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3 Ways to Integrate Impact Management Practices in Your Organization

Saleforce Nonprofit

It’s true that rigorous evaluation is critical, but right-sizing your evaluation is equally important. Sometimes, third-party evaluation, which includes rigorous study design and statistical analysis, is required to properly understand a program’s impact. Participant-Centered Program Management. Integrated Financial Management.

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New on SSIR: Innovating at the Speed of Communities

Amy Sample Ward

Here’s my latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR Blog or below. “Innovating at the speed of communities&# is a big goal, but something organizations and civic institutions can learn a lot from as a model. Communities As A Model.

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Community Building begins with Community Organizing

Amy Sample Ward

If you’re making connections and supporting conversations across the network, you’re helping the community create strong ties that will not require your time and energy to maintain. You can model behavior all you want but if no one can tell what tools you are using to be so successful, there’s no way they can jump in and help man the ship.

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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

The Vera Institute (2015) offers this definition of social impact bonds: “In a social impact bond, private investors fund an intervention through an intermediary organization—and the government repays the funder only if the program achieves certain goals, which are specified at the outset of the initiative and assessed by an independent evaluator.”.

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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation, Case Studies, and Workshop

Amy Sample Ward

Often times the community’s ideas or needs are shared in ways that require translation, of sorts—someone that can bridge the community and organization, listening to the conversations and identifying the opportunities for the organization. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. What’s the foundation of CDSI? Case Studies.

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Additional models of collaboration from The Collaboration Prize will be added soon. Check it out!

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Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think They Should Do Their Work!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We have set up a Web site, [link] , to share information and conversation about the ongoing review. Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011).