sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who owns the information collected?

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

When the Supreme Court gutted race-conscious admissions last summer and the American Alliance for Equal Rights followed with a lawsuit against the Fearless Fund, some in the philanthropic sector feared that demographic data had become a potential liability. They built a public API and released a public data set.

Data 98

Data Demographics Aggregator Participatory 98

Bloomerang

JANUARY 3, 2022

After you’re done celebrating your wins, it’s time to evaluate the success of your end-of-year fundraising campaign. . Why you should evaluate your end-of-year fundraising campaign . When evaluating your year-end campaign , look at the whole picture. 11 metrics to evaluate your end-of-year fundraising campaign .

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

When you’re halfway through the year, it’s a good time to conduct a midyear fundraising evaluation. A midyear evaluation will show you how you are doing and highlight areas where you need to improve. And you’ll know exactly how much you need to raise during that season if you take the time to do a midyear evaluation now.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2021

A report from the Equitable Evaluation Initiative (EEI) and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations highlights how foundations are working to integrate an equity lens into their evaluation practices. In their engagement with the framework, practitioners identified three key shifts in mindset: from “doing” to “being” (i.e.,

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Evaluation Practice Report PDF 98

Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Based on Candid data processed as of October 2023, approximately 78,133 grants valued at $16.8 My many years of experience collecting and analyzing data as an evaluator naturally lead me to ask: What has been the measurable impact of this important shift? billion have been awarded to advance racial equity since 2020.

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Data Support Demographics Evaluation 59

Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

Forward-looking nonprofit organizations know that leveraging data is key to determining where a community’s unmet needs are, securing resources to address those needs, and advocating for more effective policies. Individual donors and foundations increasingly view data “ as the fuel for innovation and social change.”

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Resource Data Community Aggregator 59

Association Analytics

JULY 27, 2021

Using data in your content strategy will help you identify what content members value most, what isn’t resonating and what needs to be tweaked. Here are some tips for using data to create relevant content for your members and customers. Here are some tips for using data to create relevant content for your members and customers.

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Taxonomy Content Data Strategy 169

Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

Data provides actionable insights and can give associations a navigable path to make better informed business decisions. And yet, the ability to use data to serve your association’s mission has never been more important and timely. Developing a SMART goal is seldom complex from a data standpoint. Engage in Analysis.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Nonprofits collect and generate vast amounts of data, ranging from individual donors’ contact information to program outcomes, but they often struggle with organizing and utilizing the information effectively. This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits. We’ll cover: What is a Nonprofit Data Warehouse?

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Data Guide Proposal Nonprofit 52

.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Fundraising Data: The Secret Weapon for Event Success During the Greater Giving hosted webinar Data-Driven Events: Elevating Fundraising Success , Stephen Kilbreath and Julianne Read of Kilbreath Events discussed the power of data-driven fundraising. Ask lots of questions of your data to get answers that will help you.

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Data Fundraising Donor Survey 52

sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Create a Policies and Procedures Manual Once a new employee joins your team, having a comprehensive document outlining standard procedures for data entry will make that transition much easier on both the individual and the staff members training them. Record that institutional knowledge in an accessible Policies and Procedures manual.

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Data Blackbaud Policy Database 74

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JULY 13, 2018

I’m doing a happy dance, because the Foundation Center ‘s GrantSpace blog has published my article on “The Power of Dialogue on Nonprofit Data and Evaluation.” This is a blog article about a blog article. ” Please feel free to read the article and give me your feedback!

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Evaluation Data Foundation Nonprofit 52

Nucleus

OCTOBER 1, 2020

To grow your education business, you need to take advantage of the sophisticated metrics now available through modern data analytics – trends, behaviors, preferences, popularity, geography and much more. If your association is like most today, you use a variety of software systems and there is useful member data contained in each of them.

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Learning Management Associations Data Learning 130

Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

On July 1, 2024, Google will permanently remove access to all Universal Analytics data. Organizations need to act before that deadline if they want to preserve their historical data. With the GA4 rollout, standard UA properties ceased collecting new data on July 1, 2023. Can I migrate data or reports from UA to GA4?

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Analytics University Data API 45

sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Data is power and behind every data point is a human story. Your data tells you who is supporting your mission and offers insights into how, when, and even why they choose to give. Building an informed strategic plan relies on your ability to gather, interpret, optimize, and safeguard this data.

Government 78

Government Data Adopt Change Management 78

Candid

MAY 4, 2023

Since 2014, Candid has been collecting demographic data about the people who work at U.S. To date, over 54,000 organizations have shared some data about how their staff and/or board identify by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or disability status. Demographic data sharing varies by nonprofit subject category.

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Demographics Share Data Taxonomy 98

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

While usage is a great data point to evaluate your product’s success, there’s so much more to consider when weighing the options to build an in-house solution or use an off-the-shelf product. Throughout the evaluation process, it’s important to keep your association’s unique goals and success metrics top-of-mind.

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Software Build Evaluation Metrics 321

Volunteer Hub

MAY 18, 2023

Evaluate Program Effectiveness: Volunteer Engagement Surveys allow nonprofits to assess the effectiveness of their volunteer programs and identify areas of strength and weakness. This evaluation can help fine-tune program structures, training methods, and task assignments.

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Survey Volunteer Impact Data 72

.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. Evaluate Resources IT deficits equal a rocky road for remote work. Remember Management by Walking Around?

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 22, 2022

How should you interpret data from several different reports that seem to convey conflicting information? Let’s take a look at three reports to identify what they are individually evaluating, so we can start to understand what type of knowledge we want to take from each.

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Report Trend Giving Evaluation 266

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. Understanding the real cost in dollars to grantees who provide the data reporting and evaluation that you request.

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Evaluation Grant Data Boston 52

NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2014

"Check your assumptions at the meeting room door" and other lessons learned from NTEN's meta-evaluation process. Evaluating our evaluation. In creating the newly launched series of worksheets supporting data-informed nonprofits, that''s exactly what we did. Data evaluation idealware Leadership'

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Evaluation NTEN Sample Lesson 74

sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2024

If you are unclear about your needs, abilities, and opportunities, you will quickly find it difficult to vet vendors and evaluate CRMs, not to mention bringing internal stakeholders onboard or getting sign-off at key stages. 2 Do you have any gaps in your current data management process?

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Fundraising Evaluation New Zealand Data 63

NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Director of Evaluation. Regardless of your personal or organization’s viewpoint on the use of data, you, like many nonprofit professionals, may be asked to serve as an “accidental evaluator:” you may not be trained in evaluation, but you are asked to do it anyway as part of your job. Laura Beals.

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Evaluation Boston Measure Data 87

VisionLink

AUGUST 31, 2023

You will build data capture and management solutions, work on data migrations and conversions, build reports and analytics, and create website pages using HTML4. WITHINREACH OPENINGS Senior Manager for Data Systems and Evaluation Location: Remote - This is a remote position, but employees must live and work in WA state.

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Team Colorado Disaster Evaluation 130

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of nonprofit organizations, the ability to harness data for informed decision-making is more critical than ever. Whether you’re implementing a new CRM or looking to refamiliarize your staff with an existing system, these insights will help you pursue your data-driven endeavors.

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Training Train Team Data 52

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Social media trends and best practices change so often that it’s helpful to ground your approach in data and regularly reevaluate your social media presence as your supporter base grows and changes. In this article, we’ll give you five tips to upgrade your social media strategy using data. Philanthropic data.

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Social Media Data Media Atlanta 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

We know that data is a scary word for many. Why event registration and data collection are important to nonprofits It’s true you can post on social media to get supporters’ attention, but that’s kind of like throwing spaghetti at a wall and hoping some of it’ll stick. Use event data to find someone who might step into that role!

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Chapter Registration Data Education 298

Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

If you’re looking for ways to evaluate your current agendas and optimize them for efficiency, you’ve come to the right place! prepare data. Whether you’re strategizing about. how board members can help drive attendance at your next big event. budget preparation. to major departmental status updates, everyone needs advance warning to.

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Evaluation Product Indiana Industry 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Last spring at the “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations ” meeting convened by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, practitioners from social media, measurement, evaluation, programs, communication, and philanthropy worked on a synthesis of these disciplines to address measurement. Technology!

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Evaluation Generation Change Measure 114

DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

A nonprofit technology assessment is an evaluation of the digital maturity of your organization. Data: Is your data “clean?” Do you have standardized practices for data management ? Areas where current software can be improved (ex: data hygiene, software integration, customizations).

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Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As a nonprofit leader, you know the importance of donor data. But your data collection contains sensitive information about your supporters, and they trust you to handle that data carefully. Thankfully, your nonprofit constituent relationship management (CRM) system can help keep donor data safe.

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Data Donor Software Nonprofit 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. ” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Formative Evaluation.

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

There are technology tools that can make information and data analytics accessible to everyone. Data management platforms are constantly improving their user-friendliness, flexibility, and reporting capacity. Promote data sharing across the organization, and reward people for effectively using new analytic tools.

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