Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

They made Foundation Directory more accessible by removing the paywall for small nonprofits when they earn a Gold Seal of Transparency. Grounded in a participatory approach, the tool will be designed by WFN members and built by WFN’s data and insights team. They built a public API and released a public data set.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2017

Go from zero to 60 — or at least gather enough speed to get on the highway entrance — with our Design for Nondesigner course series. Get your design driver's license by taking a few of TechSoup's online design courses. identify and apply standard processes for creating visually appealing and effective design.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If you make kindness official by designating it as an organizational value, you can weave the threads of consideration throughout your team. Kindness is a foundation for equity and inclusion. Survey the office and evaluate the comfort quotient. It’s a natural fit and powerful reinforcement to DEI programs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Never underestimate the value of services that are designed to ensure you’re set for success from the moment you purchase your software and beyond. Check out the following breakdown of offerings you may want to consider when evaluating fundraising solutions. Do your due diligence by reading third party software evaluations.

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Software Fundraising Training Train 295

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. Grantee evaluation is a perennial hot topic in the foundation world, nonprofit evaluation is a lucrative industry in universities, and there is a whole high tech industry emerging to rate charities online led by Charity Navigator.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A website build or redesign has technical but also design and execution aspects. Well-defined technical and design scope and constraints. Next would be technical and design requirements. Design and creative requirements. You’ve been put in charge of leading the revamp of your organization’s website. Target audiences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Others receive grant funding from governmental agencies, private foundations, and community funds. Donors, grantors, and foundations look to these watchdogs to help them make informed choices about their donations and ensure they’re supporting an organization that is fiscally responsible. Many receive a combination of both.

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sgEngage

JULY 12, 2022

Many foundations have turned to outside consultants with expertise in this area to help guide them through the beginning of their DEI journey. Power sharing enables historically marginalized individuals to create solutions and design the path forward. 2. Internal Processes: Grantmakers Must Look Inward.

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Application Grant Evaluation Practice 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.".

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Evaluation Learning Foundation Reflection 86

Bonterra

APRIL 11, 2024

Learn more Efficiently track impact Invest in a turnkey, high-impact capacity building program and gain access to regular reporting, allowing you to evaluate nonprofit growth and the return on your investment. It is a really tangible action by the foundation as a true partner to say we believe in this, and we want to be part of the solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2013

This is from a blog post by Luis Chabolla at the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz. The Packard Foundation is hosting a Google Hangout and will be live from our headquarters. I had the change to work with his organizations and many other Packard grantees during my four years as Visiting Scholar.

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Hosting Google Foundation Lesson 94

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Nonprofits, corporate foundations, social enterprises, and organizations working in the social sector can struggle with how to approach understanding their impact: How do they know that changes in their beneficiary group are due to their interventions? How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? Market forces. Field (i.e.,

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Impact Management Organization Evaluation 120

sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2022

Years ago, I worked on a project where I was hired to interview about 75 different foundations in one state. These included all types of foundations, large to small, family-run, disease-related, corporate-operated. Do you know the one thing that nearly every foundation representative shared? Collaboration in a Crisis.

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Collaboration Foundation Test Skills 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. The last evaluation of this work was a decade ago. Kathy Reich offered some context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Why Use One?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

It is tempting to allow board members to skip fundraising, but this useful list is designed to give board members a wide range of tasks they can choose from to support the financial growth of your organization, and only a few involve directly asking for money. Donate your skills (graphic design, strategic planning, human resources).

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Algorithms can be designed to be objective and unbiased, reducing the risk of human error and judgment in decision-making. Tiffany Kerns is the Executive Director of the Country Music Association Foundation and CMA’s Vice President of Industry Relations and Philanthropy. Caveat here—that depends on the human’s perspective.

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Data Studies Music Analysis 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2013

This tweet was sent a Packard Foundation board meeting four years ago. The Packard Foundation is hosting a Google Hangout and will be live from our headquarters. By today’s standards, it isn’t earth shattering.

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Hosting Google Foundation Celebrate 94

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 22, 2021

Purdue University evaluated five vendors before the COVID-19 pandemic, and ultimately chose Salesforce because of platform scalability, flexibility, and its strong partnership with UC Innovation. Purdue For Life Foundation was designed last year to deepen ties to Purdue alumni. There is a full landscape of offerings.”.

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University ROI Michigan Education 101

Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2017

Data champions —whether inside a nonprofit organization or a foundation—know that data on its own doesn’t accelerate impact on its own. This helps provide a platform for foundations and nonprofits to partner more closely on achieving intended outcomes together.

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Foundation Data Measure Dallas 37

Candid

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Issue Lab is where Candid collects, preserves, and shares research reports, whitepapers, evaluations, case studies, issue briefs, and more, published and/or funded by social sector organizations. The content in Issue Lab is designed to help social sector professionals with common, daily tasks.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Presentation Ready is divided into three sections: Building your case – the foundation of your persuasive arguments and content. The book’s material will help you quickly evaluate challenges in your presentations and make simple corrections that can expand your influence and generate better outcomes.”

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PowerPoint Blended New York Industry 81

sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Still, many foundations shy away from working together, assuming it will require considerable time and a loss of independence. . Benefits of Funder Collaboration .

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Collaboration Foundation Local Philanthropy 95

.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Accountants Content moderators Legal Assistants Proofreaders Entry-level stock traders Transcribers Graphic designers, where creativity isn’t a priority Customer service representatives Soldiers Writers, where quantity is a greater concern than quality I reviewed several of these lists. The nominees varied depending on the publication.

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Skills Collaboration Communication Classroom 221

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

How about a Code of Ethics for your organization and team, designed with the needs of your community at its heart? Such a pledge can be your foundation for trust. Tipsheet Nonprofit CRM Evaluation Guide Download for Free The post Strategies to Build Donor Trust and Retention first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Retention Donor Build Strategy 86

Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We are designers and researchers, communications professionals and developers. Through an internal compensation review, as well an external one to benchmark against market rates, we are actively evaluating our current salary structures to ensure that they are equitable across the organization. DEIA is also about what we do.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

With that, here are three starting points for activating DEI in your organization: Provide the tools Normalize feedback Evaluate and Reevaluate 1. The foundation of this skill set is the ability to give and receive feedback. Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI.

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Activities Active Activism Organization 97

Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Lewis Foundation.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This investment lays a solid foundation for long-term resilience and ensures they are better equipped to serve their beneficiaries. That is, they pay for administrative work with money designated as program-related in their budgets. As nonprofits grow and establish some level of capacity, the emphasis should then shift to fundraising.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. Learning can be formal or informal, designed or serendipitous, individual or collective. Philanthropy loves “new” things. But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 70

Kindful

MARCH 22, 2021

After all, when you build relationships with your supporters , you’re laying the foundation to turn them into long-term advocates and donors. Evaluate your current strategy for collecting email subscribers. Evaluate your current strategy for collecting email subscribers. That’s where email newsletters come into play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2014

Spitfire developed this upgraded version of its first campaign planning tool because of the many new factors affecting what it takes to design and run winning campaigns in today’s rapidly changing world. Evaluate the Campaign Climate. Planning to Win framework organizes the process of campaign planning into six stages.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Presenter(s): Amanda Halacy, Senior Strategist, Forum One; Julia Bradshaw , User Experience Design Lead , Forum One. In this session, we’ll discuss what inclusive research looks like and give you concrete tips for how you can ethically structure your research to ensure you’re designing impactful solutions for your audiences.

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Colorado Digital Audience Denver 46

Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

The Salesforce.com Foundation offers 10 user licenses for free to nonprofits, which can make it an attractive option for organizations with limited budgets that are interested in adopting a software to streamline their fundraising. That’s why we’re designing our software with organizations that do good at a grassroots level in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. It is critical you know the why before you start designing, doing, and paying for the what. Is the evaluation of your program something management needs to assess the performance of your organization as a whole?

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Evaluation Measure Seattle Lesson 95

Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

A case management tool is a software application designed to streamline and automate the process of managing caseloads, clients, and resources within public sector and nonprofit organizations. Request a demo

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Tools Management Los Angeles Demonstration 52

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Quote from Kristina Halvorson) It’s an essential step in the Web Design process that’s often overlooked or skimped upon. The foundation for a good content strategy is a current content inventory. Methodology. Deliverables. What’s Next.

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