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Collaborative Grantmaking: Rethinking How to Assess Impact

sgEngage

Defining and assessing impact is rarely simple but taking a collaborative grantmaking approach can help you identify the real learnings and center the stakeholder to create a solution that actually drives results. Move Past Promises to Deliver Collaborative Impact. Redefine Learning by Focusing on the Greatest Benefit.

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Nonprofits can become more resilient by spending more on fundraising and admin ? new research

Pamela Grow

To help nonprofits tackle this quandary, we teamed up with two other business professors , Arian Aflaki and Goker Aydin , to develop a mathematical model to guide nonprofits on how to divvy up their spending to optimize both current performance and future resilience through their spending priorities.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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Is the Higher Education Pipeline Shrinking or Just Taking a Nap?

sgEngage

As birth rates decline and populations age, the effects on enrollment numbers, funding, and institutional sustainability become increasingly pronounced. With fewer young individuals entering the age cohort traditionally associated with college attendance, institutions face the risk of lower enrollment rates.

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4 Ways to Expand the Value of Your AMS with Analytics

Association Analytics

This saves time and improves collaboration across the organization. Look at retention rates by member type and correlated behavior to identify what members are more likely to renew. Start to build Predictive Models. With a self-service on-demand dashboard, you can start exploring questions and finding the answers.

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Philanthropy Delivers New Promise of Quality Education for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I had the opportunity to speak with both Gallucci and Roy about this unique funder collaborative and more specifically about how the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education would measure the impact of their investments. This is where philanthropy comes in.

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Ask a Nonprofit Specialist: Using collaborative inquiry to engage stakeholders

ASU Lodestar Center

Cultivating this discipline of planning can be greatly eased and enhanced by engaging your stakeholders in collaborative inquiry, defined by Jennifer Donahoo as a process that offers participants a systematic way to explore issues and determine resolutions through shared inquiry, reflection, and dialogue. Collecting the data. One of the most.