Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. We continue to refine the data we use for training and evaluating our grants auto-coding system. What can bias look like in the data?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Note From Beth: Back in 2011, I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson and Jai Sen from Sen Associates where I learned about research study they were conducting about social media use in the arts. keep spending level.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 27, 2023

Read our blog for strategies to get st arted. Empower your board members with reminders to complete certain procedures like compliance documents, conflicts of interest, financial disclosures, director and officer questionnaires, CEO evaluations, and more. Boost collaboration.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Anthem Awards were created to highlight and amplify the most impactful and inspiring work across seven core purposes: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion; Education, Art, & Culture; Health; Human & Civil Rights; Humanitarian Action & Services; Responsible Technology; and Sustainability, Environment, & Climate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Explore how the strategic integration of SWOT analysis, audience mapping, SMART communication targets, channel identification, content strategy, execution and evaluation, and high-level communications planning can shape a successful digital transformation. ChatGPT can help in generating actionable steps for execution.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2022

Evaluate what the organization is currently doing to engage young people. It is important for nonprofit executives to evaluate the ways in which they currently engage young people and what can be done to improve outreach and stewardship. Santeler is experienced in working with arts and education nonprofits professionally.

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Generation Milwaukee Wisconsin Donor 98

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. THE RESEARCH The challenge, of course, was to figure out how to evaluate the experience in a way that would help us identify the power of the project. He puts it on the wall. What was it?

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Candid

JULY 22, 2021

These included higher education institutions with students from underserved communities, arts organizations, and social sector infrastructure organizations. Editor’s note: Scott awarded a grant to Candid.) . Issue (subject area and population served) .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 1, 2014

Sara Woldt is an MBA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration with career interests in marketing and development. Stewardship is often discussed as it relates to university advancement and is more rarely discussed in terms of arts and cultural organizations.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

APIs and the Art of the Possible (Panel) Panelists include Nick Marchese of Emma Willard School, Shandor Simon of Beaver Country Day School, and Stephen Boyle of Blackbaud The power of APIs lies in their ability to seamlessly connect disparate systems, unlock data silos, and facilitate the exchange of information in real-time.

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Blackbaud API Empowerment Nevada 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marc van Bree and I were chatting about some of the collaborative arts marketing strategies that some arts organizations have experimented with on Twitter. Since there have been a few examples, I asked Marc if would write a post looking at some of these. What do you have in store for the future?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Recently, modernist and impressionist paintings have been selling particularly well in the art world. Recently, modernist and impressionist paintings have been selling particularly well in the art world. Art that has personal meaning for your community is also a safe bet.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As we do every year after the Nonprofit Technology Conference , we reviewed evaluations, debriefed the entire conference as a team, and brought ideas to our various committees to help us plan an even better event the next time. This year, we are excited to have expanded Community Conversations, live art, and music events at the NTC.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For some, it might seem more like an art than a science, as there is confusion about the process. These are often aligned with the funder’s strategic priorities and should also align with the criteria for evaluating a successful proposal. requires preparation, strategic thinking, technical writing, and research skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

She says that social media and online technology can let you catch up quickly with colleagues from your past or potential connections and let you evaluate whether or not to reconnect. There’s a lot of research and writing about weak links being potentially more powerful than strong ones.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 22, 2021

Morehouse University , the only historically Black liberal arts college in the U.S. Purdue University evaluated five vendors before the COVID-19 pandemic, and ultimately chose Salesforce because of platform scalability, flexibility, and its strong partnership with UC Innovation. Morehouse Uses Tech to Transform Its Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

As a member of the NTEN Board, I used this framework to help us work through our performance evaluation process. At the same time, many in the group, the Leap Ambassadors Community , were passionate about meeting the needs of small nonprofits, such as youth development programs, environmental programs, churches, arts programs, and others.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Letting grantees lead: What we’re learning from the BUILD evaluation. The Power of Dialogue about Nonprofit Data and Evaluation. Joint Statement of Associations Advancing Equitable Evaluation Practices. Evaluating a Culture. Philanthropy is at a turning point. Here are 6 ways it could go.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

Carefully evaluate each idea so you can choose the one that will bring you the most money and awareness for the least investment of time and money. This craft combines art, journaling, and self-care and has taken off over the past couple of years! Here are some ideas: Talent contest: Perfect for an arts organization.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To answer, consider the following: Potential costs Potential benefits Potential risks Evaluating potential risks for your AI use case can help determine the importance of keeping a human in the loop. For example, Payne stresses that due diligence remains essential when evaluating potential donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

” And that’s a difficult question to answer – whether it is your social or network strategy or a work of art. But it wasn’t until Active Voice brought on a full time evaluator that were we able to identify and actually measure the kind of shifts we think films can contribute to. Who are we trying to reach?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

(NSD) aimed to improve the voting experience and increase civic engagement using public art. Working with the Knight Foundation, Mural Arts, Committee of Seventy and other key nonprofit partners, HMC created a completely new way to look at, and impact, voter turnout and experience here in Philadelphia.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

For instance, there may be several nonprofits that offer art programs for secondary school students, but you are one of the few entities that serve adults 18 years and older. Before committing to a collaborative venture, you evaluate each potential partner to ensure alignment with your organization’s mission, values, and goals.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. I have seen a lot of inclusion practices and policies in museums and cultural institutions, but I haven''t seen many evaluations of their success. This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Media literacy: Promote media literacy programs that educate the public about the value of journalism, how to critically evaluate news sources, and how to distinguish between credible and unreliable information. They serve the diverse needs of their audience with music, news, public affairs, and fine arts programming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

I went to the Learning in Public session expecting to hear that the process the Packard Foundation used to evaluate their capacity building work was wildly successful. In true GEO style, Kathy Reich and Jared Raynor, the evaluator from TCC Group shared what worked and what didn’t…and what they plan to do in the future.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

These technologies can do everything from poetry to code to digital art to research to essay writing. Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations. Generative AIs have the power to transform education.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

Define, measure, and evaluate your organization’s outcome strategies all in one place. Salesforce incorporates many state-of-the-art security practices to keep your information safe and secure. Similarly, we know one of the core values of grantmakers is to be responsible stewards of grantee and applicants’ data and materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

In April, I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research. on how different arts organizations using social media effectively. The next phase was crowd-sourced rating process - where anyone could be a curator evaluating the aesthetic quality and relevance to the exhibition theme.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 29, 2021

This example may not be a one-size-fits-all tool, but the Road Map includes vision, assessment, education, implementation and integration, and evaluation strategies. He has spent the past 20 years in the arts and culture and philanthropy sectors with positions on the local, state and national levels.

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Allegiance Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

” One answer to this critical question is: Evaluate the strength of your appeal copy. How often have you asked yourself, “How can my organization improve its fundraising campaign results?” Connect with our direct mail fundraising experts , who’ll partner with you to make the world a better place.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2020

Traditionally, arts and cultural organizations start fundraising after someone buys their first ticket. How arts and cultural organizations can effectively communicate with their supporters during these uncertain times. Resources to Guide Arts and Cultural Organizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic. It’s OK to be human.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2012

Because we are creating the audio files from the text on a server, we can use the state of the art Ivona text-to-speech engine. Recently in a class that I am taking, I had to evaluate 150 children's books in 7 different categories. The added descriptions gave me a new respect when doing my evaluations. I love them.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2022

Myth 3: Making the right ask is more art than science Even the most experienced fundraisers can stumble when it comes to figuring out the right ask amount. All we have to do is evaluate their capacity to give, which only takes a few minutes with tools like iWave. An ask too high and you might miss a gift entirely.

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