Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. It comes down to organizational culture. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2012

This week, KD Paine and I, did a whirlwind tour of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” book talks in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Many thanks to our generous hosts including the Foundation Center/SF, Zero Divide, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, TechSoup Global, and Stanford University. … Read More

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

End-of-year performance reviews are just around the corner and this week’s Mind the Gap column from McKinsey features tips on how to navigate feedback with Gen Z workers , both from the employer and employee perspectives. Become a Coach, not a Reviewer.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

One of the best ways to attract talent is by creating a culture that encourages retention from the get-go. Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. Soft skills are typically shown through previous experience and hard skills can be measured through technical assessments.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

One of the best ways to attract talent is by creating a culture that encourages retention from the get-go. Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. Soft skills are typically shown through previous experience and hard skills can be measured through technical assessments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

One of the things that I love at the Packard Foundation is the learning culture. Business plans are not difficult to measure and the process is a discipline process of asking questions. How will they measure success? Do you have a measurement system to help you track impact along the way and improve what you’re doing?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. Existing research identifies gaps in the ways in which community engagement is measured. Nonprofit organizations can benefit from this working model as it can be a useful tool in achieving a participatory culture.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In high-performing, flexible organizations, this openness to productive change–inclusion–becomes the status quo,” write Scott Nielsen and Helena Huang in the National Civic Review. The Council on Nonprofits has samples to review. Develop an organizational diversity and inclusion statement for staff and board. Invest in training.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Unhealthy leadership cultures are often evidenced by one of two polarized governance styles: micromanagement or rubberstamping. Understanding where the board ends and staff begins is the first step to ensuring a positive and productive internal work culture. . How often will our board conduct performance reviews?

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

More importantly, it creates a culture of security to safeguard their trust. This can be done internally or through external review by a consultant. Foster a Culture of Security Your digital ecosystem is made of up three parts: People, Systems, and Processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

It is playbook details the practices for high performance including: testing ideas, measuring impact, funding experimentation, leading collaboratively, and sharing compelling stories. How do you measure that impact? How to create a culture of testing and get funding for experiments? How do you tell your story with data?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Be clear in how you measure job performance so everyone on your team understands their duties and the expectations around their role. Measure the most important goals that lead to results. For example, you may want to measure total visits, the number of proposals submitted, the dollars raised, and first-time or qualification visits.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Often, nonprofits react to funders’ requirements regarding what to measure, though it can be difficult to obtain funding for impact measurement. Measuring impact and managing outcomes is at the core of the work performed by nonprofits, academia, foundations, corporate social responsibility (CSR) teams, and more.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

You should also host regular training sessions with your team members to review: Ethical considerations: AI tools have shortcomings. Impact measurement: Have open discussions about the effectiveness of AI and decide how you will monitor its success. This includes providing them with educational resources and hands-on training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2023

Eight cybersecurity strategies Following are eight cybersecurity measures nonprofit web managers can adopt to help protect their websites and stay ahead of new threats. Non-technical Promote a strong password culture. Organizations should regularly review and update security measures to avoid new threats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post called “ Why the Nonprofit Work Ethic Is Outdated and Needs Change ,” about why nonprofit professionals need to pay attention to self-care and bring a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace. (The The topic of my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout ).

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sgEngage

JUNE 15, 2023

But once the risk is identified, it can be measured and planned for. The annual financial audit is a great time to review your statements through a risk lens and search the corners of your financial statements for long-forgotten issues that could contaminate an entire balance sheet. Planning efforts are largely forward-looking.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 19, 2022

Taking steps to create a staff survey and respond to the feedback can improve your association’s productivity and redefine the work culture. . Decide if you plan on measuring employee engagement, satisfaction, motivation, or performance so you can have a clear indicator of success. times more likely to complete their best work.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 27, 2022

Review website data and consider membership renewal activity, abandoned shopping carts, and highly-trafficked and inactive website locations. As you develop a communication plan, ensure you consider key performance indicators to determine how you’ll measure success. Embrace a change management culture.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Resources, symbolic attraction of alliance members, and expanded networks” as stated in a review from AIM Alliance , are all compelling benefits to joining forces, however, organizations should proceed with caution as these solutions are not sole problem solvers. Measure and share impact. Recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

Other evaluation forms include: process evaluation, which requires that specific program activities and procedures be reviewed in order to help explain why a program worked or did not work; and program monitoring, which uses in-process measures to track whether a program is being executed as designed. Nonprofits and evaluation.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement. Diversity Metrics.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. To get a better grasp on this, let’s look at the different types of analytics and what they measure. There are so many things you can measure in Google Analytics, but you’re not going to use all of this information.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For instance, if you use Blackbaud as a CRM provider, you may review their partner network , define how your system will connect with various partners, and explore the data migration process. Additionally, it can be beneficial to host these meetings on a regular basis to review updates made to the system and answer any lingering questions.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2023

For instance, you might consider how to further empower your major gifts team to conduct more in-depth prospect research or ask yourself how you could improve your internal culture to reduce turnover. Set measurable goals. Consider the current economic and political climate, for example.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

In an article for the Stanford Social Innovation Review Monisha Kapila says “The nonprofit sector is known for underinvesting in talent. The HPT emits a culture of passion, innovation, drive and collaboration. Measure Performance. Approach Human Resources Strategically. Create a Development Plan.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Review previous year-end campaigns to understand what drove results and what fell flat. Reinforce roles, foster a culture of collaboration and alignment towards campaign objectives. Setting Up Tracking and Metrics What’s measured gets managed. Auditing Past Campaigns Learning from the past helps light the path forward.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

Measuring Success and Making Adjustments: Set measurable goals for your campaign, like a target number of testimonials collected or a specific number of stories from each stakeholder group. Regularly review the progress of your campaign. We encourage you to embrace the strategies and insights shared in this guide.

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Gyrus

APRIL 7, 2016

Even companies who have a proper compliance methodology get caught in the midst of changing regulated environment, new compliance measures, etc. Let’s look at ways through which organizations can develop a compliance culture and be prepared for compliance audits.

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Neon CRM

JULY 21, 2023

It is your board’s job to set goals for all of these initiatives and then measure progress against them. They should implement a review process (usually an annual review) that objectively assesses the executive’s performance in their role and sets new goals and incentives for future performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data. Need a culture of inquiry, sharing what works, what doesn’t. Measure success against predetermined outcomes. Before Action Review/ After Action Review. Evaluation should not be separate from what we do.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

In this blog, you’ll learn about: Annual Giving, Donor Retention, Major & Legacy Gifts, Online Fundraising, Boards & Leadership, Content Marketing, Social Engagement , Strategy & Management, and Culture & Values. Claire Axelrad ( @charityclairity on Twitter) has been called a Fundraising Ninja, and we have to agree.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Collect and review any qualitative feedback you’ve received from applicants in the past. Does it ask for information that is relevant, respectful, and inclusive of your grantees’ identities, cultures, and contexts? Does it ask for information that helps you measure your progress, evaluate your impact, or learn from your failures?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Taking proactive measures. Good Survive is proactive Survive, and Steady state Survive is made up of the continual proactive measures leaders can take to ensure long-term stabilization. Plans ask us to review regularly and ask the question: Are we on track? Moving quickly in response to disruptions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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