Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Optimize the interview process Once you’ve identified qualified candidates, it’s time to initiate a clear and efficient interview process that decreases the time to fill the position and ensures timely communication. Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

About half of the 100+ consultants I’ve interviewed this year alone say they will skip an RFP if it doesn’t share an available budget—including one helps you make sure you’re capturing the attention of all the potential knowledge and partnership that’s out there! I’m putting this one near the top because I see it overlooked too often.

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Classy

MAY 18, 2021

We re-evaluated the tools we were using in order to get coverage in new locations. Zoom for remote interviewing. Calendly to schedule interviews more efficiently. It was important to meet with hiring managers on how to interview, hire, onboard, and manage in a remote environment. Optimized Our Tech Stack.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. Evaluation matrix . You’ll also want to create an evaluation matrix—sort of a scorecard—so you can compare your candidates with more objectivity.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Moreover, this work has been underfunded and its analysis happens often away from C-suite or Board discussions. It’s true that rigorous evaluation is critical, but right-sizing your evaluation is equally important. In other words, one size doesn’t fit all. Integrated Financial Management.

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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. Anna Greco did research in three ways: through in-person interviews with participants, surveys with participants, and observational analysis of the jars themselves.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Tackling Social Justice Issues on Diversity and Inclusion : Interview with Michael Moore, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at Blackbaud. These metrics, that include D&I data, help investors evaluate companies based upon criteria broader than just mere numbers. These will be critical metrics for us to gauge our performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion. What might a growth mindset intervention for a nonprofit look like when going through a program evaluation process?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 18, 2021

A feasibility study when a third party gathers feedback to evaluate the viability of the fundraising goal and then recommends a path forward. But waiting until a feasibility interview to engage with prospective donors may be missing a critical opportunity to build donor engagement.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When chosen properly, impact metrics can accurately evaluate everything from individual program effectiveness to an organization’s overall performance. With this in mind, let’s begin by discussing the value of thoughtful nonprofit impact metrics. . Evaluate and improve the effectiveness of programs and services. Is it relevant?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. For each of the topics we cover in the class, students are assigned reading and I do a brief presentation of examples, frameworks and open it up for discussion. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

Make use of interviews, assessments, and questionnaires to collect data for this metric. Assemble and track collected data from surveys, assessments, and interviews all in one place to efficiently manage your foundational impact statistics and more. This is a qualitative rather than quantitative measurement for your nonprofit impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. There are different approaches to evaluating a program. As part of a.

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Forum One

JULY 27, 2021

Use surveys or conduct interviews with your donors, or ideal prospects, on a continuous basis to gain insight on what your donors want and where your organization can improve. Digital tools and systems often touch different teams and departments and can require investments that need to be discussed at a higher level.

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Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2021

When evaluating technology’s role, agencies need to invest the necessary resources and funding to accelerate reach and improve the customer experience. This is especially important when discussing cross-governmental collaboration. To listen to the full interview, check out the episode here. . Invest in long-term change.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2020

You’ll also hear a bonus segment with Aubrey, added after the main interview was originally recorded, in which she discusses how organizations can most effectively operate right now during the COVID-19 crisis. Topics Discussed in This Episode: How the San Francisco Conservatory of Music is responding in the face of COVID-19.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Charity Digital News published this interview with Rob Leyland, Innovation Manager, about their recent efforts. NPR interviewed ethics expert Mason Marks, a medical doctor and research fellow at Yale and NYU law schools, and recently wrote about Facebook’s system, to discuss the ethical and privacy concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. This was followed by group discussion and Q/A. Next, try provocative statements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. What Should You Consider When Evaluating eLearning Consultants?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Other areas include: communications, executive transition, evaluation/learning, networking/convening, and professional development. They also facilitated discussion with others funders that invest in capacity building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. A conversational case study is a write up our interviews identifying a few questions we still have.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you’re considering creating a TikTok account for your nonprofit, it’s important for you to evaluate if you’ll be able to reach your target audience on the platform. United Way has repurposed images of their volunteers and video interviews of their staff to create several TikToks that raise awareness of their work.

Marketing 117

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

They should be visionaries who chart the direction, evaluate options, and are prepared to challenge ideas they feel are not in the association’s best interests. A bigger portfolio of ideas is needed to evaluate the complex challenges in a post-pandemic world characterized by volatility and change. Diversity isn’t easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). Interviews with 9 other foundations that conduct OE grantmaking (April-May 2012). Interviews with approximately 30 grantees (April-June 2012).

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In your application or interview, ask the candidate why they want to get involved to determine if they truly care about your mission. Go over these items in your check-ins: Review progress: Discuss ongoing ambassador initiatives and progress. Passion and free time: Most importantly, find people who are passionate about your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? Or just keep your ears open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. This is why the session started with a discussion defining confidentiality. It may deepen and enrich the discussion.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Welcome: AI 2-Minute Rule As a starting point, assume what takes you 2 hours can take AI 2 minutes , consider this when evaluating tasks. Writing emails to staff, contacts, board members Prompt: Draft an email to {staff member/contact/board member’s name} discussing {specific topic}.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2019

Find the Right Fit – With your job description in hand, take the time to interview potential volunteers to understand their skills and working style. Repeatedly check on the status of the project against the plan and expectations you’ve previously discussed, and also make sure you offer yourself up as a resource and support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

The next phase was crowd-sourced rating process - where anyone could be a curator evaluating the aesthetic quality and relevance to the exhibition theme. You can click through and see how the 389 images were evaluated by 3,344 evaluators who submitted 410,089 evaluations. View the Evaluation Statistics.)It

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2014

On this stage, you''ll hear interviews, Q&As, case studies, and even full product demos. Big Idea Sessions With the hope of providing an opportunity to discuss large topics, explore research, and otherwise step back for big converstaions within the agenda, we''ve added Big Idea Sessions this year.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Podcast,orgSource Senior Consultant, Kevin Martlage , interviewed PCI staffers, Beth Taylor and Randy Wilson about that experience. 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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Note from Beth: I first learned about this project last year, when Shiree Teng, the project leader, interviewed me as part of some research on capacity building consultants that lead to the design of ImpactRising. Contact her at christi.tran@gmail.com. Networks Organizational Culture Philanthropy'

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Cloud for Good recently sat down with BWF’s Jason Boley, Senior Vice President of Systems and Operations, to discuss the value and best processes of the RFP process. An RFP is only part of the process; organizations will have additional opportunities to engage vendors during demonstrations and follow-up discussions. .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

According to Berger, the social sector has not been able or willing to discuss this problem bluntly and openly. Berger says nonprofits have many reasons for not discussing their "results" problem openly, including: An unwillingness to "get naked and completely transparent about results" (as he put it, colorfully).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2014

These are the questions discussed during the Health Datapalooza conference in Washington, D.C. A variety of new approaches to informed consent are being evaluated and this area is ripe for guidance to assure optimal outcomes for all stakeholders. Are there other benefits? What are the challenges? last month.

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