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Who is sharing nonprofit demographic data with Candid? 

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It also seeks to provide a common baseline of the diversity of the field, as well as ensure that demographic data is available to those who can make use of it to evaluate their programs and assess progress around equity. v In the chart, the category for “Gender” combines responses to two separate questions on the demographic survey.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. An organizational chart. A buddy system helps to reinforce the culture and model the behavior that you want to promote within the organization. Except for officers, most don’t receive financial compensation. Financial statements. Minutes of recent meetings.

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

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Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will. What if they could be vulnerable, share where their plans had to diverge, or when their logic model was off?

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Social Media: Ask What’s the Change, Not the Return!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Should we be using an industrial measurement model in a digitally networked age? I’m just noodling here.

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The Outcome of Our Outcomes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Is the evaluation of your program something management needs to assess the performance of your organization as a whole? The Outcome of Our Outcomes – guest post by Victoria Vrana.

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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

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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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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy. The production system maps aid an organization to understand how work actually gets done, in comparison to formal org charts.

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