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3 Strategies To Elevate Your Association’s Impact in the New Year

Association Analytics

In this blog, we’ll outline our top three strategies to elevate your impact this year, along with ways to make small, easy changes that lead to large, impactful results. This is considered an implicit data collection method. This is considered an explicit data collection method. Observing is the most valuable type of data.

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

sgEngage

Here are some best practices for effectively managing staff turnover and onboarding with your grantmaking software, including some methods of reassigning existing records to new staff members, establishing clear security roles, and building a comprehensive policies and procedures guide to keep everyone on the same page.

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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.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

sgEngage

In philanthropy, there can also be worries of time commitment, grantee burden, complicated methods and, frankly, resources circling the drain without adding any function or value. Policy Change Furthermore, the implicit idea that widespread quality data leads directly to positive policy change is also not accurate.

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4 Quick Tips to Remember When Planning an Advocacy Campaign

Top Nonprofits

What policies have they supported? What policies have they opposed? Follow this method of storytelling to draw on these emotions and keep supporters invested in helping accomplish your goal. We also have an ever-expanding blog full of valuable information to help your not-for-profit org reach its potential.

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Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector 

Candid

At an organizational level, evaluations can help to establish ethics policies for what AI can be used for and what appropriate use looks like. Candid has established AI policies for staff, one of which is that AI outputs must be verified for truth and accuracy. What can bias look like in the data?

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6 tips to create a volunteer group and successfully launch DEI initiatives

Nimble AMS

One simple method to ensure you avoid common DEI mistakes at your association is to create a volunteer group for DEI initiatives. Respectfully ask a volunteer if it’s okay to use an idea for a blog or whitepaper. Keep your volunteer training interesting by making orientation content engaging.

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