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Trends in Impact Evaluation That Can Work in Your Favor

NonProfit PRO

Trends in evaluation are worth paying attention to. They may not take over your social media feed with witty memes or become the latest office buzz, but they are profoundly important for nonprofits.

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How Water.org Adapted Their Social Media Content Strategy in Response to COVID-19

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The current social media environment has caused non-profit marketers to re-evaluate their content aware of the acute conversations being had on every channel, at a global level. We chose to abandon anything that did not give users a clear reason for why Water.org’s content was in their feed that day.

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The Not-So-Secret Way to Power Your Nonprofit’s Future Growth

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Optimize your programs Evaluate the success of programs and initiatives by reviewing participant feedback, attendance, and outcomes. Conclusion Event registration and the data collected feeds your nonprofit’s growth. Maybe it’s time to conduct some personal outreach! In turn, people join their local chapter as members.

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How Should Funders Evaluate Charities?

Care2

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. For example, if they are a local soup kitchen, how many people are they feeding every day? How effective is that organization in creating real world social change?

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

The right team feeds off the energy of the group. The right team also feeds on the energy of the group. Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills. Member-centricity is also a glue that can help people work with a common purpose.

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If Racial Equity is Our North Star, How Can We Navigate Racial Bias in AI/LLMs?

John Kenyon

Feed the system explicit instructions and examples displaying equitable behavior. Rigorously evaluate an LLM or AI’s performance across sensitive demographics before anything else. Layer human oversight, fact-checking, and diverse perspective-taking into any public-facing workflow. Humans must apply an equity lens.

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2009 NTC Preview: Karen Michaelson on Evaluation

NTEN

Time is a luxury we don't have in our line of work -- which is why I think so many of us resist evaluation. Why would you reflect on how you feed people when you could just go feed people? Evaluation helps us do our work better, and we all want to do our work better. Of course, we know better.