ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Whether you’re appealing to the government, private organizations, individual investors, or charitable donation services, every grant proposal should include the following: Cover letter. Method for evaluating your success. Goals, strategy, and evaluation (1 page each). Executive summary. Information about your organization.

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Proposal Grant Money Summary 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

You have to measure accurately, as well as create an environment where problems can be discussed openly so you can effectively evaluate what’s working and what’s not.” At the Germana Gale Health Post, I saw charts of immunizations, malaria cases, and other health data plastered to walls.

Measure 102

Measure Ethiopia Summary Nonprofit 102

.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

But good governance shouldn’t be comfortable. They should be visionaries who chart the direction, evaluate options, and are prepared to challenge ideas they feel are not in the association’s best interests. The boardroom is the last place where CEOs want to rock the boat. Collegiality among leaders is a good thing.

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Build Demographics Associations Voice 322

Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Senior Vice President for Military, Veteran and Government Affairs. Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America.

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Award Leadership Cleveland Hunger 57

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. First, funders love and expect to see fully explained “giant triangles of waste.”

Problem 75

Problem Skills Proposal Grant 75

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Surprises are few and opportunities are easily evaluated and leveraged. When a leader is a planner, the organization is more stable and the team feels a sense of security knowing what’s coming down the pike. When the leader isn’t a planner, the nonprofit loses a lot of time to disorganization and chaos.

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Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Your Board is responsible for big picture issues that have to do with governing the organization. You might even kick off this conversation at your meeting by going around the room asking everyone to share their idea and writing it on a white board or flip chart. So, what SHOULD you be talking about? Focus on Board-level issues.

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Fun Product Law Nonprofit 98

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Donors, funders (including government funders), social enterprises, and others also have important roles to play. About 42 percent believed evaluations accurately reflected their impact. In the NYU talk and elsewhere, Berger acknowledges that fixing the results problem isn't something nonprofits can do alone. Image 1 : Ken Berger.

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Social Measure Charity Library 67

Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

During the polar vortex winter 2014, telework has done some unexpected things like keeping federal government services open for business during one of the really bad snow storms. MySammy software essentially evaluates how a person spends time on a computer and/or mobile device.

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Phone NSF PowerPoint Mobile 67

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Well, you’ll find that much of the work that involves your community, whether it’s building up the community, working on engagement, listening, evaluation, or anything else, involves strategy that goes in a circle. Not exactly as simply as the goldfish, but one that after a few steps feeds back to the beginning. Strive to Be Replaced.

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Case Study Community Impact Studies 117

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Donors, funders (including government funders), social enterprises, and others also have important roles to play. Open letter from Charity Navigator, GuideStar, and BBB Wise Giving Alliance to nonprofits on the "Overhead Solution" Berger's TechSoup blog post on using technology to evaluate results. Image 1 : Ken Berger.

Social 55

Social Measure Charity Problem 55

Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Planning your evaluation Decide which metrics you’ll use to measure the success of your project. Pick a few key ways the funders can evaluate your program. Local government branches that work within your cause are also great resources for grants. Provide a chart or graph to add a visual representation of the budget.

Proposal 52

Proposal Grant Template Guide 52

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

As I’m sure many of you already know, much of this work, whether it’s building up the community, working on engagement, listening, evaluation, or anything else, relies on a strategy continues to come back around to the planning elements and through to evaluation, over and over. Who’s the community?

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Library Model Adopt Community 241

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

We gather more than 800 board members, chief executives, staff, and nonprofit professionals for two days to discuss the newest thinking and best practices in nonprofit governance. Impact Convergence 2016 brings together leaders, practitioners, and professionals from around the globe who are interested in impact and evaluation.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

We promise not to read your annual report and offer our suggestions on your board governance practices!) define who is responsible for leading, executing, and providing feedback on each workstream (a well-executed RACI chart is great for this!). Evaluate creative work based on effectiveness, not opinion.

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Tips Review Collaboration Team 52

NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

No single organization can solve poverty in a community, yet we tend to focus only on our own data when evaluating our future, current, or past work. Thanks in large part to President Obama's open government initiative, every federal department must make data about its work available to the general public.

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Data Impact Statistics Storytelling 98

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With the clock ticking, we’ve evaluated the impact of the biggest changes we can make for the planet. It is hugely important that we get governments and multi-nationals to change the way they treat the planet, but that doesn’t mean we cannot do anything to show we care. by Zoe Allen. Make your voice heard.

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Impact Change Green Alternative 98

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

And a lot of the research is market research, is, you know, evaluating our constituents and our stakeholders. Good governance includes decision-making plus oversight, right? So with a process of improvement, you’re going to regularly evaluate your progress. And so you don’t have great governance. .

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Video Goal Method Impact 91

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With the clock ticking, we’ve evaluated the impact of the biggest changes we can make for the planet. It is hugely important that we get governments and multi-nationals to change the way they treat the planet, but that doesn’t mean we cannot do anything to show we care. by Zoe Allen. Make your voice heard.

Impact 52

Impact Change Green Alternative 52

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Like is there a video that I can watch so that I can evaluate whether I want to use it or not?” So I’m going to encourage you, unless you’re like a mighty team of one, and that might be true, form some loose affiliated cross-functional technology governance group. Can you orient me to them? Workgroup, action group.

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Technology Video Nonprofit System 101

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Steven: And I would call that evaluation, right, that’s us checking to see if we’re doing our work well, right. . Or we need 1,000 donors to chip in, or we need 150,000 people to sign this petition to the government to make sure they protect this wilderness area. So people get it. . Harvey: Probably. .

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Money Question Raise Video 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

The Glasspocket’s blog has a post from Claire Gibbons, a senior program officer in the Research & Evaluation Unit at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that illustrates or describes the change. (KD Paine and I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in our forthcoming book , Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.). (KD

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Social Media Media Arkansas Social 99