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Nonprofit Technology Consulting: 6 Steps to Success

DNL OmniMedia

However, for organizations conducting urgent or complex projects, a consultant that provides ongoing support can be a cost-effective alternative to hiring an internal team member to oversee their technology. Ongoing support can be especially helpful for organizations interested in completing their project in phases.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis.

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An Interview with BWF on the Value of the RFP Process

Cloud 4 Good

Request for proposals, or RFPs, help define projects, set expectations, and ensure the right clients and/or vendors are selected to help businesses grow effectively and efficiently. JB: We generally recommend that organizations focus on high-level requirements gathering before authoring and issuing the RFP to more fully define the project.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We pick projects that have the potential for large-scale change: can we deliver something for a tenth of the cost of the existing solution? If cost benchmarking doesn’t make sense (as in the field of human rights), can we dramatically change the way people operate in a given area? We don’t pick a single area of focus.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

I hope to pair both vision and mission and goals with concrete tools for you to be able to help manage whatever project that you are overseeing or strategic planning process that you were overseeing. We really need strong project managers. Another project I worked on was regarding youth mental health.

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How Networked Nonprofit Use Facebook SMARTly

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help.

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Does Your Nonprofit Organization Have Measurement Malaise?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The survey looked at nonprofit’s self-reported results, goals, time investment, and measurement approaches for Facebook, although I wonder if you can really answer the big picture question without looking at how nonprofits use Facebook in the context of an integrated strategy and good measurement practice benchmarking study.

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