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Voices of experience: The role of people with lived experience across the charitable sector

Charity Village

I’ve observed many common themes and best practices from both fields, particularly when it comes to designing, carrying out and evaluating programs. One important theme is […] The post Voices of experience: The role of people with lived experience across the charitable sector appeared first on CharityVillage.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation? Who decides what is measured?

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Customer Experience: 5 Considerations When Assessing Volunteer Management Software

Volunteer Hub

While these factors are all important, the success of implementation and long-term utilization often hinges on customer experience (CX). What constitutes as great customer experience as it pertains to implementing volunteer management software?

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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

Forward-looking nonprofit organizations know that leveraging data is key to determining where a community’s unmet needs are, securing resources to address those needs, and advocating for more effective policies. Rather than competing for limited resources, we are collaborating to secure funding and bring about policy change.

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. Nonprofit leaders have heard the call but are struggling to meet expectations due to a lack of basic resources, expertise and support. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. are available?

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Evaluating Event Formats: In-Person, Virtual, or Hybrid

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To help simplify your nonprofit event planning processes , this guide will evaluate the three most popular event formats: in-person, virtual, and hybrid. Integrating technology into your in-person event planning can ease your administrative burden and create a more user-friendly guest experience.

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