Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. How are Nonprofit’s Financial Goals Different? This method?focuses?on

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. Performance, however, differs from morale, although the two are related. Every organization is different.

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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Change is a staple of life for any organization. Whether it’s upgrading part of your tech ecosystem, finding more efficient business processes or even updating physical infrastructure, navigating change is something nonprofits and other organizations have to face almost every day. What is Salesforce change management?

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2022

Process automation can be scary for nonprofits because it can feel like you are giving up some control. But implementing automated processes can help you ensure consistent controls and set your organization up for growth. Today’s donors want to know their resources are making an impact. The average U.S.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. Why Change Up Your Questions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a grants manager, you know how important it is to have a clear and efficient grantee application process. But you also want to respect your grantees’ time and resources and avoid asking them for information that you don’t use or that they have already provided elsewhere.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

We’ve done the legwork and compiled the top ways Chat GPT and AI can help your team save resources, perform tasks, and raise more funds. ChatGPT is a powerful online tool that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to process and respond to user queries.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Born from necessity, the pandemic catalyzed the shift to a more digitally-driven selling process, and consequently thought leadership has become an increasingly important top of the funnel marketing tool.” So how do you begin to tap this new resource? Do the Research Favorite playlists change quickly.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

If you think it may be time to update your nonprofit’s branding, it’s helpful to know what to expect from the process. Before you commit to a complete overhaul of your nonprofit’s branding , make sure you understand what a rebrand entails: Your audience’s perception of your nonprofit will change.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

As a grantmaking organization focused on the success of your grantees, it is essential to have a process in place to manage personnel changes—for both you and your grantees—so everyone stays informed and on schedule. This document will help new team members absorb your unique grantmaking process and keep everyone on the same page.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Machine Learning, predictive modeling, and natural language processing are a few of the ways AI makes data more meaningful. Dig Deeper and See Farther You may wonder how AI-driven analytics differ from the queries, dashboards, and statistical packages that have been around for some time now.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It defines how learners perceive and react to their overall educational experience, including their level of satisfaction, engagement, and emotional response to the learning process. You can do this by implementing mid-course check-ins or post-course evaluations.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. Normally that seems like something they would do during the startup phase of the nonprofit, but missions can change over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. There are more and more resources and opportunities for nonprofit professionals seeking to learn about how to use measurement and data. How to collect data? Making meaning.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

When we began that project in 2017, we knew business was changing quickly. It’s about building relationships and trust between different players in the ecosystem, and it’s about creating a shared vision for the future.” They are role models who inspire teams to see from a different perspective. Association 4.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2023

She shares fundraising resources and guides on Karma Campaigns and offers Google Analytics and Google Ads , Facebook Ads , and lead generation services. Universal Analytics (UA) has stopped processing data. In a big change from Universal Analytics, GA4 reports on traffic and user acquisition. It’s official.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

In today’s world, organizations simply cannot afford to invest their time and limited resources in initiatives that do not demonstrably deliver outcomes that support their goals. For example, knowing that you want to increase a specific type of membership can make all the difference in measurement, analysis, and strategy.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Schools and other organizations are constantly presented with new applications, software, tools, and resources. Without a vetting and approval process in place, they can end up in the “Wild Wild West” of technology, with redundant or underutilized tools, wasted human capital, and unnecessary expenses. Keep data security top of mind.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

With the year half way over, this is the perfect time to evaluate your progress so far. If you raised 15% more in January 2019 compared to January 2020, take a look at the difference in your fundraising strategies between these two time periods. Did you mail out an appeal at a different time? This Year Vs. Last Year.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

They have to do all this while regularly drafting and submitting grant requests from funders who have different and changing priorities. How closely should they track those changes? Moreover, funders, evaluators, and program managers can have different goals related to programs’ implementations. Mexico border.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I entered the community as a foundation evaluator wanting to find the best strategies and tools for documenting and learning about networks but also for measuring those difficult-to-pin-down outcomes and impact. Evaluation can also help foundations get the feedback they need to modulate their role and influence.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Here we share how we turned traditional, time-consuming grant reporting into a faster, easier, and more efficient process. A look at the grant reporting process Each year, Candid is required to submit approximately 100 grant reports to our funders. To streamline the process, one person collects the information and drafts the report.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

It doesn’t talk exactly how you thought it would with the different components in your tech stack. This looks different from school to school and only you know what works best for your environment. Some things were obvious, but I knew it was the behind-the-scenes magic that could really make a difference.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

Changing a core piece of software at your grantmaking organization is no picnic. If it’s time for you to start looking for a new grant management system, use this opportunity to evaluate your processes, figure out what needs to change, and find a solution that can growth with your organization.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With an accounting system designed to manage and track balances by fund and subfund across fiscal years and with supported documentation, you can minimize risk by making nonprofit compliance a streamlined process. And the more workarounds you have, the longer it takes to pull information together through manual processes.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

In this article, we’ll provide some guidance to those who are ready to move beyond the board statement or public equity pledge to actively and intentionally implement Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) practices and strategies into their consultant search process. . As we move forward, we invite you to do the same. .

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 18, 2023

Explore how these surveys can provide crucial insights, elevate the experience for volunteers, and optimize processes, to help nonprofits better achieve their mission. In today’s ever-changing landscape of nonprofit organizations, effective volunteer management is crucial for achieving impactful and sustainable results.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 2, 2009

5-Part Social Media Strategy Process. Identify the resources currently available within your organization. By evaluating what resources you already have on hand in the organization, you are much more prepared to fully examine your options. This is really helpful in order to evaluate the appropriate tools for your work.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

As we evolve into a society that increasingly relies on software to manage everything from personal communications to banking needs, the debate over the pros and cons of configurable vs. customized solutions is a part of every software evaluation. What is the Difference Between Customized and Configured Software?

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2023

It even came up in yearly evaluations and manager check-ins. A year ago, the operations and admin team committed to investigating what could be possible and whether we needed to modify our policies and benefits to make the change. Are all of our plans of interest to you? Likely not!

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When your nonprofit is looking to change its financial system, it would be nice to have a crystal ball. Can you walk me through the process for building a report and a dashboard? Verify that the process is intuitive. Either way, find out what their standard communication process is for implementation.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Together, we’ll unlock the potential of using your plan to thrive in changing circumstances. Take a look at your fundraising totals for the year so far, along with any changes in your organization’s budget that need to be accounted for. Evaluate your progress and determine whether you are on track to meet your targets.

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Develop Fundraising Pledge Track 77

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that a crisis can come in all different shapes and sizes, and it can impact just about anyone and everyone. Nonprofits provide vital resources and services to society, therefore having a higher level of crisis resistance will increase a nonprofit’s effectiveness. What can we do differently?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2022

Years ago, I worked on a project where I was hired to interview about 75 different foundations in one state. Or maybe they would use a slight spin, such as, “our grantmaking strategies are unique”, or “we do things differently here. Do you know the one thing that nearly every foundation representative shared?

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2023

It’s where a significant amount of your audience members will come to look for more information about you and to access key resources and products. A positive CX with a brand, resource, or service significantly impacts an organization’s success. Unfortunately, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to this process.

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