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Why your nonprofit must invest in outcome measurement and a culture of innovation

ASU Lodestar Center

In order to tie outcomes to mission, leaders must embrace and invest in outcome measurement. One CEO of a local behavioral health and human service organization found value in program evaluation measures in his organization where there was no prior initiative to evaluate programs.

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

Charity Village

However, we have not yet heard about what matters most from children and youth themselves. The post New survey measuring child and youth well-being launches in communities appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Announcing Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Book

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Keo Savon, the young Cambodian woman supported by Measuring Networked Nonprofit book royalties. We are honored to have Laura Arrillaga-Andreeseen, Author of Giving 2.0 , write the foreword and it articulates from the donor perspective why nonprofits need to embrace measurement and learning.

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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. Children for Children Foundation. And it can be a rewarding experience. Youth in Philanthropy. Learning To Give.

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Building evidence and innovating programs to reduce disparities in children’s well-being 

Candid

The Race for Results report series tracks how children across racial and ethnic groups are faring at the state and national levels on key education, health, and economic milestones. The latest report, released this month, shows that we are failing to equip children of every race and ethnicity with what they need to succeed.

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From Outputs to Outcomes: Measuring the True Value of Volunteering

Connection Cafe

We’ve tallied the number of hours served, rooms painted, pounds of food packed, children tutored, or books donated and then done our best to connect that to a nonprofit’s tangible outcomes. How does the impact measurement framework work? How does volunteer measurement benefit nonprofits? What does this mean for companies?

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Matt Groch to Offer Keynote on Measuring Impact at #14LCS

NTEN

Today we’re excited to share that Matt Groch , Director of Solution Delivery at Mission Measurement , will offer a keynote called Moneyball for Social Impact, Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the implications of a discrete closed-loop factor analysis framework for social impact. How do we measure social change?

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