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New survey measuring child and youth well-being launches in communities

Charity Village

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every community in Canada and threatened the childhoods of millions of its youngest residents. However, we have not yet heard about what matters most from children and youth themselves.

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What You Need to Know About the Largest Vaccine Operation in History

Saleforce Nonprofit

We work in over 190 countries and territories with the goal of saving children’s lives, defending their rights, and helping them fulfil their potential. We support children and their families from pregnancy to early childhood through to adolescence, and many live in some of the world’s most rural, vulnerable, and remote communities.

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What strategies can nonprofit leaders use to move program beneficiaries into program partners?

ASU Lodestar Center

This could be something as simple as a memo to the staff of the organization or as big as a strategic plan, such as a Balanced Scorecard, suggested in Strategic Performance Measurement and Management , or a theory of change approach, such as the one in The Center for Theory of Change. She loves to read, write and backpack in her free time!

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Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) This is for a campaign against violence on children.&# She goes on to say that we have to be creative in how we measure success.

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The Power of Focus: Using OKRs to Turbocharge Your Foundation’s Effectiveness

Connection Cafe

Measurement of objective attainment is nuanced – In many performance management systems, the results are measured in a binary way (i.e., Consider the following OKR for a foundation that focuses on reducing childhood obesity nationwide: Objective: Eliminate childhood obesity in the Northeast. Conclusion.

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

First, let’s settle on an example we can use to walk through all 5 steps: you work for a small nonprofit that focuses on early childhood education, so you have lots of services for parents and partnerships with hospitals, child care facilities, and doctors offices. So, how do we measure those items?

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6 Steps to Zeroing Out Child Labour Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Child labour is a violation of every child’s right to a childhood. When children can not achieve their full potential, it tears at a countries’ social fabric and directly diminishes its economic growth. This means that every one in 10 children age five and over in the world today are trapped in child labour.

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