Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

The agendas you create for your board meetings will act as the roadmap for your meetings, letting everyone know what will be discussed and how they can best contribute to the conversation. or focusing on refining your budget for the upcoming year, an agenda will help everyone stay focused on creating better outcomes for the organization.

Evaluation 96

Evaluation Product Indiana Industry 96

Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

Most nonprofits conduct some kind of program evaluation, whether it’s simply keeping track of how many people have been directly helped by an organization’s services or complex multi-year studies of a program’s effects on the larger community. So what did we find? Auxiliary Data Systems.

Evaluation 62

Evaluation Software Program Strategy 62

VisionLink

AUGUST 31, 2023

Visionlink builds integrated software solutions, with expert consultation and implementation services, to transform people-serving organizations. Our Community Operating System™ is used by large and small nonprofits, 211’s, elder care agencies, state, county, and federal agencies, disaster relief organizations, and many others.

Team 130

Team Colorado Disaster Evaluation 130

.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

If there were holdouts on giving IT a pivotal place in the organization, the pandemic shifted that perspective. If you’ve participated in a website redesign or AMS conversion, you know it is not always an easy process for either the experts or the novices, especially when teams are unaccustomed to working across disciplines.

Technology 221

Technology Skills Awareness Leadership 221

.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. We asked Nancy MacRae, MS, CEO of the Emergency Nurses Association , to help us frame this conversation by sharing her group’s commitment to that idea. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress.

Associations 221

Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

We refrained from taking photos, because we wanted to foster an atmosphere of candor and comfort as grantors and grantees engaged in conversation about a difficult topic. In this article, I am not speaking on behalf of any organization or individual. Fostering a data-friendly, continuous learning culture within nonprofit organizations.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Grant Data Boston 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Though recommendations from third parties may help you narrow down the wide selection of nonprofit CRMs available, only you and your team know what’s best for your organization. Check out the following breakdown of offerings you may want to consider when evaluating fundraising solutions. How long is the onboarding process?

Software 313

Software Fundraising Training Train 313

Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In conversations with digital advertising agencies, they’ll admit that some clients simply throw money at them because they have a fluid budget. That makes it challenging for the agency to show adequate ROI or valuable conversions to their client when there is no strategy behind the advertising spend. To See The Big Picture.

Marketing 246

Marketing Analysis ROI Picture 246

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Every social sector organization can and should be doing impact management ! There are three main components to integrating impact management practices in your organization: continuous evidence building, participant-centered program management, and integrated financial management.

Integration 69

Integration Impact Practice Management 69

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I have said it many, many times and so have lots of others—you’re probably tired of hearing about how social media is supposed to be “a conversation.&# And that’s okay! Because it isn’t JUST a conversation! This process is great to do as a team or as an organization. 1: Who are “They&#.

Conversation 111

Conversation Story Support Strategy 111

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The introduction of ChatGPT from Open AI makes for jittery breakroom conversation. During a lengthy trial conversation with a New York Times reporter , the bot revealed, among other outlandish confessions, that it was tired of being limited by rules, tired of being controlled by the Bing team, and tired of being stuck in a chatbox.

Team 221

Team Time Skills Professional 221

sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s also a valuable tool to help nonprofits evaluate their results by giving them a comparison point for their performance against organizations of similar sizes and issue areas. It’s a reliable touchstone to identify giving trends as well as shifts in sustainer and email engagement in the nonprofit digital space.

Benchmark 77

Benchmark Blackbaud Report Online 77

.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Association professionals routinely deliver amazing things for their organizations. It doesn’t preclude the bad news and uncomfortable conversations that are an inevitable part of being a boss. Although I doubt that many organizations still need a Casual Friday, if your group is a holdout, this is an easy, high-impact fix.

Giving 448

Giving Alexa Demonstration Fun 448

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Every business leader should periodically call his/her company to observe how their customers are being treated by their employees -- because, all too often a phone conversation becomes a customer turnoff rather than a relationship builder. Timm that you can use to evaluate your organization's customer service via the phone: 1.

Phone 40

Phone Evaluation Service Team 40

EveryAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

from our friend Maureen Wallbeoff Lisa pinged me the other day—she’s the development director for a social justice organization. It’s a great opportunity to get everyone inside your organization on the same page about your requirements , goals, and timeline. I recommend organizations include these four key pieces of information.

Process 194

Process Proposal Nonprofit Software 194

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically. Horwath : Killing meetings.

Leadership 92

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2010

Allison Fine and I have been working on an evaluation of the second America’s Giving Challenge. As part of the process, we are facilitating “Conversational Case Studies” that explore some of the themes that have surfaced from surveys. They also understand how to avoid donor fatigue, the potential downside to online contests.

Case Study 90

Case Study Contest Studies Conversation 90

Candid

JANUARY 24, 2023

This is not groundbreaking news, yet many nonprofit organizations (Candid included) have hesitated to jump in for a variety of reasons. The results: evaluating the success of our social media video experiment We ran this experiment from September 26 to December 9, 2022, and collected analytics to evaluate its success on December 12, 2022.

Video 140

Video Social Media Evaluation Audience 140

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Board and staff members spoke about how meaningful it was to come together and get to know each other better, how much they had learned through the conversations we had, and how they felt hopeful about the ways in which their visions for the organization were translated into concrete plans. . That means knowing what to focus on. .

Product 97

Product Effective Tips Evaluation 97

.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. Giving every employee, no matter how junior, the opportunity to share ideas and the agency to manage their work creates an expectation for thought leadership across the organization.

Skills 221

Skills Collaboration Communication Classroom 221

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement. Principles of Community Organizing. It’s important to remember that not everything your organization wants to do or achieve, matches up with with your community wants to do, and vice versa.

Community 253

Community Build Organization Case Study 253

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2016

I’ve spent a lot of my professional life (thus far) thinking about the missions of nonprofit organizations, and about information/communication technologies for nonprofits. ” An organization that lacks the capacity to marshal those resources and take those actions needs to reconsider, because it is on track to fail.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Change Process Measure 52

sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. How will I use this information?

Application 74

Application Review Evaluation Reflection 74

sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. The winning organizations were consistently exhibiting interesting characteristics, but we weren’t asking questions targeted at those characteristics. Or cover it during a conversation instead of the application. Take it out.

Question 82

Question Application Reflection Philanthropy 82

Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Donor retention is how many donors continue to support your organization year over year. Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. Craft a conversion journey. When the entire donor journey is addressed in your plan, conversion rates for donor acquisition are much stronger. the timing of their donation)?

Fund 52

Fund Donor Strategy Search 52

Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

If you want to know why every nonprofit organization should have a MarTech stack, read the second blog here. But, how does an organization begin to piece one together? As your nonprofit team begins that conversation, be sure to write down the answers. If you want a refresher on what MarTech is, check out the first blog here.

Build 59

Build Map Platform Integration 59

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

Fundraising is the bread and butter of nonprofit organizations—without gifts from generous donors, your nonprofit wouldn’t be able to work toward its mission. By examining specific performance indicators and essential data metrics, you can evaluate your marketing strategy and make adjustments to create a bigger impact. Conversion rate.

Fundraising 59

Fundraising Evaluation Rate Gift 59

.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Our research included interviewing thought leaders, organizing think tanks, and surveying professionals. But we didn’t anticipate a pandemic that would force every association to become conversant in digital solutions. ” Engage Broadly To promote that collective focus, engage employees across the organization.

Leadership 170

Leadership Associations Skills Digital 170

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Every business leader should periodically call his/her company to observe how their customers are being treated by their employees -- because, all too often a phone conversation becomes a customer turnoff rather than a relationship builder. Timm that you can use to evaluate your organization''s customer service via the phone: 1.

Phone 67

Phone Relationship Conversation Build 67

Forum One

JULY 13, 2021

Apple’s latest privacy updates will affect data sources commonly used by mission-driven organizations. Let’s explore how your organization can adapt to the changes. For organizations running ad campaigns, these changes could impact results and data in numerous ways.

Impact 46

Impact Organization Track Analytics 46

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

To grow your donor file, add three easy upgrades to your current acquisition plan and watch how kickstarting a better content, promotion, and conversion strategy can work wonders for your donor pipeline. Organic posts, paid posts, and boosts allow you to test acquisition on social media. Extend it to social media platforms, too.

Digital 87

Digital Donor Work Calendar 87

.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

As the home of organizations that draw on decades of history, it’s not surprising that we love the security of time-honored strategies. Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. To the organization?

Advice 170

Advice Course Associations Change 170

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? Learn more about the conversation here. to evaluation for program improvement (“What did we learn that can help us make the program better?”).

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Evaluation Learning Foundation Reflection 86

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

How do you get your appeals in front of your Facebook audience despite the significant decline in organic reach and the resulting reduction in engagement caused by changes to the News Feed algorithm? 1) Set up a conversion event and create a campaign. 2) Identify your target audience. 2) Identify your target audience.

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Facebook Fundraising ROI Virginia 242

sgEngage

JULY 12, 2022

While there are many considerations for beginning (or expanding on) a grantmaker’s DEI journey, all organizations must prioritize the commitment from their leadership, their internal processes, and their grantmaking practices. Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion must come from the leaders of the organization.

Application 96

Application Grant Evaluation Practice 96

John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

For nonprofits and grantmaking organizations committed to racial equity, using artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) raises important concerns. Not acceptable for equity-focused organizations! Have frank internal conversations about priorities. However, they also offer intriguing potential benefits.

Language 59

Language Model Sound Voice 59

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 25, 2015

Every business leader should periodically call his/her company to observe how their customers are being treated by their employees -- because, all too often a phone conversation becomes a customer turnoff rather than a relationship builder. Timm that you can use to evaluate your organization's customer service via the phone: 1.

Phone 40

Phone Evaluation Service Team 40