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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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The Power of Learning Analytics: Maximizing the Impact of Your Education Programs

Association Analytics

Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment. This refers to the feelings, attitudes, and opinions of the individuals participating in your programs, courses, or training.

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Measuring Impact: The First Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. This is now the core work of Active Voice, designing outcome-oriented strategies and implementing story-fueled, measurable campaigns. Measurement'

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How Standardize Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Measurement: Use This Grid

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

. Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Strategies to diversify nonprofit boards to yield success

ASU Lodestar Center

Phase 1: Triple A’s - awareness, attitude and action. This phase starts with evaluating current board composition using a board matrix. It is a good idea to have specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-based - SMART - goals. Phase 3: Evaluate and celebrate. Phase 2: Implementation.

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Social Media and the Arts: How Strong Is Your Social Net?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With the digital communications landscape evolving at light speed we wanted to track challenges, leadership attitudes, measurement strategies and 2014 investment plans. Management attitudes. This is the question we’re asking arts groups across the country this month, refreshing our national landmark survey of 2011.

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Research Friday: Does your nonprofit have an outcome-driven culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately. As part of a.