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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. What attitudes toward evaluation are present? Someone with a sense of humor who can see the big-picture to promote a positive environment and ground the experience. are available?

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Justin Wheeler : A Tale of Two Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

Their fired-up attitude makes them great at relationship-building, and they know it. They’ve been recognized by the community and have gotten some local celebrities interested in their cause. And while both of them are passionate, well-intentioned and making an impact, only one of them is truly looking at the big picture.

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Using National Doctors’ Day to Cultivate Your Grateful Patient Program

Connection Cafe

To engage a physician, we must first think about their attitude and motivation within and around your healthcare institution. Celebrate the staff, leadership, and volunteers who go over and above to show respect and appreciation for physicians. Celebrate and recognize all who participated and those who were thanked!

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How to Turn Your Staff from a Group into a Team

NonProfit Hub

One way for your staff to work effectively is to make sure they each understand their role and how that role fits in the big picture. Garry said this will show a lot about a staff member’s attitude, if they are carrying their weight and if they need new challenges. Lead by example. Be fair and consistent. Expect the Expectations.

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System Error: Stanford Professors Tackle Tech Disruption and Democracy

Non Profit Quarterly

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. And that’s the bigger picture that we need to grapple with. I’m Amy Costello. But Reich and his colleagues are taking aim at the rest of the sector.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

Somebody else has got to save the polar bears, I've got to save myself," is sort of the basic attitude. So, that's our kind of big-picture understanding of what is going on. So, for us, that is kind of like our bigger picture. It is actually really understandable. Our question is, will this green wave lift all boats?

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