sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals.

Knowledge 68

Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 68

.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. Evaluate Resources IT deficits equal a rocky road for remote work. Remember Management by Walking Around?

Team 221

Team Evaluation Attitude Interview 221

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. ” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Formative Evaluation.

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

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.

Evaluation 97

Evaluation Generation Method Slides 97

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

One goal was to identify how the pandemic impacted their business models. Although 73% of participants agreed that accelerating trends would require fundamental changes in the roles of associations. Meet the Moment Mission Mission, or your reason for being, doesn’t typically change with fads and trends.

Voice 221

Voice Associations Culture Environment 221

.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

That dramatic entrance has changed the role of CTOs. Strengthening your EI muscle helps to support others through change and to better understand their reactions to new ways of doing business. Try taking these EI quizzes for a more comprehensive self-evaluation. Technology took center stage. Be honest about this.)

Technology 221

Technology Skills Awareness Leadership 221

.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I am still evaluating the lessons learned. The pandemic will not be the last catastrophic disruption or paradigm-changing event. Sponsorships are the model that we’re all most familiar with. Evaluate your current community and identify where expanded representation might be beneficial. The pandemic was a wormhole.

Milwaukee 221

Milwaukee Wisconsin Collaboration Associations 221

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Whether you decide to “hand over the keys” to an AI system or use it as an assistant to support the work you do, you have to trust the model. Technology is always changing, but the guiding principles should stay the same. Decisions When Building the Models When building a predictive AI model, you’ll have many questions.

Action 79

Action Effective Model Hype 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As leaders, we have a responsibility to model this behavior, demonstrating an authentic interest in our people as humans. Model and Celebrate Well-being Practices Creating a robust work culture that incorporates well-being is fundamental. Leaders should also model work-life harmony , recognizing that work and life is never balanced.

Leadership 118

Leadership Organization Culture Skills 118

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. that focus on the changes in net assets.?. requires specific?industry?expertise,

Software 311

Software Guide Award Grant 311

Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Intrigued because as president and CEO of Women’s Funding Network (WFN), the largest global alliance of gender equity funders, I am well aware of persistent gender data gaps that hinder efforts to identify disparities, change systems, and build power. It also provides a quantitative baseline to evaluate and build upon equity strategies.

Data 98

Data Demographics Aggregator Participatory 98

sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. The sector itself continued to change, but it was a challenge to effectively adapt questions to match those changes. We needed to change up our questions. Funders should “change up” their questions to stay relevant.

Question 83

Question Application Reflection Philanthropy 83

sgEngage

JULY 3, 2023

Evaluate your current business model. Consider the various impacts the current situation has on your business model, such as staffing, fundraising, and service delivery. To create lasting change, make communication a priority and leave room for continuous improvement post-crisis. Plan for long-term mission success.

Model 79

Model Fund Nonprofit Evaluation 79

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 9, 2018

Evaluating volunteer programs within nonprofit organizations is a key step in continual improvement and data collection. Systematic evaluation can positively impact the organization by creating more structure, providing results for adaptability, increasing volunteer retention and improving staff-volunteer relationships.

Evaluation 40

Evaluation Volunteer Program Impact 40

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But things forever changed when OpenAI released version 3.5 Generative AIs went from entertaining but ultimately not very useful to possessing, and the change happened overnight.  Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations.

Generation 94

Generation Education Blackbaud Model 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm. Call this “social change 2.0”. Are there differences in models by field / industry/ place?

Build 112

Build Change Social Facilitation 112

.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

But scenarios are also a tool that can be used to evaluate longer-term initiatives. It gives you some control when the external environment is rapidly changing, and people are looking to you for leadership. CEOs must be role models for their teams. But, according to Sharon, leadership is the bottom line.

Milwaukee 221

Milwaukee Wisconsin Associations Lesson 221

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2018

Non-profits aren’t immune to the changes driven by new technology. Technological advancements in other parts of our lives are indirectly changing the way donors want to interact with the organizations they contribute to. 4) Continued Disruption of the Nonprofit Sector by Commercial Players like Facebook.

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Digital Trend Fundraising Movie 278

.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

When we began that project in 2017, we knew business was changing quickly. They are role models who inspire teams to see from a different perspective. Our research included interviewing thought leaders, organizing think tanks, and surveying professionals. Association 4.0 Innovators are rule-breakers and disruptors.

Leadership 170

Leadership Associations Skills Digital 170

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.

Impact 120

Impact Management Organization Evaluation 120

Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

With that, here are three starting points for activating DEI in your organization: Provide the tools Normalize feedback Evaluate and Reevaluate 1. It is important to recognize we are asking people to change behavior patterns and long-held beliefs. Most people are yearning for and want to provide inclusion.

Activities 97

Activities Active Activism Organization 97

BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

In this second part of the series, Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, shares more terrific advice and insights on financial health and nonprofit business models. Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Two: Smart Nonprofit Business Models. What is a smart nonprofit business model? Thanks Alice!

Model 40

Model Business Practice Nonprofit 40

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Jara Dean-Coffey discussed impact, with a focus on how organizations should be evaluative , rather than simply doing evaluation.

Model 55

Model Impact Business Case Study 55

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.

Roles 116

Roles Director Evaluation Government 116

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The entire social sector learned a valuable lesson in 2020: even the most rigorous planning can’t insulate us from the need to be flexible and adapt to the changing world around us. That’s partly because underlying trends that have been driving the nonprofit sector for years have completely changed.

Trend 262

Trend Fundraising Virtual Haiti 262

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.".

Evaluation 86

Evaluation Learning Foundation Reflection 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. Almost tend years ago, they co-wrote “Net Gains,” one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change. Generative Social-Impact Network.

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Review Change Cleveland Generation 106

NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

2021 was an eventful year at NTEN as we continued to promote, work towards, and model equitable practices internally and externally. This evaluation process involves all three equity committees, including board, community, and staff. This evaluation process involves all three equity committees, including board, community, and staff.

Community 88

Community NTC Sponsor NTEN 88

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Charitable giving declined in 2018 due to tax law changes. Answer the question – What community need am I responding to, and how does a social enterprise approach meet the need versus a traditionally funded program model? Foundation giving increased but only enough for a marginal increase overall.

Social 98

Social Model Nonprofit Fund 98

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2022

One CEO of a local behavioral health and human service organization found value in program evaluation measures in his organization where there was no prior initiative to evaluate programs. Investing in a program evaluation department helped the leadership team develop a clear strategy with their first strategic plan.

Measure 52

Measure Culture Arizona Evaluation 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. Nancy used the phrase “pre-contemplation” and “contemplation” stages of behavior change and introduce me to a behavior change framework.

Technique 127

Technique Training Train Learning 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

Engage Media's Theory of Change. By aligning social media to organizational objectives and using measurement, you can answer the question: of all the ways we could be investing our resources, is social media the best choice to see the social change results that we want to see? Why Use A Theory of Change. How It Works.

Social Media 101

Social Media Change Media Social 101

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The good news is that the myth that you can’t make systemic change quickly is just that, a myth. They can’t build the schools and they can’t train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. 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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Game Education Change Classroom 132

.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress. Associations revolve around relationships, but the shape of those connections has changed. Images of the association’s founders, history, and current activities are displayed throughout the facility, and spaces were created to accommodate a variety of work styles.

Associations 221

Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been noodling with an evaluation model that looks social media from an organizational perspective - from social networks to social capital (relationships) to action in the real world. These points also make me think about an organizational listening/learning model. My questions: .

Model 74

Model Relationship Strategy Social 74

Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Business Considerations: Elements like budget, licensing type, training needs, and change management are also essential considerations in CMS selection. Product Maturity: Evaluate the CMS’s reputation, support availability, and roadmap projection. Established platforms with clear future visions are often preferable.

Open Source 52

Open Source License Drupal Platform 52

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They are setting the stage for transparent communication when evaluating compatibility and complementary “value exchange between partners” are in effect. Model selection. Implement a model that aligns most closely with the partners’ mission, capacity, and vision. Measure and share impact.

Collaboration 98

Collaboration Los Angeles Strategy Indiana 98