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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Confidence to initiate engagement with your staff and stakeholders and define roles and goals. Do you have a web team with staff in multiple roles and with different skill sets? By the end of this guide, you’ll have: A framework to get a comprehensive view of your website, how it is doing, and potential improvements that can be made.

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Evaluating Networks and their Effectiveness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I entered the community as a foundation evaluator wanting to find the best strategies and tools for documenting and learning about networks but also for measuring those difficult-to-pin-down outcomes and impact. Evaluation can also help foundations get the feedback they need to modulate their role and influence.

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

sgEngage

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Fast forward to today….

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Strategies to Build Donor Trust and Retention

sgEngage

Evaluate how your organization’s and your community’s core values are being articulated and experienced in the stories you tell , in your interactions with the public, and in your communications with donors. This perception plays a significant role in their trust of your organization. Assess how you value a donor’s support.

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Avoiding Conflict: It’s All about Expectations

VQ Strategies

That’s the first opportunity to clearly articulate the expectations for the volunteer – and to assess whether the role is, in fact, realistic. For a skilled, high-impact volunteer role, questions such as those below can be addressed in your first meetings together. Discuss how to evaluate the assignment.

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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: Taking a JEDI Approach

Bloomerang

Frankly, the search, evaluation, interview, and selection process can be very rigorous and time-consuming. Has the organization’s policies, practices, and overall culture been evaluated through the lens of a JEDI approach? . Have you evaluated your public-facing JEDI statements and practices? . Avoid labels and stereotypes.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] If You’re New To Fundraising, Where’s The Best Place To Start?

Bloomerang

This means you’ve got (1) a constituency who cares about your mission, vision and values; (2) a relevant case for support with clearly articulated needs and goals; (3) commitment from all stakeholders; (4) a communications mechanism, and (5) processes in place to steward your resources. Do they understand their role and responsibility.

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