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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing.

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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

NTEN

The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio. We need a culture change. As a sector, we're woefully behind when it comes to evaluation skills. So what are our next steps?

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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

NTEN

The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio. We need a culture change. As a sector, we're woefully behind when it comes to evaluation skills. So what are our next steps?

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

By Peter Drury, a child's right a child's right either had a problem or an opportunity—the distinction hinged only on our perspective. We knew we would ultimately be in 16 countries by the year 2020, which meant that tracking, monitoring, and evaluating projects would become more complicated by the day.

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Build, Buy, or Customize?

Connection Cafe

Software implementations are largely exercises in change management, so keep in mind that change to end user roles and existing processes can rarely be avoided even with significant development work. Their offshore developers “just take care of it, no problem”? Development approach. significant cost savings).

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Defining Your IT Roles: Project Management as a Process

NTEN

Nonprofits face unique challenges that commercial enterprises often don't face: you have no IT staff, no IT budget, uneven levels of technical skills in staff, high turnover and volunteer staff, distributed teams with only the internet connecting them, no long term IT planning or vision, and project based funding models.

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

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But before we got there, we talked a bit about the problem. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games. How do you evaluate organizations that you invest in that develop games to support learning? So how do you do that?

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