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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

.orgSource

leadership soapbox here to say that a digital culture uses objective data to measure and evaluate all of its activities. You’ll want to enlist directors with influence to champion the idea. Analyze the results and commit to a frank discussion. I’ll get on my Association 4.0 Was there anything that undermined our success?

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Measuring Impact: Feature Article from the Latest Issue of NTEN:Change

Amy Sample Ward

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you’re achieving that key outcome for impact. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success.

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Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I heard about Guidestar’s plans to measure high performance at scale, I invited Jacob Harold, CEO and fellow ambassador to share a guest post about it on my blog. GuideStar Platinum: Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale by Jacob Harold. And sometimes it can feel that measuring social change is even harder.

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How ACLU NJ Defines Social Media Success: The First Important Measurement Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? Influence —> take action.

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How Nonprofits Can Benefit from Continued Marketing During Times of Change

Media Cause

Benchmarking, forecasting, and determining how your organization fares with its supporters is difficult when there is a data gap. Cost efficiencies will be lost when stopping and then restarting paid media, as campaigns will require more investment to spend time to relearn and drive results.

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Measuring Social Media Outcomes Is Easier than Measuring Hurricane Strength

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What are the key results of this campaign ?

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Measuring Impact: Feature Article from the Latest Issue of NTEN:Change

NTEN

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you're achieving that key outcome for impact. Databases - Nonprofits can use these tools to track data in real time and report on results.

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