Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We’ve said it before and said it again —there’s no reason to delay the switch from Universal Analytics (UA), the tool 99% of our partners use as default. Google changed it to Universal Analytics after they acquired it in 2005.) If you haven’t already started using Google Analytics 4 (GA4), there’s no time like the present.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

& Management Student, Arizona State University. Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook. This kind of analysis fascinates me, and I think it can really help others understand what's really going on in the Arizona nonprofit sector. Like this article?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

Four methods to address the challenges of slim administrative budgets are: 1. Andruszka (2014) explains the analysis that goes into cost containment methods: “It forces us to think concretely about what expenses are truly necessary for achieving our mission and what can be eliminated.”. She makes her home in Tucson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. The syllabus includes: An overview of today’s digital measurement landscape.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 11, 2018

Because the board takes a role that is connected more to oversight than day-to-day operations, the executive staff shoulders the responsibility to present organizational financial data to the board in a method that communicates their true financial health.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

Cora graduated from Regent University with a master’s degree in organizational leadership & international business. Digital marketing is essential to staying competitive alongside other nonprofits of similar nature, and it has been proven to be more effective, both in cost and engagement, than traditional outbound marketing methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. I thought the most helpful synthesis task would be a “design rationale.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

According to Smith and Lipsky (1993), contracting with nonprofits became government’s preferred method of service delivery as early as the 1960s. The Philanthropic Consequence of Government Grants to Nonprofit Organizations: A Meta-Analysis.” Harvard University Press. Brookings Institution. Retrieved from [link]. Vera Institute.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Learn from direct response – Study annual appeals, door knocking, and other methods that inspire immediate action. Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Apply those lessons.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

The Fletcher School & Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University. National University. Leads the innovative efforts at National University for military, veteran, and military family educational degree programs . Academic Institutions. Alnoor Ebrahim. Professor of Management. Kimberly Mitchell. Vice Chairman, Philanthropy.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2011

When faced with a severe technical crisis -- think mail server down, fried DB server, website hacked -- it's important to approach the situation methodically and in an organized manner. Promise that a root cause analysis will be delivered to all interested parties after crisis resolution. The House is on Fire! Survey the situation.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2013

by Amanda Jarman, Portland State University and Jennifer MacCormack, University of Washington. Stanford University, Stanford Center for Professional Development – Data Mining Certificates Online. Research Methods and Analytics. Fundraising Analytics: Stop Dreaming & Start Doing! Business Analytics.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

African Students Leverage Open Data to Aid Communities Vulnerable to Disaster Lindsay Read an AidData Summer Fellow talks about Resilient Africa Network (RAN) which is run by Makerere University and 19 other African universities in partnership with USAID’s Higher Education Solutions Network.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Jeanne Allen, Program Coordinator, Duke University Nonprofit Management Program. Yvonne Harrison, Assistant Professor, Nonprofit Leadership Center/Seattle University. John Cluverius, Teaching Assistant/Graduate Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chris Bernard, Editorial and Communications Director, Idealware.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Nonprofit organizations should identify evaluation methods to assess their programs and organization effectiveness on an ongoing basis. Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness: Analysis of Best Practices. MacKenzie will graduate in December 2017 with a Masters of Nonprofit Leadership and Management from Arizona State University.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2015

The nature of the research question will determine the content of your research, and the method you use. For example, try a reference librarian, approach an experienced individual in the private sector, or contact a university extension department. Choose a method. This will help you focus your research.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 12, 2011

The RFM method normally ‘over mails’, because more recent donors are rarely, if ever, excluded from the segmentation stratetgy. This advanced method of analysis identifies segments that require continued mailings in order to be profitable as opposed to looking at each campaign separately.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

The patch relays the info to a cloud app for analysis and in due course the info shows up on a doctor’s smartphone. Phones also provide a reliable contact method for people who have no permanent address. High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone?

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

“Our volunteer program plays an important role in providing the MacEwan student body with much-needed resources, services, and programs that would otherwise be unattainable without the support and commitment of volunteers,” said Tosheena Thompson, Volunteer Manager for Students Association of MacEwan University. Louis Area Foodbank.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Documentation such as newsletters, annual reports, dashboards, and marketing strategies stand as effective methods for providing social audit information to a large supporter base. in Life Science and a Masters in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from Arizona State University. She holds a B.S

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 16, 2013

It is well worth the investment to take one of these as a night or weekend class from your local community college or university. There are a number of conferences that offer sessions on statistical analysis, business intelligence, marketing insights, and other pseudonyms. The best method I found is to get hands on. Conclusion.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

First, as with Bitcoin, the distributed ledger method is an ideal way of tying credits to individual learners’ accounts, reducing the potential for counterfeiting credits. And all the quasi-MOOCs in higher education and CE: the cheap online master’s degrees that seemingly every big-name university is now offering.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

In fact, in organizations where these methods were applied proactively, individuals learned the new technology and felt comfortable with using the new system at a much faster rate than in those organizations where these practices were not used at all or where they were used after the fact2. The George Washington University. 1 Grady, V.,

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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. All of my examples were from universities, Jewish Day schools, and camps that made up the audience. For example, I recently gave a webinar on social media for engagement of Alumni Networks.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Kosak, the company’s President, said that “the new employee’s attitude was contagious: some of the non-disabled employees began to improve their performance.” ( Kansas University Center for Research on Learning,‘Help Wanted: Diversifying and Strengthening your Workforce by Hiring People with Disabilities’, 2005).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 11, 2011

These data are provided by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University (hereafter referred to simply as "the Center") in Giving USA. But, as with all assumptions … this, too, would benefit from more research. ^ [1] Rooney, "Behind the Myths: The Truth about Religious Giving," Philanthropy Matters, Indiana University, Vol.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

New set of research methods for this. Government funders have a congressional mandate for evaluation of anything that is funded and to use quantitative methods and research analysis. It will be different for universities than smaller nonprofits. How do those learning environments impact institutions? Two years ago.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

In a recent webinar, Senior Instructor for Blackbaud University Nate Hug shared five ways your fund accounting software can simplify the budgeting process for your nonprofit organization. Excel is universal, people are used to it, and it remains the go-to tool.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

It can be difficult for growing and mid-sized organizations to find tailored support for planned giving, a fundraising method very often reserved only for large organizations with the personnel to focus on it. Universities require careful strategy in order to properly steward their resources, so going with a legacy expert is the right move.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

CE Sensemaker provides the underlying theory, rigorous methodology and computer-based tools for the gathering and analysis of anecdotes and survey questions. . The processes being used by StoryGarden are based on methods and processes conceived by Dave Snowdenm co-founding director of the IBM Center for Organizational Complexity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Jule has been working with Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group, HRDAG, which completed analyzing data for Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Her goal while at Benetech: to learn more about the data processing techniques and quantitative analysis methods that HRDAG uses to investigate large-scale human rights violations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. This tool is called ImpactKit.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Back in the early 1990s, I had a day job studying nonprofit spending and reporting as part of something called the Nonprofit Overhead Cost Study , a joint project between the Urban Institute and Indiana University. Right now, Charity Navigator is in the midst of beta testing CN2.0 , which is the first step beyond simple ratio analysis.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Human Rights Patrick Ball recently spent a month at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he held office hours and helped prosecutors use quantitative data and statistical analysis to pursue war crimes cases. We have just completed a new case study detailing our multi-year project with the TRC.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 26, 2017

Two months if it’s a government, university or media site with a lot of authority. After conducting a site-wide analysis I found 230 additional broken links that I was more than happy to share. When you get a response I highly recommend running a full site-analysis to check for broken links.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

At this year's AASP Summit, presenters will focus on cutting-edge technology and business methods using case studies. As development research, prospect management and development analytics professionals, we provide the information and analysis that ensure our organizations focus on our most essential prospective donors. 10/26/2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The current conversation is about the need for new metrics and methods for objective measurement. It has established a universal way to measure web sites. Methods for listening to conversations off-blog and outside my media. Standardized metrics for measuring the ROI of social media strategies are a moving target.

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