sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. The sector itself continued to change, but it was a challenge to effectively adapt questions to match those changes. What do your questions or materials say about you, your foundation, or your family? We needed to change up our questions.

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Question Application Reflection Philanthropy 85

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 29, 2023

To help nonprofits tackle this quandary, we teamed up with two other business professors , Arian Aflaki and Goker Aydin , to develop a mathematical model to guide nonprofits on how to divvy up their spending to optimize both current performance and future resilience through their spending priorities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. The last evaluation of this work was a decade ago. Kathy Reich offered some context.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Even the most compelling speakers and writers can use help understanding how to interact effectively with a variety of personalities. The word critical comes from the Greek word kritikos, which means the ability to judge or discern. Don’t waste valuable brain power.

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Skills Collaboration Communication Classroom 221

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically. The SQ evaluates a leader’s current mindset and behaviors using the “3A Framework” – acumen, allocation, action. There’s no better time than now to read this book.

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Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

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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Evaluation Learning Foundation Reflection 86

BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

In this second part of the series, Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, shares more terrific advice and insights on financial health and nonprofit business models. Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Two: Smart Nonprofit Business Models. What is a smart nonprofit business model? Thanks Alice!

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

Access comprehensive insights : AI models can analyze vast amounts of data far faster than any human. By analyzing donor data, AI models can help you learn more about your donors, prioritize outreach, and identify new major donors. AI shines here with its wealth screening and predictive modeling capabilities.

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Gift Game Philanthropy Fundraising 84

sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

We also believe it is critical to prioritize a trustworthy approach to AI, grounded in: Fairness, inclusiveness, reliability, and trust: The foundational principles of Blackbaud’s responsible AI framework. But what if your budget doesn’t match the magnitude of the risks?

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Blackbaud API Empowerment Nevada 86

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. Philanthropy loves “new” things. Fast forward to today….

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 70

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Jara Dean-Coffey discussed impact, with a focus on how organizations should be evaluative , rather than simply doing evaluation.

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Model Impact Business Case Study 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” Guest Post by the Packard Foundation OE Team.

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Effective Program Work Review 96

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

It provides critical data for nonprofit leaders, board members and funders to understand the effectiveness of organizations in serving their missions. Kellogg Foundation , PM is no longer about proving something works, but about generating information to better understand how and why programs work. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Measure Create Arizona Participatory 52

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Grant funding can be a great way for a nonprofit to boost its revenue, with giving by corporations and foundations in the United States in 2013 amounting to $67 billion. Poorly developed evaluation plans. Identify the relationships between a program’s inputs, outputs, and outcomes through the development of a logic model.

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Grant Effective Tips Proposal 40

sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

From community involvement in your grantmaking decisions to better ways to think about risk, the current trends in grantmaking can help you make more effective decisions and more clearly tell your impact story. For example, bringing your community leaders closer to the decision-making process creates more effective grant programs.

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Trend Participatory Philanthropy Grant 73

Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

With that, here are three starting points for activating DEI in your organization: Provide the tools Normalize feedback Evaluate and Reevaluate 1. The foundation of this skill set is the ability to give and receive feedback. Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI.

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Activities Active Activism Organization 97

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nonprofits whose organizational cultures encourage outreach and relationship building are already laying the foundational groundwork of high-performing collaboration. They are setting the stage for transparent communication when evaluating compatibility and complementary “value exchange between partners” are in effect.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

The Trust Based Philanthropy Project is a five-year funder initiative that addresses inherent power imbalances between foundations and nonprofits. When funders model vulnerability and power-consciousness , it signals to grantees that they can show up more fully. Solicit and Act on Feedback: Philanthropy doesn’t have all the answers.

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Philanthropy Literacy Gift Grant 74

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

2020 has challenged grants managers at foundations in ways that no one could have anticipated. Overnight shifts to remote work and remote learning models. Any one of these factors might have created a shift in the operating model for many foundations. We know how hard it is for human beings to self-evaluate.

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Grant System Management Evaluation 32

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Nonprofits collect and generate vast amounts of data, ranging from individual donors’ contact information to program outcomes, but they often struggle with organizing and utilizing the information effectively. Conduct effective strategic planning. This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits.

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Data Guide Proposal Nonprofit 52

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Demographics: Foundations and corporate funders will want to know who is benefiting from your nonprofit’s services. Timely submissions and consistent, personalized stewardship signal to internal and external constituents that your nonprofit is ready to effectively participate in the fundraising arena. Do you serve K-12 students?

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Professional Leadership Develop Proposal 70

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

What type of impact is the program making, and is it one that can be most effectively increased by scaling up this individual program? Scalable programs should be based on a strong theory of change or logic model, clearly linking program inputs to outcomes in a way that can be tested and evaluated to determine actual effectiveness.

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Program Impact New York Model 64

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately. As part of a.

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Research Culture Evaluation Arizona 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. . Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible.

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Public Learning Wiki Taxonomy 103

Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. Previously served as CEO of The Seany Foundation, a pediatric cancer foundation. Lewis Foundation. Anna Rathmann.

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Award Leadership Cleveland Hunger 57

sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Experiment with Journey Mapping A colorful visualization of the constituent experience, journey mapping is a model that helps you track how and when you engage with supporters and when and why they make the giving choices they do. It’s a common practice for commercial enterprises. We now offer encouragement to fundraise to meet certain goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Is the evaluation of your program something management needs to assess the performance of your organization as a whole? Is your measurement approach a way to manage your grants and portfolio?

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Evaluation Measure Seattle Lesson 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

At the “Learning in Public” breakout session, Beth Kanter, Jared Raynor (TCC Group) and Kathy Reich (David and Lucile Packard Foundation) sharing the Packard Foundation’s experience with learning in public. What are foundations willing to STOP doing in order to make time for learning?

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Culture Public Learning Reflection 91

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

and the Rockefeller Foundation, titled: " A New Tool for Scaling Impact: How Social Impact Bonds Can Mobilize Private Capital to Advance Social Good." However, there are questions surrounding the inherent stability of these new business models, given the complexity of financial and other federal and state regulatory requirements.

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Impact Research Tools Social 80

Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Brian Solis, and psychologists and neurobiologists, uses the term somatic marker to help define this experience and its effects. Whatever you did, evaluation is in order to assess what worked, what didn’t and why. You may have focused more on individual major giving since foundations and businesses were cutting back. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

ImpactRising.org helps to make standards of practice explicit, so that social sector organizations like nonprofits, NGOs and foundations don’t have to reinvent the wheel. The project is funded by the Packard Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. A model of generosity. I think he’d be proud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Here’s his response: The reality is funders are not supporting good measurement—at least not measurement done by the nonprofits to manage their effectiveness and to outcomes. If you’ve not seen The Center for Effective Philanthropy survey of September, 2012, it sets up the challenge pretty clearly. That says volumes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

I’m just beginning a new crop of peer learning projects for nonprofits to learn the practice of being networked nonprofits and use social media effectively at Zoetica and through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. Three Different Designs for Public Learning On Wiki.

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Wiki Public Learning Wikispaces 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. Likewise, our study last year of 263 nonprofits in Los Angeles County for the Weingart Foundation (see “ Fortifying L.A.’s What you think?

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Teach Help Los Angeles Wiki 108

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

And now, you’re using a hybrid fundraising model to address both in-person and online engagement— and you likely have new software to address that change as well. Before you partner with a nonprofit tech consultant, complete the following steps to ensure your team is well-prepared for the evaluation. About DNL Omnimedia, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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