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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

How will you evaluate your results and measure impact? Little Green Light is great for startups, as is Bloomerang, which has a free version that might work for your organization in the very early stages. Make sure your program aligns with your mission. Will your Board support this program? Will donors give money to sustain the program?

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is called “Rose, Bud, Thorn.” Participants reviewed their notes from the expert sessions, and wrote down challenges on blue sticky notes, strengths on pink sticky notes, and opportunities on green sticky notes. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? However, thats hard enough to do when evaluating any one nonprofit organization, let alone the many thousands that we would like to compare. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D. The Holy Grail for an informational watchdog like Charity Navigator is to actually (gasp!)

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How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

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How To Be A Green Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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Let’s Connect at the NTC!

Amy Sample Ward

Workshop leaders will offer feedback and evaluation. This cross-platform event allowed for multiple levels of interaction with the single goal of teaching nonprofits how to tell stories digitally. Greening Your Technology – [Cottonwood B] (#greentech). Who : Speakers: Anna S. Follow the Conference Live.

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7 Tips to Make You A Stronger Facilitator

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

ETR is a non-profit that develops and evaluates health education programs. Learn from others (we love the Teaching Transgender Toolkit by Luca Maurer and Eli Green). And some go onto a wait-and-see list (“How come that worked so well when I watched Deb do it, and it was such a flop when I tried it?”).