Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For instance, your marketing team may use AI to come up with new, creative ideas for blog content, but they should still be in charge of writing it themselves. You should also host regular training sessions with your team members to review: Ethical considerations: AI tools have shortcomings. Conduct staff training.

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Candid

MAY 15, 2024

By doing so, we start to build relationships early and reduce the amount of time and energy applicants spend on their proposals, while also reducing the amount of HF staff time spent on the review process. If a metric isn’t reflective of the impact they want to make, then why collect it?

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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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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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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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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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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 Gabriela Schneider, Chief Communications Officer at Issue One.

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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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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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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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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. The post Nonprofit Strategic Planning: 4 Tips to Shape Your Future first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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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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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll unveil the art of transforming individual stories into a collective force that not only resonates with your audience but also propels your cause forward. Regularly review the progress of your campaign. Your next game-changing testimonial could be just a conversation away.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

3 Data from our 2021 Industry Review shows that over $2.8 Ignoring polarizing social justice issues can even increase unconscious biases that could wreak havoc on your culture.” Q: One of the tips from Harvard Business Review 2 on how to set up programs for success is to set goals, collect data and examine change overtime.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can review nonprofits’ tax returns on GuideStar to find out more about their budgets, expenses, and how much top salaried employees are paid. On-demand trainings can be taken any time, with recent topics including fostering an inclusive culture , finding funding , and writing grant proposal budgets. Candid.org .

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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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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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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2021

That’s not our culture. preparing reports, securing signoffs, participating in review meetings, etc.)? I measure progress in days and weeks, not months and quarters. And, do your best to banish these common objections when solving for new problems and forging new paths: We don’t have the budget. We'll never get it past legal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

Two new books on measurement and analytics came to my attention this week. ” Here’s a quick review of both books. .” ” Here’s a quick review of both books. Hunter who shares his approach to working with top nonprofits organizations to embrace performance management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of my favorite things about writing a blog, are the conversations in the comments and sidebars (private email conversation). Sam's story illustrates the pressing need for culture change within nonprofits or as colleague, Allison Fine , puts it "organizational silos prevent people from empowering their edge." .

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Your goals should always be SMART goals to ensure that you can easily measure your progress throughout the year and understand how to tweak your strategy to reach your goals. SMART goals are goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. Make sure it’s authentic and true to your organization’s culture.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. Marcus Buckingham Question : What’s fundamentally wrong with our current emphasis on workplace culture? Goodall is Senior Vice President of Leadership and Team Intelligence at Cisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar.

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EveryAction

MAY 23, 2016

This guest post originally appeared on Idealist Careers blog. On top of that, those accustomed to a traditional corporate hierarchy structure and raise-and-review process aren’t always likely to find the same at a nonprofit. Measuring impact has more to do with building awareness in issue areas and the larger public conversation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

That’s not our culture. preparing reports, securing signoffs, participating in review meetings, etc.)? I measure progress in days and weeks, not months and quarters. And, do your best to banish these common objections when solving for new problems and forging new paths: We don’t have the budget. We'll never get it past legal.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

Strategic Alignment The easiest first step is to review the overarching goals and success factors from your strategic plan. Then, ask each department which of their goals align with the association’s overarching goals and how they plan to measure their efforts. Are the goals measurable or are they “feeling” focused?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

That’s not our culture. preparing reports, securing signoffs, participating in review meetings, etc.)? I measure progress in days and weeks, not months and quarters. And, do your best to banish these common objections when solving for new problems and forging new paths: We don’t have the budget. We'll never get it past legal.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

When’s the last time you reviewed your plans or asked for feedback from your team? Gail Perry’s insightful blog post and scorecard will give you a realistic measurement into the organization and productivity of your programs. . Read Erica Waasdorp’s 4 Ways to Improve Donor Retention and Recruit Sustainers blog post.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2021

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. Marcus Buckingham Question : What’s fundamentally wrong with our current emphasis on workplace culture? Goodall is Senior Vice President of Leadership and Team Intelligence at Cisco.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 8, 2014

posted by Terry McManus Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, TGen Foundation We all know the old adage “what gets measured gets done,” but knowing what to measure is easier said than done. The system will not work if it is only visited once per year during employee annual reviews. Fundraising outcomes (i.e.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 6, 2020

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. Marcus Buckingham Question : What’s fundamentally wrong with our current emphasis on workplace culture? Goodall is Senior Vice President of Leadership and Team Intelligence at Cisco.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

The Center developed a social media strategy, but did not finalize it until after a half-day staff meeting to review the plan and think about the realities of implementation. All ongoing work is placed into the shared folder, and team members are notified when it is ready for review. The knowledge doesn't just reside with one person."

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. Marcus Buckingham Question : What’s fundamentally wrong with our current emphasis on workplace culture? Goodall is Senior Vice President of Leadership and Team Intelligence at Cisco.

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Work Cisco Culture Knowledge Worker 52

Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For purposes of “reasonable” cybersecurity measures, the FTC provides this language: “Employing reasonable safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity or availability of data given the type, amount and sensitivity of that data in relation to the size, sophistication and capability of the organization.” Understand the risk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

The first day focused on networks and strategic use of social media along with some practical skills in content creation and measurement. Participants reviewed the social media policy from TNT , which has been translated into Spanish, to see how it could be adapted for their regional network.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Can you make the culture real—and matter? While every team is a work in progress, and must constantly be refreshed with people who have the skills to take the company to the next level, a measure of success will come from clarity around answers to each of those questions, which are too frequently overlooked and result in dysfunctional teams.

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