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Becoming a Data-Driven Association

Nucleus

of mainstream companies report that they continue to struggle with cultural challenges relating to organizational alignment, business processes, change management, communication, people skill sets, and resistance or lack of understanding to enable change. There is no question that Big Data has been absorbed into the mainstream.

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An Action Plan For Embracing Change And Adapting Fast

Eric Jacobsen Blog

By reading the book, you’ll learn in great detail how to accelerate the change process—lessen your panic, adapt faster, define the new normal, and thrive going forward. Jason Feifer Today, Feifer answers these questions for us: Question: Of the four phases of change, which is typically the most difficult for people to work through and why?

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. But is this the right question? Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation? For whom is monitoring, evaluation, and learning being done?

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

sgEngage

When we momentarily set aside the many foundation models or toolkits for addressing a particular task, we start to remember that the essence of knowledge is shared meaning making—how we, together, come to understand and engage in community, in the world around us, and in change itself. Information is all around us. Data requires intention.

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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

NTEN

Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for. But we also know that we don't want a new definition established without our input. And that's just to name a few. . Here's where I turn to you, NTEN: what are the big needs we haven't adressed here?

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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

NTEN

Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for. But we also know that we don't want a new definition established without our input. And that's just to name a few. Here's where I turn to you, NTEN: what are the big needs we haven't adressed here?

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7th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Report: A Closer Look (Staffing Levels)

NTEN

In our previous survey, we moved from "information technology staff" to "Technology-responsible staff" in the question, hoping that this more-inclusive terminology would help us understand better the FTE staffing levles related to technology. So, how did these various question formats impact responses/results?

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