Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 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. It also sounds less costly and complicated than evaluation. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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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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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. Google Ad Grants. If an event that you run one year is particularly popular, evaluate what went well and what could be improved. Google Ad Grants.

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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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Candid

APRIL 15, 2024

Whether for expanding programs, launching new initiatives, or sustaining current projects, securing institutional funding is crucial to your organization’s ability to deliver on your mission. Institutional funders are typically organizations with large budgets and long grant cycles, such as government agencies, corporations, and foundations.

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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. Let’s say you saved even an hour’s worth of paperwork per grant.

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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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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.” Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the other hand, new grant opportunities came to light, and if you were good at identifying them, you made your case to individual donors. 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.

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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

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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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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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The day I heard about the concept for this gathering of grant makers I knew I had to be involved. The effort is currently undergoing an evaluation which will direct its geographic focus and future online presence. Guest post from Annie Hernandez. It totally lived up to and exceeded my expectations. What do members give to get?

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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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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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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2011

We host the same special event each year or we submit the same grant application each year. It works for a while, but then attendance starts to drop off or our grant is no longer funded. But it’s a good idea to evaluate your work habits periodically to make sure they still work.

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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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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We’ll go over how to evaluate your organization’s own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employee engagement strategies later on. Empower them to experience all your community has to offer by providing funds for social outings. However, as we’ll explore later, there are plenty of ways to engage remote employees as well.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 18, 2011

We host the same special event each year or we submit the same grant application each year. It works for a while, but then attendance starts to drop off or our grant is no longer funded. But it’s a good idea to evaluate your work habits periodically to make sure they still work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

One of my main projects this past year, and continuing into 2015 was to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If you missed this year’s conference, you can still use the below points to power new strategies and optimize existing ones. . That means marketing, finance, analytics, grants management, and more. A tool that can help you evaluate the effectiveness of your program, it forces you to identify your desired outcomes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Granted, due to the limitations of fully automated conversion, this is not perfect braille, and we continuously work with experts to improve the quality of our Braille Ready Files (in the BRF format). At Benetech, we agree that braille is an essential literacy tool and that every child who needs it has the right to be taught braille.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Government funding and donor support. This may include identifying new sources of funding, developing new programs and services, or expanding your organization’s reach and impact. This could include a regimented plan to apply for grants, organize fundraising events, or reach out to potential donors. . Volunteer recruiting.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. These are the two extremes; there are many scenarios in between.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Convening authority: If you convene coalitions or conferences or other thought leaders this can be a powerful asset that creates trust and reputation as being an essential player in your sector. Name something in your building after them like the conference table, the kitchen, the board room, or even a vestibule! Program-Related Perks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The authors are David Brotherton and Cynthia Scheiderer who will present the report at the upcoming Communications Network conference. How will ideas and feedback generated from online communications influence grant decision-making? tools and techniques.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this resource, we’ll guide you through how to holistically evaluate ROI, including direct and indirect costs and savings, how long it will take to get a return, and tying it all back to the goals of your team to make a powerful case for change. Reduction of time spent on grant reports. Increase in single donations. We hope it helps!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

If you all don’t know Marie, she is the lead consultant over at Funding for Good. If you don’t know Funding for Good, their principal, Mandy Pearce, has been on our webinar series many, many times over the last few years, recommended Marie as her top expert. You may be saying, “What do donors want to fund?”

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And obviously, the majority of the funds are raised in the capital campaign. What’s our capacity to raise those funds? That’s our internal evaluation of are they even ready? Brian: You know, adding that to your annual fund is key. That may be the state of the union for them.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

I think some fund-raisers have developed terrific intuitions, passed on through the fraternity of fund-raisers,” says Paul Brest, president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, Calif., Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! They seem so sensible.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I have evaluated a number of options, and every one of them comes up short in one way or another. at 9:18 am { 18 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tracey Grant 08.17.07 Go to freeconference.com and login to set up a web-scheduled conference with desktop sharing. 6 trackbacks } The Webinar Blog 08.23.07

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

Funded by the John S. Knight Foundation through their Knight Cities Challenge grant, Next Stop: Democracy! This “millennial conference” gathers leaders, activists and social entrepreneurs to “act and find creative solutions for social issues.” and James L. It was an incredibly moving experience for all of us.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Daring to Lead report finds that a full 55% of your peer executives name technology as a “depleting” aspect of their job (it would have been the most depleting of all options surveyed, if not for the joys of HR – like evaluating and hiring/firing staff). Grant fundraising and foundations. Telephones & voicemail.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

Jessica Holliday, NTEN’s Operations Director, learned a lot at the Do Good Data Conference in Chicago last week and chose to share some highlights with us. However there is immediate value to the partners in the form of a dashboard and metrics for applying for grants, etc. Did you attend the Do Good Data Conference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A few months ago, Eric Ries and his team invited me to cover the The Lean Start Up Conference this week. During the conference, with the help of Twitter, a few of us from the nonprofit sector were able to find each other and have an impromptu lunch conversation about applying lean to the noprofit work.

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