Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2017

Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. If appropriate for the grant size, is an experienced independent evaluator involved to administer the outcomes measurement plan? Detailed Budget: Does the proposal include a detailed line-item budget?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Before I take you behind the scenes of our NTEN board fundraiser for Giving Tuesday , let me ask you to consider to a donation of any size to support NTEN and the Nonprofit Technology Conference Scholarship campaign. A donation to the NTC scholarship fund will help professionals make it to the 2019 Nonprofit Technology in Portland.

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Giving NTC Portland NTEN 81

Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Frankly, the search, evaluation, interview, and selection process can be very rigorous and time-consuming. Has the organization’s policies, practices, and overall culture been evaluated through the lens of a JEDI approach? . Have you evaluated your public-facing JEDI statements and practices? . Broaden your reach. .

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Consultant Script Evaluation Nonprofit 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

This week before I leave for the Middle East, I will have the honor of presenting at the Grantmakers For Effective Organization’s Conference in Seattle. I am doing a session called “ Learning in Public ” with Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, TCC Group. Stay tuned for a blog post about it.

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Results Seattle Evaluation Michigan 95

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Many of these virtual events were born from a spirit of innovation and resiliency from organizations that were forced to evolve in a matter of days and raise much-needed funds in new ways. In response, we saw an explosion in the number of events that made the pivot from in-person to virtual. 184 days after engaging with a donation page.

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Trend Fundraising Virtual Haiti 261

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I’m quite excited to participate in The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development Conference in London, UK, put on by Indigo Trust , Institute for Philanthropy and the Omidyar Network. Look to fund projects, not products. Debunking Myths About Funding Tech Innovation. “New is Better&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Before I take you behind the scenes of our NTEN board fundraiser for Giving Tuesday , let me ask you to consider to a donation of any size to support NTEN and the Nonprofit Technology Conference Scholarship campaign. A donation to the NTC scholarship fund will help professionals make it to the 2018 Nonprofit Technology in New Orleans.

Giving 75

Giving NTEN NTC Blackbaud 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. They were also able to leverage an evaluation and learning community to develop common definitions for policy. Well…can you have your cake and eat it too? When doesn’t it?

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California Policy Seattle Texas 95

sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

While some work in formal partnerships, many more engage in informal ones where they align funding or work on a project together for a limited time. Oftentimes, local government agencies and other funding organizations like United Way participate. . 4) Comparing Current Funding to Community Needs to Identify Gaps .

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Collaboration Foundation Local Philanthropy 96

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! As this collection of fantastic conferences continues to grow, we'll be updating event details like ticket prices and event hashtags - you're welcome! Drop us a line!

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

AccelEvents

JUNE 16, 2021

In addition to necessities like venue costs and the event staff, you’ll also want to allow for unexpected expenses, emergency funds, and hidden fees that crop up. . You can try to account for the differences with emergency funds or expect this when calculating the estimated ROI. . In that case, you’ll likely need to evaluate.

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Tips ROI Registration Goal 89

NTEN

MAY 1, 2014

After over a decade of convening our signature annual Nonprofit Technology Conference, we are excited to unveil and invite you to our inaugural Leading Change Summit in San Francisco on September 3-6. We will announce the line up of keynote speakers in late May. For more information about the agenda and to register, visit myLCS.nten.org.

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San Francisco NTEN Change NTC 94

DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 8, 2023

The most important step to complete before getting started is to evaluate your organization’s needs. Before you settle on a solution, you’ll need to consider what type of events your team is likely to plan and if the apps you’re evaluating can accommodate the specific needs of each event. Understand your event’s needs.

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Management Registration Integration Platform 52

Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

Evaluating your shortfalls can be hard because often, when you’re smack dab in the middle of a nonprofit, you can’t be objective. Evaluate Your Donor Communications: Why Didn’t This Fundraising Method Work? Did you bog your email down in boring “news” about your Board treasurer’s retirement or your trip to a conference?

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Method Fundraising Social Media Calendar 75

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Each person on your team needs an education plan that becomes part of their ongoing performance evaluation, including expectations of work changes and improvement after their training. Every person in your organization—staff, volunteers, and board members alike—need an annual evaluation of their performance. Step 5: Reevaluate.

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Training Train Volunteer Effective 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO 2012 conference is off to a great start. Teri Behrens, formerly the director of evaluation at the W.

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Culture Public Learning Reflection 91

Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog post , we are asking conference attendees to respond to the question, “Where are you on your journey to measuring outcomes and impact?” Annie asked the panelists if measuring outcomes and impact is on the minds of their board members prior to making funding decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization. Second, being a data geek – these artifacts of learning can help me assess participant understanding of the concepts of crowd funding – and how to improve the content for better understanding.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

DipJar

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For instance, you’ll create a sustainable fundraising model and have reliable funding coming in throughout the year that you can put toward various budgeting needs. This comes in the form of unrestricted revenue, so your organization can put the funds toward necessary but often underfunded operating expenses or future budgeting needs.

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Stream Ideas Gift Grant 52

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Further, many capital campaigns overlook the need for reserve funds to maintain the new or renovated building. Reserve funds for this purpose run about 10% of the capital goal. While you may not be able to budget for all your needs, can you secure adequate capacity funding to advance your advancement program?

Action 75

Action Report Practice Fundraising 75

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

The Analytics Challenge is a ½ day event at X Change conference on September 13th. Semphonic President and Conference Founder Gary Angel says " What a gift to have the best minds in the industry to work together and the big bonus is helping 2 chosen non-profit organizations."" "" Apply today!

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Hunger Web America Case Study 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2007

I am at Lasa Circuit Riders Conference in the UK at the opening plenary session, Spectrogramme - Where do you stand? Sarah Lordes welcomed everyone and introduced the other panelists, Terry Stokes, Marc Osten, and person from ICT Hub evaluation team. External Evaluation Team - half of the team. How can we practice what we do?

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Conference Open Evaluation Org 50

Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. What does a learning consultant do? Organizational Readiness.

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eLearning Consultant Guide Associations 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Professional development plans/funds.

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Culture Activities Active Activism 125

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 9, 2015

This backbone organization is also the key to secured funding and allows stakeholders to focus on reaching their shared goals through pooled resources, rather than the isolated impact created by increased competition for funding.

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Network Organization Change Social 49

NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Donation Impact Share NTC 77

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences, both large and small, broad and specialized, here in the U.S. WHAT IF Conference. Name (a-z).

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There’s something about attending an industry conference that makes you feel more energized and inspired by the work you’re doing. Also, why is it that conference breakfast muffins are the best muffins?) We’ve put together a list of the top nonprofit conferences to attend. 1 fundraising conference is heading north to Canada.

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Conference Las Vegas Fort Worth San Diego 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” We have set up a Web site, [link] , to share information and conversation about the ongoing review.

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Effective Program Work Review 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

As someone who works with nonprofits to build capacity in technology, one always hopes for transformational versus transactional results. Paul’s post unpacks some of the findings from the evaluation, but also raises some important questions about doing transformational capacity building. What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Teach Help Los Angeles Wiki 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter.

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Public Learning Sound Environment 94

NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

While there are always lessons to be learned as we gather feedback—through evaluations, emails, and conversations with members of the Community (yup, we really do read them all)—we wanted to take a moment to share some of the highlights.

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San Jose NTC Proposal NTEN 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The effort is currently undergoing an evaluation which will direct its geographic focus and future online presence. I was moved by the story for the Boston Youth Sports Initiative (LINK TO MY PREVIOUS BLOG POST) where once the funding ended, much of the effort halted. We are a little over two years old and over 1,000 members strong.

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Roles Illinois Evaluation Boston 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Note From Beth: Back in 2011, I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson and Jai Sen from Sen Associates where I learned about research study they were conducting about social media use in the arts. Greatest Challenges.

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Social Media Arts Social Attitude 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The group’s leader is Martin Brookes , a British economist at a hedge fund, who got the idea after a phone call. If you go to a session at a nonprofit conference, you will probably not only find data nerds presenting, but the room might just be packed with them too. “A big U.K.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. Conferences' SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. She previously worked with the Washington, D.C.,

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Difference Game New York City San Francisco 110

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

For those of you unfamiliar with SOCAP16, here is a brief overview: SOCAP16 is “a conference at the intersection of money + meaning.” Among this year’s many themes, I want to highlight two: (1) Impact Investing and (2) Measurement & Evaluation. Hence the conference name: SOcial CAPital. Greetings from San Francisco!

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