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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They even got to meet Keo Savon, the young Cambodian women that we are sending to college by donating the royalties from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” to the Sharing Foundation. Here’s some resources from VolunteerMatch if you want to volunteer your time to help out hunger organizations.

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Demystifying Outcomes Measurement: A Glossary for Funders 

Connection Cafe

Over the past several years, I’ve met with countless people at a wide variety of organizations to connect on outcomes measurement , and I tend to hear similar questions and qualms about this still-new area. “ How do we get started? ” “ Is there a difference between measurement and evaluation? ” “ Is there a right way to define an outcome?

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How to Write an Effective Grant Proposal

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Many grant applications will ask similar questions, such as what programs or materials you need funding for and why, how your nonprofit makes an impact in the community, and how you’ll measure success if selected for the award. As you demonstrate past performance, also explain how you’ll continue to measure progress going forward.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

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His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Shriners Hospital for Children.

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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Beyond the measurable performance impacts determined by testing, organizations must determine their own risk to employ ethical storytelling as a principle (because you believe it’s the right thing to do, regardless of impact) compared with using traditional response drivers that may maximize the revenue for your mission.

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Family Volunteering – All Together Now!

VQ Strategies

For generations, parents and their children have responded to the needs of neighbors, organizations, and their community by rolling up their sleeves and working together. By developing a “Family Volunteer Philosophy,” which can serve as your guide and “yardstick” against which you will measure your family volunteering activities.

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Achieving the SDGs: Taking Action for the 2030 Agenda In Your Community

Connection Cafe

“We can end hunger around the world by 2030.”. When you consider a goal like ending hunger, you have a couple of choices. This 15-year initiative aims to tackle 17 areas of need across the world, from eradicating hunger to fostering responsible production and consumption to ensuring everyone has access to a quality education.

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