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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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. This refers to grants for projects that were ahead of their time or more experimental. Kathy Reich offered some context.

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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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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

They have to do all this while regularly drafting and submitting grant requests from funders who have different and changing priorities. Moreover, funders, evaluators, and program managers can have different goals related to programs’ implementations. How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? Market forces.

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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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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2023

While there will always be a baseline of information needed to make sure your grant funds are stewarded well, the best place to start is with trust. It includes multi-year grants so your grantees feel secure in their funding and can take on important projects that might require more than 12 months to launch.

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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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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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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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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. Many funders even set admin and fundraising caps in grant agreements. That is, they pay for administrative work with money designated as program-related in their budgets.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.”

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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. The place for prospecting and tracking donations, grants, memberships, and volunteering.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning technique that involves evaluating your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Fundraising You can also use a SWOT evaluation to analyze your organization’s fundraising streams. In this process, it can be particularly helpful to conduct a SWOT analysis.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Nonprofit Management.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Foundation and corporate giving are also projected to increase. to raise $1), business and/or foundation grants ($0.20 It’s a good time to evaluate where you may have gaps in your technology. ACTION: Commit to making your website the foundation of your marketing and online fundraising strategy. and +11.9%).

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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. The place for prospecting and tracking donations, grants, memberships, and volunteering.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately.

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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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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 your measurement approach a way to manage your grants and portfolio? Are you measuring to test a hypothesis?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

posted by Abby Elsener Assistant Director of Development, ASU Foundation. Heron Foundation, points out, versions of SIBs have existed for decades. Nonprofit managers ought to consider how a SIB might affect their evaluation, program management and fundraising efforts. As Clara Miller (2015), president of the H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I facilitated two programs for grantees of the Packard Foundation based on my book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit and designed and currently facilitating a peer learning exchange for the Knight Foundation for its community foundation partners that are hosting Giving Days. Year in Review.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2020

In this post, we’ll define the OKR concept and share how it could help your foundation deliver better performance and greater impact. In the OKR process, evaluation of objective success is often done on a continuum. Is the OKR process relevant for foundations? Increased grant dollars available in the Northeast by 15%.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, as we get started fundraising in 2021, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan that designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your goals in today’s context. It’s a time to focus on evaluating what fundraising approaches from 2020 worked and be honest about what didn’t pan out as planned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Note from Beth : In March, I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the GEO Conference (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) with Kathy Reich, Director, Organizational Effectiveness Program at the Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group, that helped OE analyze its “goldmine” of grantee data.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

It’s designed to consolidate and integrate data from various sources, including CRM systems, fundraising software, financial databases, program management tools, and more. Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals. What is a Nonprofit Data Warehouse?

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

months, followed by religious, grant-making, civic, and professional nonprofits at 13.4 Employers are increasingly noting “remote” work arrangements in job postings, which allows you to search nationally (or internationally if you speak a little French and want to do graphic design for a French nonprofit) for any job that interests you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Two reports have been released on the topic of capacity building: “ Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together ,” from GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center and “ Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity ” from GEOfunders. Engage grantees in the evaluation design and implementation.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your nonprofit’s mission is the foundation of everything you do. Two Signs Your Mission Statement Needs to Be Updated Experts recommend re-evaluating your mission statement every three years. They could be helpful in finding new ways to talk about your mission in your fundraising appeals, grant proposals, and more.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

Evaluating your shortfalls can be hard because often, when you’re smack dab in the middle of a nonprofit, you can’t be objective. Evaluate Your Donor Communications: Why Didn’t This Fundraising Method Work? Did you design your campaign around a specific need? Research new grant opportunities.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 24, 2021

However, it’s not worth it to rush the project, especially if you fail to set a strong foundation and have to rebuild your site from scratch a few years down the line. Why Work With A Development Agency to Complete Your Web Design Project. Creating a strong foundation now will prevent a major overhaul in the future.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition, the nonprofit evaluation services GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have teamed up on something called the "Overhead Myth letter." It is important for grantmakers because it provides them with data on the philanthropic return on their investments (grants). Event registrations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But it wasn’t until Active Voice brought on a full time evaluator that were we able to identify and actually measure the kind of shifts we think films can contribute to. This is now the core work of Active Voice, designing outcome-oriented strategies and implementing story-fueled, measurable campaigns. Who are we trying to reach?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. Likewise, our study last year of 263 nonprofits in Los Angeles County for the Weingart Foundation (see “ Fortifying L.A.’s What you think?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod. or “collective impact,” this work is characterized by a very different mindset, approach, and set of tools than traditional grant-making or nonprofit work, which has historically focused on supporting programs and organizations, and scaling those up. How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. Invest in programs and services that support the specific needs and priorities of BIPOC communities, and ensure that they are designed and delivered in partnership with those communities.

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