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Telling the story in a new way: Should arts leaders use impact evaluation?

ASU Lodestar Center

To borrow from the song: “Art is a many splendored thing.” Art is also very subjective. Again borrowing: “One man’s trash is another man’s art.” So, what is the value of art? Recently, I attended a conference on arts education. Difficult to objectify and quantify. Math doesn’t have to be justified.

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Reflections from Arts Leaders Workshop: Resilient Leaders from the Inside/Out

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” They prefer to control a situation and are focused on big-picture results.

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Training Nonprofit Staff & Volunteers Effectively in 5 Steps

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What you could be finding is that the organizational chart stayed largely the same, but now, not everyone fits where they were before. What specific, measurable results will occur once that training is complete? Few seminars guarantee results, even if you implement everything they taught to the letter. Step 4: Reward success.

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Highest Online Donations for Nonprofits in 2016

Tech Soup

These results are based on the largest analysis of charitable giving data and come from the 2016 Charitable Giving Report. According to the report, overall giving to K through 12 education and arts and culture sectors grew the most in 2016. In 2016, overall charitable giving increased 1 percent and online giving was up 7.9

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Help participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis.

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Infographics: Should Your Nonprofit Hire A Designer or Do It Yourself!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But if you want convert more of your content to visual material or if you don’t have any budget for a designer, going the DYI (Do It Yourself) method can produce great results. You might also want to brush up on what types of charts and graphs are best for making presenting your insights gleaned from the data.

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How to Retain Your Year-End Donors

Neon CRM

The first tool is the donor retention bar chart widget you can add to your dashboard. Donors who make their first gift as a result of this campaign will be somewhat familiar with your work, but they probably won’t have a deep understanding of what you do, why you do it, and why their involvement is important.

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