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Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. The report lays out some new metrics for movement building – that are paths to the more easily counted tangible results and where the unit of analysis is the movement or network, not an organization.

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How To Achieve Constant Learning By Breaking Free From Chronic Performance

Eric Jacobsen Blog

We also need to ask questions, experiment, solicit feedback, reflect on surprises or mistakes, learn from others, and habituate other Learning Zone strategies. Each of us can regularly reflect on how well the habits we’re engaged in are working and what adjustments we want to try. Briceño : This depends on the situation.

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

To harness the full potential of performance measurement, funders and nonprofits must join together to co-create mutually beneficial methods and metrics. Kellogg Foundation , PM is no longer about proving something works, but about generating information to better understand how and why programs work. According to the W.K.

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Ocean Conservancy: The Art of Social Media Experimentation, Learning, and Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The organization is a Packard Foundation grantee. It is really hard to carve out time to take a step back and reflect on what has gone well, what hasn’t, and what to do next. In 2007, Vikki Spruill attended a seminar hosted by the Packard Foundation with Clay Shirky and came away both scared and excited about his ideas.

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Avinash Kaushik on Failing Fast (Win A Copy of Web Analytics 2.0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over two years ago, I made a screencast about Web Analytics for Nonprofits that covered the basics of using google analytics, web metrics, and some nonprofit case studies featuring Laura White and the Idealist. I've learned a lot about metrics from Avinash. What I like best is that it takes the mystery out of social media metrics.

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Linking Results To Key Performance Indicators Is Like Hooking Up A Big TV

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Step 5: Define your metrics. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. I use the chart below, which comes from Chapter 5 of our book.

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Nonprofit Strategic Planning: Ultimate Guide + 7 Examples

Bloomerang

The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. These goals include specific numbers and time frames to help orient your strategic planning around quantifiable metrics. Retain 70% of donors from last year.

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