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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

Forward-looking nonprofit organizations know that leveraging data is key to determining where a community’s unmet needs are, securing resources to address those needs, and advocating for more effective policies. Rather than competing for limited resources, we are collaborating to secure funding and bring about policy change.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

.orgSource

I am still evaluating the lessons learned. We advocated fiercely for our members to get protective resources. More likely to be successful in advocacy and public policy. Evaluate your current community and identify where expanded representation might be beneficial. The pandemic was a wormhole. There are no members.

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Thought Leaders Blaze Trails of Discovery and Engagement

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So how do you begin to tap this new resource? Use data to make objective decisions based on site traffic, evaluations, sales, professional development activity, focus groups and/or other types of outreach. Evaluate Expertise Who exactly are the members of your new brain trust and where will you find them? This is critical.

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Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance 

Candid

The duty of care ensures that the board of directors provides oversight to responsibly manage the organization’s assets, including its people and financial resources. In other organizations, staff assume a more dominant role in setting strategy and policy, marginalizing the board’s ability to provide strategic direction and oversight.

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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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Nonprofit Technology Assessment: Evaluate Your Tech

DNL OmniMedia

A nonprofit technology assessment is an evaluation of the digital maturity of your organization. A tech assessment involves a close analysis of your entire tech stack, and these questions give us an idea of the areas to pay the closest attention to. Which new policies to implement to ensure the effective use of technology.

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Non Profit Quarterly

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. This has led to situations where BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ users are disproportionately affected by policies meant to address “bad” behaviors.