Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here’s the good news: with preparation and a pulse on the right data and information, it is possible to get a handle on the task and get a big picture of your organization’s needs. Below is a list of processes and procedures you can take to prepare yourself and your organization to start your website build or redesign on a solid footing.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Be clear about your intentions to alleviate concerns and foster a better understanding of how you’ll use the technology at your organization. To mitigate this, work as a group to evaluate AI outputs across different demographic groups and address disparities. AI technology can be complex and unfamiliar to many people.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. Grantee evaluation is a perennial hot topic in the foundation world, nonprofit evaluation is a lucrative industry in universities, and there is a whole high tech industry emerging to rate charities online led by Charity Navigator.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It turns out one of the most important strategies for our time is the ability to effectively generate, exchange, and adopt new ways of doing things. Strategies for effective and collaborative idea generation How can you ensure that your ideas not only get heard, but also gain traction within a brainstorming group? Well, almost.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations. Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Baseball and your Learning Organization. I could talk about learning techniques utilized in the past seven games and why players were less intimidated by pitches they encountered the second and third time around, or possibly what a combined 176 years of waiting can teach us in preparing for the future. The Importance of Reports.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From navigating donor data to finding the most effective ways to communicate, AI for fundraising can be applied to many aspects of your organization to help lift some of the burden of changing the world. For example, Qgiv provides AI to help your organization write peer-to-peer emails, as well as other donor communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Nonprofit action In the face of these troubling trends, nonprofit organizations are pivotal in the Press Forward funders views of what’s needed. Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Here’s an example where I calculated the mean, median, and standard deviation of the age of people who were served by a nonprofit organization.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Nonprofit organizations are no exception. The data utilized by the nonprofit sector can be used for an effective marketing strategy when handled properly. Watch the Market for Effective Marketing Strategies. Populate Pages with Effective Lead Capture Forms. Watch the Market for Effective Marketing Strategies.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Responding to challenges effectively and capitalizing on your strengths can set your nonprofit up for long-term success. A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning technique that involves evaluating your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

.” I’ll co-teaching the session with colleagues Andrea Berry, John Kenyon, and Cindy Leonard. The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Text marketing , also known as SMS marketing, can help your organization engage supporters, build relationships, and ultimately boost your fundraising results. Give your nonprofit more chances to interact with donors by asking every existing donor to opt in to receive texts from your organization. Keep an eye on your metrics.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. Analytics tools help an organization to know about their learners and how they are digesting the information. Mobile learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

It is less about the tools and more about the new mindsets you need to be successful. There are two excellent books that talk about this in the context of running an organization and addressing social issues – and I plan to review these in more depth next week. Both by authors with first names of Brian. This book will help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You I’m thrilled to be on a panel organized by Alexandra Samuel, Vision Critical , along with Jeremiah Owyang and Colby Flint. I’ll be doing a session designing and delivering effective training with John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard on March 14th at 10:30 am.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. What are the key functions of a sales operations group? Performance Metrics Analyses.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. 5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits. 5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits. Effective communication â?? and more precisely, the effective transfer or exchange of knowledge â??

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan. Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Organizations have also been encouraging their employees to work from home or enlisted travel bans. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. Follow an organized line up to ensure each person has a chance to respond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. . 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. My Three Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

The exact dollar amount that’s considered a major gift varies from organization to organization. For some organizations—especially those that are small or are just getting started—a major gift may be $1,000. Next, you should look at past giving patterns—both to your organization and to other nonprofits as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

One level is not better than another; it is just where the organization is at with respect to becoming a networked nonprofit and agile at using social media and other emerging technologies. Avoid spreading the organization’s resources too thin. Often, a “Return on Investment” argument surfaces.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

It helps you do better as an organization. According to the World Health Organization, over one billion people worldwide use assistive technology in their day-to-day lives. Failing to make your website adequately accessible could mean that people throughout the world are not able to interact with your organization. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

The network on Twitter responded: If you’re overly emotional and reject quantitative data or unemotional and reject lived experience, you are less effective from Seth Godin shared by WSUCCSR. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

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. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. Stakeholders may or may not identify themselves as participants in the system.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition, the nonprofit evaluation services GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have teamed up on something called the "Overhead Myth letter." " This letter calls for collecting more complete data on the effectiveness of charities beyond simply having low overhead. Event registrations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? We brainstormed a few: Real-Time evaluation of communications strategy for a nonprofit or foundation.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In that program, I learned many manners in which I could properly present myself in front of the customer, how to effectively summarize the purpose of my existence within a corporate entity, and most importantly a phone etiquette trick that has stayed with me until this very day. Problem Solving. Communication Strategies. Presentation Skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

I was most interested in Part 2 (pages 17-21) because I think the advice is applicable to organizations beyond those managing head start programs. Organizations that have this type of culture do not play the blame game if something needs to be improved.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Phonathons are a tried-and-true resource for all sorts of nonprofits and higher education institutions to engage donors and raise money effectively. Here at Double the Donation , we’ve compiled a number of tips and tricks to effectively communicate with your donors about matching gifts and raise more in phonathon revenue overall.

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