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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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Remote work is challenging teams. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. Updating roles is a good place to begin promoting the flow of knowledge, ideas, and information across your association. These are telltale signs: Your strategy has changed. Understand the Options.

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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 owns the information collected?

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. How the sector understands and engages in knowledge work is crucial to the success of philanthropic efforts.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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It’s not difficult to evaluate when someone has the right background and experience to do a job. Hiring for fit is more challenging. That specific information allows employers to hire people who are the right fit for their community, and it can help prospective employees avoid situations where they will not thrive.

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Thought Leaders Blaze Trails of Discovery and Engagement

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Passion plus knowledge is a powerful hook, making people who were about to swipe stay for a while. ” Kurtzman believed that thought leaders should help shape the way people think about the world by sharing their ideas and insights and by challenging the status quo. Here’s one significant challenge.

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Creating a Nonprofit Digital Strategy with ChatGPT: A Practical Guide

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By Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi, CFRE , Founder and CEO at The International Social Impact Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University In the rapidly evolving landscape of nonprofit organizations, adapting to the digital realm has become a pivotal challenge. Among the innovative tools that have garnered attention is ChatGPT.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

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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.