ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In 2018 analysis by Ben Gose , a reported 57% of nonprofits doubted their ability to continue meeting demand, motiving many nonprofit leaders to consider collaboration with other nonprofits and across sector lines in order to increase organizational capacity. Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

In Hartford, I had challenge of a large number of participants, a “master class” type set up, and but a room and time constraints that limited the amount of full group interactive exercises. I experimented with using the polls as part of the opening exercise in the workshop. I did not have a remote audience. Conference. Stay tuned.

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Interaction Audience Poll Tools 81

NetWits

AUGUST 21, 2012

From the Audience Analysis exercise you will have a long list of user tasks for each audience segment. Start evaluating the strategic value of the visual hierarchy by doing the following: • Look at the largest visual element on the page. Take a look at your homepage.

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Action Websites Design Voice 205

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. We did a classic brainstorming/SWOT analysis exercise related to our topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. This is evaluation.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 8, 2022

They point out that if you calculate your ROI for an annual fundraising program the same way every year, you will have an effective comparative way to evaluate its effectiveness. And, with that sort of analysis, you’ll be able to tinker with your model and see what works over time. Capital Campaigns and ROI.

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ROI Campaign Gift Metrics 73

BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

The process of researching and selecting potential partners is not a difficult exercise but requires adequate sector experience, time, and resources. Evaluate each nonprofit on the list and determine the best candidates. Conduct a financial analysis of each nonprofit (and of your organization).

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New York Collaboration Nonprofit Analysis 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Packard and the TCC Group collaborated on an alternative approach evaluating the foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program. All evaluation data was posted on a public wiki. Otherwise, the whole exercise can end up being frustrating. You may get participation because you’re a funder doing the asking.

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Reflection Public Learning Build 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis. Help participants unpack a lot of potential topics to address.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Beyond Return on Investment figures, professionals everywhere can evaluate the true reach and effectiveness of their learning programs. This practice and the particular application has changed the way small market teams compete in the major leagues and thus has made this recent postseason a possibility for my preferred team.

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Learning Organization Statistics Cleveland 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

There are a wealth of theories, ideas, and methods covered, for example the “ SAVI ” model for designing exercises that help learners embrace learning in different styles. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. It can help people learn faster and in a more fun and natural way.

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Training Train Technology Instructional Design 114

sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. . For example, one collaboration’s gap analysis revealed that a city’s private funders offered minimal support in the areas of health and drug addiction prevention.

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Collaboration Foundation Local Philanthropy 95

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Tags: presentation webtools analysis community mapping listening notes tools webinar women womenwhotech.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As you consider these questions, here are two important exercises that will help you clarify your vision and goals: 1. Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. How will you evaluate your results and measure impact? What need will you address?

Nonprofit 111

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

Such programs predominantly include addressing homelessness and food insecurity, as well as improving nutrition and exercise. Respectful, partner-centered philanthropy that includes community members in conversation from grant initiative conceptualization through evaluation. Lessons Apply To Independent Foundations, Payers.

Community 35

Community Grant Foundation Homeless 35

Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Often not, but the exercise of trying to do so is often worth the effort. Set the expectation with stakeholders that undocumented requirements won’t be considered to facilitate a thorough analysis of the actual business process and outcomes to be supported. Development approach. What about development environments and tools?

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Build API Evaluation Exercise 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes. After we had all the sticky notes on the board, we had generated a landscape analysis from the grantee’s point of view.

Design 50

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 22, 2023

33 Perfect Exercise Captions for Instagram by Julian Lavelle, Blackbaud A single, successful social media post can drive major traffic to your exercise-for-a-cause. Take a look at 10 troubling observations of the state of fundraising today and how to ensure you have a strategy to counter them.

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Blackbaud Exercise Proposal Gift 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

It would be unfair and misguided to evaluate the success or failure of a technology project based on this one financial measure. Would love some examples or perhaps this is the exercise I give to participants. POP QUIZ: True or False The ROI Methodology collects just one data item, a financial ratio, expressed as a percentage.

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ROI Measure Ratio Benefit 74

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2017

I believe that MGFBS in combination with this little exercise point out the dilemma and unintended consequences when we don’t understand “What’s a major gift?”. Veritus Group, a major gift consulting firm, has published a very useful article on evaluating and rewarding major gift officer performance. .

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Gift Strategy Benchmark Arts 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. A good exercise is to try to convert your intangibles.

ROI 50

ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Debriefing Giving Tuesday: Why It Matters Post-campaign analysis is not just a retrospective exercise; it’s a forward-looking approach to refine your nonprofit’s fundraising tactics. A thorough debrief after Giving Tuesday helps identify what worked, what didn’t, and how to leverage these insights for future campaigns.

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Lesson Giving Learning Storytelling 105

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes When doing a cost analysis between two solutions, it’s tempting to compare based on sticker price alone. At the end of this guided exercise, you’ll be able to articulate investment impact statements like: BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SAVE $79,155 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS.

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Project Tech Guide Phase 98

Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s a hard task, but is a great exercise to try. Detailed analysis of the needs your mission seeks to help. Analysis of your environment. This SWOT analysis will help you identify the key challenges and opportunities facing your organization, and will serve as the foundation for your business plan.

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Effective Business Create Tips 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. I will do one thing, I'm working on a content analysis of the action steps and learnings and am going to devote blog posts to those topics. What worked? What didn't?

Reflection 50

Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

They can be used for a nonprofit’s mission and that is why nonprofits should exercise transparency on web site analytics. at 11:31 am Web stats are intended to be an internal control and analysis tool. On a related note, I think a benchmarking study might be a useful exercise for nonprofits. David 4 Kivi Miller 09.18.07

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Stats Web Statistics NTEN 100

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Phase 4: The Analysis Stage. During The Identification Stage, the goal is to evaluate your current digital marketing strategy (if any) and discover areas for improvement. Phase 4: The Analysis Stage. However, post-campaign analysis is one of the most important steps in the entire process!

Digital 98

Digital Strategy Create Phase 98

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. But it is a great planning tool and exercise. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Rachel, I got 2:00 Eastern. Rachel: Mm-hmm. Steven: All right, awesome.

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Grant Build Video Strategy 119

Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

Outside of E-Learnings as a newer platform to maximize user buy-in, a variety of efforts are starting to be included in a well-blended mix, such as Social Learning, Gamification, and Micro Learning exercise. Rely on reporting and measurement to continuously evaluate the content that is being delivered.

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Process Business Learning Training 49

Forj

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In any case, the recorded webinar should be enhanced with pre and post-tests, learning objectives, and a “level one” evaluation. Consider upping the quality with the use of authoring software like Camtasia or H5P to allow for a quick edit of the webinar and inclusion of embedded questions and games.

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eLearning Model Time Camtasia 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2012

Data and information visualizations for advocacy, evaluation, social media, network analysis, operations, and more! You can take a look at the online exercises here. I’ll be covering that with a brief case study, tips, and interactive exercise. The panel will look at data visualization from three different lenses.

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NTC Data San Francisco Exercise 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I'm struggling to learn Google Analytics, so I thought it might be a useful exercise to go through his framework with my own blog. Kaushik's advice is: For your blog, personal or professional I recommend a goal setting exercise. The reflection involves qualitative data -- anecdotes, reflections, stories, and pattern analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2016

For its part, Kimbia, the tech platform for Give Local America, conducted a forensic analysis of its system. Through conversations amongst themselves and with their tech providers, the foundations have developed some new practices for future giving days: Conduct “Table Top” crisis planning exercises and develop a plan.

Learning 50

Learning Giving Exercise America 50

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To a large extent, understand the market forces at play that help or hurt your chance for success; think SWOT analysis and marketing mix. Now, recall in Chapter 2: Nonprofit Marketing Strategy when we evaluated keyword ranking opportunities based on difficulty. Afterall, keywords are the backbone of SEO.

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