sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. Is this question relevant?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This is a design aspect called “ Transformative Capacity Building ,” where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better results. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned. In other words, how to scale reflective practice in age of connectedness?

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Candid

MAY 13, 2024

In a 2022 survey, nearly 70% of respondents cited building measurement, evaluation, and learning capabilities as a critical area in which they would like to invest. As such, effective approaches to measurement and learning reflect a multiplicity of stakeholders. Here we’ll focus on equitably measuring across a portfolio of grantees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Design a program that reflects the customized service you want to deliver and the quality of outreach you want to produce. Use data to make objective decisions based on site traffic, evaluations, sales, professional development activity, focus groups and/or other types of outreach. They will be representing your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

At the end of a recent strategic planning retreat, each participant shared brief reflections on the day. In this post, I’ll share how we design these retreats so you can run effective ones of your own. With that in mind, here are the seven principles that we use to design and lead impactful strategic planning or board retreats.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. The categories that are represented should reflect qualities that directors bring to the board as well as characteristics that will enhance the organization’s growth and development. Except for officers, most don’t receive financial compensation.

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.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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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humble Beginnings From their humble beginnings back at Joliet Junior College in Joliet, Illinois, two-year institutions were designed with a different end in mind. Building Pathways to Completion Institutions must reflect, assess, and address the barriers that prevent timely completion, like failing to connect degrees to career placement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. The room setup fought with our design, but we managed to make it work.

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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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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 5, 2024

The full ruling is available here: [link] “The majority ruled that an 1866 law designed to provide economic freedom to newly-freed slaves actually prohibits the Fearless Foundation from providing grants to Black women. We are evaluating all of our options.” We disagree,” attorney for the Fearless Foundation Jason C.

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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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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

When the group reimagined their office space, incorporating elements of culture into the new design was a priority. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress. The World Café is a strategy designed to deeply explore a series of topical questions. Working on culture isn’t a finite activity.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To successfully implement changes to your grantmaking application, you need to communicate the benefits of data-driven and user-centered design to your leadership, tie the benefits to your organization’s overall goals, and involve your leadership in the decision-making process. Do you analyze it, report it, or share it with your stakeholders?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Consider using scoring rubrics or structured interview protocols to standardize evaluations and minimize bias to keep things equitable. Make the effort to make sure your board reflects a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Set up interview processes that are as transparent as they are engaging. Welcome them aboard.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Pacific time for Short Evaluations of Real Websites. During the hour, web design experts Susanne Hempel and Steve Williams will take a look at a succession of real nonprofit and library websites. Some questions the experts will be asking are: Does the website accurately reflect the mission of the organization? Register today!

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

Over the past five years of researching and writing about AI adoption for the nonprofit sector, we have argued for nonprofits to use AI ethically and responsibly—which means taking a human-centered, strategic, and reflective approach. Chatbots developed by nonprofits for programs and services have faced challenges at times as well.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Lauren Sly Vice president of programs, Communities in Schools – Greater Tarrant County Learn more "Having flexibility with our Impact Management solution to adjust how we're collecting data to continually reflect programming on the ground has been key, because when the data reflects the work, the providers are more interested in their data."

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. As your nonprofit team begins that conversation, be sure to write down the answers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They are setting the stage for transparent communication when evaluating compatibility and complementary “value exchange between partners” are in effect. Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection. Engage in rigorous self-reflection to gauge readiness across multiple dimensions. Recommendations.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

THE RESEARCH The challenge, of course, was to figure out how to evaluate the experience in a way that would help us identify the power of the project. I think most of us are familiar with interview and survey-based evaluation methods. This was used to evaluate the amount of emotional energy dedicated to the jar activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

As a member of the NTEN Board, I used this framework to help us work through our performance evaluation process. The PI was explicitly designed for nonprofits with budgets over $3 million because those organizations serve the vast majority of people receiving nonprofit services in the US. Should we include all seven pillars?

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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. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Why Use One? Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 13, 2024

In other words, if the testator designated your organization as a beneficiary of her estate, you may have the advantage because the challenger will need to demonstrate why the bequest is legally deficient and the terms of the Will should not be enforced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Being able to make decisions and evaluate are more appropriate for a learning experience delivered over time such as a semester long course or at least having some time and space in between sessions. evaluate the results of your social media experiment and use the information to improve your next social media strategy experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Instructional Design. Peer Learning Design. Design Labs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. I started with an introduction to the Networked Nonprofit and an assessment that allows them evaluate where their use of networks and social media is along a continuum.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating the webinar, A Cooperative Approach to Web Design. Are You Designing Your Website with Everyone in Mind? Very rarely are you designing a website for everybody in mind, and if that was your answer, you may need to clarify the purpose of your website (or even your organization).

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Learning, we do naturally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Here’s what I learned. Spectragram.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Assessing the technology skills of individual staff Once you have an idea of the skills required for each role in your organization, you will want to evaluate the current skills of each individual and identify needs for learning or supplementing with outside experts. Reinforce learning after one day, week, and month to make it stick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises. More importantly, after every class I facilitate, I do a debrief with students as part of evaluating the training. Nothing like first-person accounts.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 18, 2021

Day, designated as a National Day of Service, I was interviewed by Meghan McCarty Carino for National Public Radio about how organizations have adjusted their MLK Day of Service plans given the pandemic. How can we evolve the vision of service days towards days of reflection or learning ?

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 29, 2023

That is, they pay for administrative work with money designated as program-related in their budgets. What isn’t known In the future, we plan to collaborate with charity watchdogs to gain their insights on how our evaluation recommendations could be applied to reflect each organization’s specific capabilities and goals.

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