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. Mine are based on what I learned during the dialogue series, and also on untold numbers of public and private conversations on the topic. __.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and evaluate if you’re doing everything possible to get your message heard. By the end of this guide, you’ll learn how to get your content read … how to build brand authority & trust… And how to grow your revenues online.

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Digital Marketing Guide Chapter 111

Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap. When evaluating the effectiveness of eLearnings it is vital that we keep in mind exactly what we are trying to accomplish; then craft exceedingly mindful learning experiences to ensure the highest possible return on our investment. Learning Styles. With new media comes challenges.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

How We Learn – Capitalize On Knowing. This post is written based on my personal understanding and could reflect deficiencies experienced in my own personal learning process. To begin we should evaluate what a younger version of myself experienced in the learning process. Do the one-size fits all approach not work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Learning in Public Challenges and Actions – guest post by Annie Hernandez. I went to the Learning in Public session expecting to hear that the process the Packard Foundation used to evaluate their capacity building work was wildly successful. Would this make sense for an evaluation you are in the process of completing?

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

In 2002, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills identified a set of qualities they consider most important for learning in the digital era. A culture of learning, where curiosity is valued and debate encouraged, creates fertile ground for critical thinking.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

Mobile Learning – Is it Finally Viable? Mobile Learning has been a cool shining beacon in the learning industry for quite a while now. But with new technologies, sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself, is it just being used for the sake of the media itself, or is it actually adding to my blended learning portfolio?

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2023

Do you have the evaluation expertise required to evaluate grant activities? This is crucial, as being able to evaluate your progress and level of attainment of stated objectives is essential for all grant projects. Keep in mind, sometimes funds for the evaluation component will be included in your requested grant budget.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process. It appears that the work of a learning professional is never done. In order to establish an effective learning program, there must be a great consideration for the future needs of the day to day business, and the workforce themselves. Learning is a fairly nebulous industry.

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Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

What Pokémon Go Means to the Learning Industry. So, how can this apply to the corporate learning environment? Pokémon Go is great as it is, however, the possibilities of new and more enthralling mLearnings are a real game changer for the learning industry. Augmented Reality. Gamification.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do. I went to school for music education and, up until this point, had a long-winding road learning how to write code in Google Apps Script. What am I talking about?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 28, 2021

You have to learn how to use it to its full potential to get the maximum benefit! To make the transition to using Salesforce as seamless as possible, it’s always helpful to learn tips from other organizations in their use of Salesforce. Hiring and Learning From a Consultant Can Be a Helpful Step in the Right Direction.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Below I’ll share what that research involved and what we learned. . So, to be clear, I’m not claiming that these two studies give definitive new rules to follow by any means. . However, based on what our research showed, here are a few things I would consider when evaluating your current mission statement or drafting your first one: .

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2023

Women are drawn to an expanded definition of philanthropy, tapping into all their resources—not just money but also their time, expertise, advocacy, and networks—to support the causes they care about. Learn more and register online at: [link] Want to learn more about what this means for grantmakers? Women give broadly.

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Honduras Philanthropy Iran Michigan 83

Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition. The first two topics will focus on the direction of the “Learning Management Systems Industry (LMS).” The ways in which people learn are being considered universally in the production of learnings and how users interact.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

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. Impact,” by definition, is the action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another. Collect information as you go to evaluate performance.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

What Nonprofit Leadership Really Is By definition, a leader is someone in a position of authority with the responsibility to guide a group. Whether you consider yourself a leader or not, there are specific nonprofit leadership skills you can learn that will help you reach your goals and fulfill your organization’s mission faster.

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Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

Depending on your organizational culture, you may need to expand your definition of who is a major donor. Start by selecting a gift level and definition for major donor that aligns with your organization’s data and values. Establish a program evaluation cadence and set goals to take your program to the next level. Keep growing.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 26, 2021

Definitely time for a coach. . Here are some questions to ask yourself when evaluating your options: Do I aspire to be more like them? Do I learn from them already—even before I’ve hired them? Do other people I respect also learn from them and have good things to say? A coach is a great idea. You’re past due for a coach.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Since then, Candid has been evaluating the way we identify this type of giving, both going forward and looking back over the last decade. Updating our definition of racial equity to a changing world . What we learned . Over the last year, we’ve worked with PRE to address both issues in the recent data set update. .

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. Learning and knowledge are intimately connected but are actually different. Learning, we do naturally.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

There are more and more resources and opportunities for nonprofit professionals seeking to learn about how to use measurement and data. I would describe less of a handbook on how to use data, and more of a recipe to become a learning organization. Here’s some thoughts about each section: What Data to Collect. Meaning Making.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 25, 2021

As improving community health becomes a definitive strategic priority for most hospitals, development must learn a new “beat” – and cultivate a relationship with a new champion. One great first step is learning more about your community benefit colleague’s key priorities. This individual? Amplifying community voices.

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Fundraising Benefit Relationship Knowledge 94

Volunteer Hub

MARCH 7, 2022

Still others come with the desire to learn something new. If you dig deeper, however, you’ll learn that Susan is volunteering to get away from the stress of her day job, and that she really wants to become part of the volunteer training team. Others may volunteer to enhance certain skills or maintain ones they already possess.

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Retention Volunteer Mentoring Skills 92

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Here are the top 10 most clicked articles from the 408 links featured in this year’s 51 newsletters – 10 articles your peers digged so much you should definitely check them out as well. What did we learn? The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT. There is a flaw at the heart of the term Minimum Viable Product: it’s not a product.

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Forj

AUGUST 17, 2021

In episode 7 of the Managing eLearning Podcast , Jon & Matt sit down with Celisa Steele Co-Founder & Managing Director for Tagoras to discuss the Learning Business Maturity Model , which articulates the characteristics of a mature market-facing learning business or line of business, as well as the stages that typically precede full maturity.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

From this group of respondents, we learned a few things. QUESTION: Do you also help clients evaluate database management systems to determine a best fit for a client? Definitions: What defines a “complete” record? Check our blog – you will find that we periodically report on the aggregated polling results.

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Forj

JUNE 15, 2021

Matt kicks off the episode with a definition of digital transformation: the process of using digital technologies to create new or modified existing business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet the changing businesses and market requirements. Want to learn more about digital transformation in the association space?

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eLearning Summary Podcast Management 36

sgEngage

AUGUST 3, 2021

2020 brought with it a call across CSR divisions to rethink the very definition of disaster prevention and relief, with COVID-19 and social justice receiving 83% of the more than $9 million in donations – a significant increase in total giving in this area — documented in this report. Where does giving go?

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2022

To provide some background, Invest in Kids is a Denver-based nonprofit dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of young children and families across the state through a wide spectrum of services including prenatal care, social-emotional learning, and in-home family therapy. Best Practice #1: Have A Peer-To-Peer Platform.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For example, you might learn about an animal shelter’s need for cat food and collect donations from employees over a set period of time. Survey your staff to learn which nonprofits they’d like to support and what workplace giving programs would make it easiest for them to contribute. Learn about the best workplace giving software!

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Community Giving Companies Gift 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

They were also able to leverage an evaluation and learning community to develop common definitions for policy. Colby, Vice President, Research and Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Can you have your cake and eat it too? Have any of you used this approach? When does it work? When doesn’t it?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The Vera Institute (2015) offers this definition of social impact bonds: “In a social impact bond, private investors fund an intervention through an intermediary organization—and the government repays the funder only if the program achieves certain goals, which are specified at the outset of the initiative and assessed by an independent evaluator.”.

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Program Management South Africa Evaluation 58

Bloomerang

APRIL 29, 2021

We should dust off those by-laws, pull out the board score card to self-evaluate our performance and bring in outside help to get our houses or in this case, our boards in order. . Visit the website at www.theboardpro.com to learn more about Touch Plans and Board Clinics. Being proactive and diligent is the best way to go!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. Hildy Gottlieb’s Pollyanna Principles are a great place to start if you want to learn more about how you can evaluate and identify your organizational goals (and larger view) in a way to successfully design projects, programs and even partnerships for real impact.

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Social Media Strategy Media Social 190

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By evaluating your existing volunteer program and renewing your focus on recruitment and retention, you can build a thriving and sustainable volunteer program that will propel your work forward. Evaluating Your Existing Volunteer Program. Before you attempt to create a program from scratch, evaluate what you have already in place.

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Volunteer Program Guide Training 102

Candid

MAY 4, 2023

It also seeks to provide a common baseline of the diversity of the field, as well as ensure that demographic data is available to those who can make use of it to evaluate their programs and assess progress around equity. vii The x-axis represents how important each factor or characteristic is in the machine learning model we used.

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