Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. Evaluation matrix . You’ll also want to create an evaluation matrix—sort of a scorecard—so you can compare your candidates with more objectivity.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We’ll finish with 10 minutes to evaluate the brainstorming session, get clarity on points of agreement and disagreement, and discuss next steps. Ask if anyone has any questions. Tools and techniques, both virtual and in person Tools and techniques that facilitate visual thinking can significantly improve brainstorming outcomes.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Supporters can get more information quickly by asking any questions they have about a message. You can encourage supporters to respond by sending requests for feedback, text surveys, or just letting them know that they can text back with any questions. Getting direct feedback allows your nonprofit to learn more about your donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Prepare for donor questions. Track and incentivize successful conversations. Here are the key components to any phonathon script: Introduction: Answer the most basic questions: Who are you? See how they respond when a donor has questions about the campaign, voices objections, or is looking to complete their transaction.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible. Engage: This is the process of having a conversation around the insights that are being shared. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Major donor prospecting is a research technique used by fundraisers to uncover donor data that will help determine giving capacity and willingness to donate. Once you’ve mastered this part of the process, you can expand your search outwards and evaluate donors who tend to support specific programs. Do they have questions?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. We’ve got an awesome expert here that’ll answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 hour. Really cool conversations, lots of different topics, social justice, criminal justice, I think you talked about last week. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Here’s how it was used during Day 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? Only measure impact, not process. Will we ever move away from the either/or mindset from Jdeancoffey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I’m very interested in the train the trainer concept, so for my own learning I have been taking many trainings to learn new instructional techniques – hopefully gaining some empathy for being a student in a train the trainer session. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. Why Movement Is the Killer App for Training.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition, the nonprofit evaluation services GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have teamed up on something called the "Overhead Myth letter." In mid-November, Idealware held one of its free webinars to address this question. Where can a charity even start to get a handle on this? spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

One thing that stood out in our conversations is that the civic tech field is ready for a deeper dive on outcomes. It’s important to engage your full team, especially tech development staff, early in evaluation planning to ensure that systems are in place to capture the data you’ll need to track progress and assess results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Brand and reputation monitoring for a nonprofit or foundation. Disaster work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. How to mitigate questions of power and competition in the network? How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Ideally, we’d evaluate the previous year of data to observe patterns in different giving cycles. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. Research Questions. Overall site visits. Time spent on the site.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. (I When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Make data-driven decisions only, don't trust your gut ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. My central thesis is that social media can enhance all phases of the instructional design, delivery, and evaluation process: . . How to think like a social instructional designer. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation. It isn't black and white.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “ content fried ” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. There are techniques that we can use to minimize feeling distracted and with some discipline make it of our work flow. Susan Kistler has curated this list on Evaluation.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Though each tool is a little different, they all create opportunities for your organization to start conversations and to show the personal side of, and the personalities behind, your work. That question seems simple enough until you start to think about it. Please share your examples and questions in the comments below!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. My biggest question for these social psychologists is this: how do we apply their lessons to our work? There are many forms of the test and it can be modified to target specific questions of interest.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! Removing those obstacles will boost your conversion rates, which means you’ll attract more donors and raise more money. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been noodling with an evaluation model that looks social media from an organizational perspective - from social networks to social capital (relationships) to action in the real world. Now I'm wondering where the techniques of engagement need to be incorporated. It eventually shifts to two-way conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Through our conversation, we also touched on the metrics for blogs. This is a technique for testing two or more versions. (2) For example, "My hypothesis is that our Facebook Fans are more likely to engage with us when we post links that have a question in the title.". (5) I've learned a lot about metrics from Avinash.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. There was a lot of energy in the room, some very intense conversations and some great ideas were built. What happens when you take away the chairs? Or the tables?

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). OK, these are hard problems to solve.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

This isn't just a rhetorical question. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. What does the word "participatory" mean to you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. Making sure each department can access its data to answer their questions.&#. The organizational dashboard is shared across departments and there is a process for analyzing, discussing, and applying results.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. During The Identification Stage, the goal is to evaluate your current digital marketing strategy (if any) and discover areas for improvement. Let’s begin with an overview of the first phase.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

In practice, it includes sensitivity to conversational turn taking. One leader at Candid wisely uses the progressive stack method , a technique to prioritize voices less-heard in team meetings. A check-in generator is an easy way to change up questions from meeting to meeting. It’s harder to read reactions and feel connected.

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