ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Other areas include: communications, executive transition, evaluation/learning, networking/convening, and professional development. But, like anything else, to improve results, you need to measure it. My colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director. If so, what approaches lead to the greatest impact and under what conditions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. Many times, nonprofits, especially smaller ones, do not have the resources to hire outside consultants to measure the impact of their programs. Europe and Latin America.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

Sponsored Post by: Accelerist , a leader in social impact partnership technology, supporting hundreds of brands and charitable organizations in finding and growing their partnerships with each other. The impact that partner (or any kind of donor) retention can have on a charitable organization should be no different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Every social sector organization can and should be doing impact management ! There are three main components to integrating impact management practices in your organization: continuous evidence building, participant-centered program management, and integrated financial management. In other words, one size doesn’t fit all.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

With the rise of smartphones, it seems like everyone’s constantly on social media, making it the perfect marketing tool for your nonprofit! Infact, there are over 308 million social media users in the United States alone. Learn how your organization can take full advantage of social media in this guide!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Case Management Tools Measure impact A unified solution to help you collect actionable program data, develop comprehensive reports, and share how you’re impacting your community. Advanced features enable you to compare program impact, conduct in-depth analysis, and automate report delivery to stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2014

However, few of us working in the social impact space could admit to utilizing storytelling to its fullest potential. We’re far more connected to stories and information than we have ever been, yet the noise and ubiquity of the digital world makes it harder to surface and share personal stories of change and impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’m very excited for this learning experience because over the two years my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has focused on going deep on facilitating peer learning for grantees on measuring outcomes for their networks with social media while balancing and upholding the principles of being networked.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Performance measurement (PM) informs strategic decisions. Social problems still endure, despite PM’s prominence as a way to ensure accountability and inform strategic decisions since the 1960’s. According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Social Velocity. If each nonprofit organization is now creating their own theory of change, and their own outcome and impact measurements, how do we compare those to another nonprofit’s outcome and impact measures? Data evaluation Leadership Nell Edgington nptech nten social velocity Strategy success Program'

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2014

One organization's efforts to bring you a catalog of tools to track your impact in the field. What if nonprofits and social enterprises had an affordable way to report real-time, large-scale data on their social impact? Data ICT program evaluation Program' Thanks, team.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Social Velocity. If each nonprofit organization is now creating their own theory of change, and their own outcome and impact measurements, how do we compare those to another nonprofit’s outcome and impact measures? Data evaluation Leadership Nell Edgington nptech nten social velocity Strategy success Program'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

However, in the dynamic landscape of contemporary social change, there is a growing recognition of the need to evolve from this conventional approach toward a more collaborative and inclusive model—one grounded in partnership. Evaluation of partnership: Regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the board-staff relationship.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Be sure to make your campaign’s goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound ( SMART goals ). For example, on social media you’ll want to modify your language to be simple yet engaging to encourage sharing.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It is the largest mission area in the social sector. Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. The Idealware report called The Reality of Measuring Human Service Programs: Results of a Survey has some pretty interesting findings on this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And at a conference like Growing Social Impact in a Networked World ([link] I made several lists–in my notebook, on my iPad, emails to myself, and on those very cool hexagonal Post-its. Notes from Discussion. Guest post by Tom Kelly. I am a list maker. To followup.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2024

This begs the question: What should community college completion look like, and what measures of attainment equate to success in this higher education sector? An expanded overview of two-year diploma acquisition at three years and beyond increases traditional completion rates, but only minimally.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Social enterprises, however, could help solve this problem. Social enterprises are when money-making endeavors aim to have a social impact. Social enterprises are not cheap and financial investments of this size, particularly in the nonprofit world, can make executives and leaders hesitate. Risks and rewards.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This shift was marked by commitments of increased funding, greater flexibility in grantmaking practices, and a focus on social and economic systems transformation. My many years of experience collecting and analyzing data as an evaluator naturally lead me to ask: What has been the measurable impact of this important shift?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Because what gets measured gets better.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

Nonprofits are doing important work every day that impacts lives and makes our world even better. But due to many common challenges to constantly reach new donors, retain existing donors, and increase operational efficiency the amount of effort to impact lives doesn’t always result in the high return it should.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

In our most recent white paper, “ Exploring Environmental Social Governance ” we include a section that picks apart the pieces of ESG, including a list of some of the items under the “social” category. Different countries face different challenges when it comes to social justice. Want to see what this looks like in action?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Last week I attended the launch of the book, Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector by William F. Together these best practices form an “engine of impact” that nonprofits need to build, maintain, and hone over time to scale with results. Source: Engine of Impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all for fear of being carried off their feet.”. One such model is the Social Impact Bond (SIB).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2016

This is merely a way of underlining the importance of making an explicit statement about the causal relationship between what a nonprofit organization does and the impact that it has promised to deliver. In the past few years, it’s become fashionable to talk about the importance of a “ theory of change ” for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Meet Bib Filbon and Jeff Bladt who have the job title, “Data Scientist,” and are on staff at DoSomething.Org. They work in partnership with DoSomething’s program staff to collect, analyze, and make sense of data to improve impact of DoSomething’s programs. What is funder’s role to support good measurement?

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore the significance of advancing equity in philanthropic grantmaking and discuss actionable steps that donors, organizations, and social changemakers can take to make a meaningful impact. This means moving away from rigid funding structures and timelines toward more agile and responsive approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What are the key results of this campaign ?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The true test of any nonprofit is to demonstrate impact. But the first test is to set up a way to measure it. Every nonprofit aims to have impact, but few have the systems in place to calculate little more than outputs. For nonprofits, measuring their broader impact can be easier said than done.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

By embracing a community leadership role, foundations can amplify their impact and empower grantees to achieve long-term, sustainable success. These non-cash opportunities can sometimes be more impactful than a grant itself.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Anthem Awards were created to highlight and amplify the most impactful and inspiring work across seven core purposes: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion; Education, Art, & Culture; Health; Human & Civil Rights; Humanitarian Action & Services; Responsible Technology; and Sustainability, Environment, & Climate.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 4, 2024

Donation Drives Amplify Impact By pooling resources, donation drives amplify the impact of individual contributions. Social Media Amplification Social media serves as a powerful amplifier for donation drives, allowing organizations to share compelling stories, engage with supporters in real-time, and create viral campaigns.

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