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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? Does the environment support change, accountability, and communication? The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. are available?

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Top 3 Trends to Fool Proof your Future Fundraisng

NetWits

This stems from the idea that for-profits should be engaging and giving back to their local communities, the environment, and to social causes. Corporate Social Responsibility has been enacted on the local community level and all the way up to the global stage. 3) The Shift in Donor Attitudes.

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Strategic Fundraising For Small Arts + Culture Nonprofits

Bloomerang

This is an important distinction for small arts and culture nonprofits like yours, and how you positively influence local communities since your outcomes may be more difficult to quantify when compared to causes like feeding the hungry. It starts with defining, communicating, and distributing a strong and compelling vision.

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How to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit, From the Experts

Classy

Sudden cynical attitude about the job, company, or working conditions . Your Takeaway: Employees need a work environment that encourages open communication about mental health awareness and opportunities for self-care as they experience feelings of burnout. Exhaustion, lower moods, anxiety, or depression.

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Rare’s Pride campaigns are two-year marketing initiatives that shift the attitudes and behaviors of people living near endangered areas to engage them in conservation efforts. Elaina says that Miradi helped her determine what knowledge was needed by local residents to adopt behaviors that promote clean water.

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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

First of of all, there is the the appearance of a new and way-out idea that violates the status quo – such as say Local Food – the 100 mile diet. For the Environment: An Inconvenient Truth. We see the Local Food Movement, Slow Money, Local Resiliency all growing. I This is how all new paradigm stories start. .

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You also need to consider the learning environment, any constraints, the delivery options, and the timeline for the project. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.