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Going Beyond the Dollar: The Community Leadership Role of Foundations

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This can include bringing in a national speaker to train nonprofits, investing in leadership development programs, or providing technical assistance via a set number of consulting hours to support strategic planning and evaluation. By investing in community leadership, foundations pave the way for a more equitable and thriving society.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

These program practices include needs assessment, decision-making, program implementation, and evaluation. Asking for beneficiary input on needs assessments and evaluations can show funders the true need for their dollars and demonstrate that the organization is meeting program objectives, noted in " The Eyes of the Beholders.".

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Adventures in Evaluating Participatory Exhibits: An In-Depth Look at the Memory Jar Project

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THE RESEARCH The challenge, of course, was to figure out how to evaluate the experience in a way that would help us identify the power of the project. I think most of us are familiar with interview and survey-based evaluation methods. This was used to evaluate the amount of emotional energy dedicated to the jar activity.

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

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In the OKR process, evaluation of objective success is often done on a continuum. Google is known for defining a 70% success rate as success for evaluating the effectiveness of key results towards achieving a goal , with 100% signaling extraordinary performance. either you hit the goal, or you didn’t).

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Fundraising Metrics: Don’t Just Count the Dollars

ASU Lodestar Center

dollars raised) are the most commonly used metric for evaluating fundraising staff, but they are not the only metrics that we as managers should track. These must be tracked and evaluated. In addition to these structures, there are also cultural mechanisms one can employ to make the performance evaluation system a success.

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

So, how do identify if you are succeeding or evaluate if you are improving? These 5 steps assume that your organization has already used a process to evaluate your audience and your goals and chosen tools and strategies that match the audience and organizational goals.

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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

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To meet needs, they co-fund professional development in areas like fundraising, strategic planning, facilitation, evaluation, racial equity work, marketing and communications, storytelling, and more. . In one community in Indiana, three foundations teamed up to design a training program for local nonprofit leaders and staff. .