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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation?

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EI Helps Teams Use Technology to Fly

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Learn to Reinvent By definition, transformation means a dramatic change. Each quality impacts your organization’s interpersonal dynamics. This personality inventory helps people understand psychological preferences and how they impact behavior. Ask questions that invite self-evaluation. And what do people fear most?

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Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector 

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Ease of access means that with more people using these systems, the potential impact of unethical use grows. As AI is increasingly used in high-impact ways such as writing and assessing grant proposals, how can we make sure that it is used ethically, minimizing the risk of harm? The harmful impact of these early problems was clear.

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Thought Leaders Blaze Trails of Discovery and Engagement

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My YouTube examples don’t quite fit this lofty definition. Thought leadership helps bring your audience on a journey of shared understanding and insights, in order to drive toward impactful solutions. Evaluate Expertise Who exactly are the members of your new brain trust and where will you find them?

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Data to support the relentless pursuit of racial equity 

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This was a considerable commitment, but many in the sector saw a need to measure the impact and effectiveness of such funding—specifically, whether the funds were going to nonprofits led by communities of color or to more traditional, white-led institutions. We decided to develop a shared definition is for benchmarking only.

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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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How to Define, Measure and Communicate Your Impact

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It’s hard to ramp up the good work you do if you don’t know how to concretely define, measure and communicate your impact to supporters. It’s important to learn how to share your efforts with the world, and even more important that you know just how big of an impact you’re making on the issue you’re trying to solve.

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