Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This was fairly early in the Foundation’s exploration of networks and Madeleine came in to discuss her approach to evaluating networks. Fast forward five years, Madeleine has published a new guide on evaluating networks. A Guide to Evaluating Networks – Guest Post By Madeleine Taylor.

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 4, 2021

ET (60 minutes) In response to our society’s deep and systemic inequities, BoardSource has evaluated the current state of nonprofit boards. The post A Discussion of The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership– Live Q&A appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Because the teams were not prepared at the year-end audit for these types of significant changes, there were often issues that required auditors to spend additional time in discussions with management or to document their understanding of the changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Last spring at the “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations ” meeting convened by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, practitioners from social media, measurement, evaluation, programs, communication, and philanthropy worked on a synthesis of these disciplines to address measurement. Technology!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. ” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Formative Evaluation.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 13, 2021

The peer-to-peer fundraising event experts at Event 360 and OP 3 have joined forces to look at how the non-profit event fundraising landscape has been affected by COVID-19 and evaluate how best we can help organizations recover and thrive in the wake of those changes. After surveying the industry, we’re ready to present our findings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

A nonprofit technology assessment is an evaluation of the digital maturity of your organization. We communicate our recommended strategy for improving your nonprofit’s tech stack and discuss the best path forward with your team. The post Nonprofit Technology Assessment: Evaluate Your Tech appeared first on DNL OmniMedia, Inc.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

The leadership team began by discussing the issues. Evaluate Alignment “Maintaining a consistent relationship between mission, vision, and customers is critical for a successful company,” Randy advised. “We Making that evaluation requires collaboration. Our results were not where we wanted them to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Notes from Discussion. I entered the community as a foundation evaluator wanting to find the best strategies and tools for documenting and learning about networks but also for measuring those difficult-to-pin-down outcomes and impact. Evaluation can also help foundations get the feedback they need to modulate their role and influence.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 2, 2012

To truly understand the power of a predictive program evaluation solution, let's first discuss three common misconceptions that many nonprofit organizations have. Any type of program evaluation tends to be reactive: something went right, so we keep on doing it, or something went wrong, so we try to fix it. Market Manager.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

It can also help you evaluate your group’s current strengths and weaknesses. For example, a job interview, performance evaluation, or strategy decision. Discussions involving feelings can be challenging. A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. Start slowly.

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.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2024

Meet with people individually to discuss where you believe their skills best serve the team and as a group to explain how those dynamics work together. Keep the conversation meaningful with an honest discussion about strengths, weaknesses, and progress that avoids judgment.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

It opens services and activities to ongoing evaluation and adjustment. It’s a nice challenge to figure out how to discuss change in a way that includes the goals of the person you are trying to influence. This concept can be applied to everything from creating a website to developing a practice marketing manual for members.

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Candid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The data set is a goldmine for researchers and evaluators interested in better understanding the demographics of the nonprofit sector. It also offers suggestions on when researchers and evaluators may want to choose one method to access the data over the other. And perhaps even more exciting, it’s also free to access.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

At the plenary panel discussion, a woman from the audience, an arts teacher, asked, plaintively, “Why do we have to justify the arts in school? Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. Evaluation can be painful. Art is also very subjective. So, what is the value of art?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. In-person discussions should occur both formally and informally before and after new members are welcomed to the board. The MBTI provides an opportunity for people to discuss communications and behavior preferences. A calendar of events.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

My many years of experience collecting and analyzing data as an evaluator naturally lead me to ask: What has been the measurable impact of this important shift? At the 2022 Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) conference, a few fellow evaluators and I discussed the findings of the AAPIP report Seeking to Soar.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 27, 2023

Creating a central place for conversations is a great way to encourage discussion about your meeting agenda and keep the conversation flowing after the latest board meeting. Streamline the process for your board members by setting an expiration date so the evaluation or compliance document must be completed yearly. Boost collaboration.

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2013

This is a topic that Amy Sample Ward and I also discuss in our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere in the chapter on Disrupting the Nonprofit Sector. When I’m evaluating a charity for a client who is looking to make a significant donation to a nonprofit, I measure 4 key things: 1.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 19, 2023

Let’s delve into how each of these improvements comes to life: Enhancing Internal Collaboration and Workflow One of the key benefits of project retrospectives is the opportunity to evaluate internal collaboration and workflow. Retrospectives provide a platform to evaluate the effectiveness of role clarity and allocation.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

Implementing retreats, cross-functional committees, and generative discussions that involve both board and staff members can help ensure cohesion and shared direction. Evaluation of partnership: Regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the board-staff relationship.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

You can only strengthen your work together when you’re open to discussing it and how you need to improve. So, bring courage, directness, honesty, and compassion to the table when discussing the places where you want to get better. Principle 6: Conduct a retreat evaluation and share this feedback with the design team. .

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress. Groups discussed the same question simultaneously. The panel discussed how those groups supported their members through unprecedented challenges, gained public trust, and came back wiser and stronger. Working on culture isn’t a finite activity.

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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. What am I looking for with this question?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

Evaluate post-campaign data. Meet with everyone on your staff involved with the fundraising campaign to review your campaign goals, discuss the campaign results, and talk through lessons learned. Once you’ve evaluated your campaign, start thinking strategically about your next campaign. Access your data.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2011

Next, engage them in a discussion of whether the planned activities are sufficient to produce these desired results. an effective results-oriented program evaluation system? As you implement the evaluation, discuss the findings with them and together create meaning from the data. Register for NMI 108 with B. Click here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Meeting norms should be co-created and discussed with your team because for them to work everyone has to own them. A thirty minute facilitated process can be used to discuss and create a draft for your meeting norms. 7-Ways To Evaluate and Continuously Improve Virtual Meetings. My best tips and tools are in this post.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the concept of community leadership in foundations and discuss how they can support their grantees beyond the dollar. Evaluation and Learning: Foundations can provide grantees with robust evaluation frameworks and support them in measuring their impact effectively.

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Kindful

JULY 8, 2021

Whether it’s a gala, golf tournament, marathon, trivia night, or online wine tasting, the number one thing that gets overlooked in evaluating event costs is the human capital required to produce the event. To get better at understanding the trust cost of an event, you need to evaluate the event’s return on investment (ROI). .

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

While this list is great for starting the discussion, for a more detailed audit and analysis, enlist the support of Media Cause MarTech experts. Do we have an online platform to collect donations? Are we doing anything to follow up with those donors? Where do we go to learn about our website’s performance?

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

This curated track features members of Blackbaud’s K–12 Executive Advisory Board and our internal experts discussing how technology in schools has evolved, new best practices, and fresh ideas. But how do you unlock this power without knowing how to write code? Where do you start?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

You’ll also be well-prepared to have in-depth discussions with prospective vendors and can make better decisions about which of them will be the right one to help you execute your organization’s web redesign project. Well-defined technical and design scope and constraints. Step 1: Conduct a Content Inventory and Site Audit.

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2023

Let’s briefly discuss what resources are needed to pursue grant funding and if your organization is in a position to do so. Do you have the evaluation expertise required to evaluate grant activities? Keep in mind, sometimes funds for the evaluation component will be included in your requested grant budget.

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Charity Village

AUGUST 27, 2021

Imagine Canada‘s new, free Organizational Resilience Self-Assessment tool makes it easy for charities and nonprofits of all sizes to evaluate resilience and organizational competencies related to risk, governance, accountability, and trust.

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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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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As leaders, sometimes we need to pump the breaks and evaluate things from a different perspective. Your committee can evaluate solutions and the benefits and challenges of new software while helping educate your school’s stakeholders on how complicated and sophisticated data management can be.

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