen to them. We can’t only invest in new.