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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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We all want to know whether our work makes a difference. Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. But, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) frameworks and approaches may not be as objective as they seem.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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I am still evaluating the lessons learned. It’s the difference between a simple handshake and a deeply realized commitment. Evaluate your current community and identify where expanded representation might be beneficial. With this kind of structure, there are limited sources of revenue. The pandemic was a wormhole.

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What Are You Really Asking? A Checklist for Grantmakers

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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. If you want numbers, ask for numbers.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play – guest post by Meghan Ventura. This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. You can register here.

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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

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Together, the data from analytics and user feedback can help inform improvements, structure, and enhancements to your redesigned website. Do you have a web team with staff in multiple roles and with different skill sets? Here’s an example of how to structure your scoping document outline: About the Organization.

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How To Fix The 12 Most Common Presentation Mistakes

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Leveraging creativity – How your persuasive message resonates with listeners (storytelling, visual aids, structure, curiosity) Honing your delivery – Your unique style, movement, personality, and ability to execute effectively. The answers will be different depending on if you’re coming from the perspective of the Presenter or the Listener.