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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. ENA Culture Statements Staff The Emergency Nurses Association will seek at all times to foster and maintain a culture of excellence, commitment, empowerment, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who decides what is measured? Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? Consider using your executive director. By following these steps, your organization can replace poor capacity with self-sufficiency, self-determination, and empowerment. Identify champions and people to work with. Invest in your evaluation capacity.

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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible, harmful way to measure nonprofit effectiveness. Nonprofits Struggle to Implement Diversity Measures, Survey Finds. Why more and more executive directors of color are leaving their positions, and what we need to do about it. Tools: Reflective structured dialogue.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. We’re making our focus on community more overt, tangible, and measurable.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director. It's one of the hardest things to measure, and it's probably one of the hardest things to do.

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

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Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets. I became the Executive Director and co-founder of an organization there called Free At Last , which serves people that have substance abuse issues.

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