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Helpful Ways to Measure and Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Performance

sgEngage

Data analysis tools are helping organizations of all sizes to automate, streamline, and standardize processes so they can measure and optimize performance. Outcomes” is often used interchangeably with impact, but it’s most helpful to think of outcomes as a change in skill, knowledge, attitude, behavior, condition, or status.

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Learn MBA Skills In 12 Weeks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The 12-Week MBA ’s unique premise is that business leaders in any industry, any function, and at any level need the same core knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effectively manage and lead.

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Why nonprofits should deploy artificial intelligence to achieve fundraising success

ASU Lodestar Center

Natural-language processing. Natural-language processing (NLP) refers to the capability of AI to understand the text and the spoken word. Sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis refers to the capability of AI to analyze and determine the emotion of written text or spoken word. AI fundraising.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help participants self-assess their skills or attitudes by seeing aggregate data on the screen together and have it be catalyst for reflection.

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Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report lays out some new metrics for movement building – that are paths to the more easily counted tangible results and where the unit of analysis is the movement or network, not an organization. Research and policy analysis. As the report points out, movement organizers are grappling with big questions. Civic engagement.

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Nonprofit Market Research: What It Is & How To Get Started

DNL OmniMedia

What is a market analysis for nonprofit organizations? Market analysis, also known as market research, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information about target markets and customers. We’ve seen firsthand the power of nonprofit market research and are sharing that knowledge in this comprehensive guide.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. It is really important to pay attention to body language (discomfort, confusion, boredom, etc.) I feel strongly that to keep audiences engaged, they have to be moving.