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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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Adding to the complication, unless you are currently facing a challenge, risk is abstract. Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. These are internal challenges that might be related to culture, human resources, or operations. Sig is right.

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How to Evaluate Nonprofit Performance and Set SMART Goals | FrontStream

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But tracking progress and ensuring long-term sustainability can be challenging without a well-structured nonprofit evaluation and goal-setting process. Nonprofit organizations play a crucial role in tackling social issues and creating positive change in their communities.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

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A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. Now that remote work makes a casual stroll through the cubicles challenging, I suggest an intentional approach. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation.

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Rethinking Recruitment and Retention Goals

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The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the definition of retention even more dramatically. Yet, even prior to the pandemic, organizations had begun to rethink how retention success was measured, shifting from a goal of keeping volunteers to one of “maximizing volunteer talent.”

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3 Effective Tools for (Re)Branding Your Nonprofit

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The pandemic has caused many mission-driven organizations to re-evaluate their mission, reconsider their strategic plan to accomplish it, and then engage donors and advocates from this new position. What specific business goals does your organization have that would be bolstered by rebranding? How to Evaluate the Options Objectively.

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