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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Evaluation Generation Method Slides 97

.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

But scenarios are also a tool that can be used to evaluate longer-term initiatives. CEOs must be role models for their teams. Cultivating continuous learning—Identifying what you don’t know and striving to fill the knowledge gaps. Scenario planning helps you to see around the corners, and to imagine what might lie ahead.

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Milwaukee Wisconsin Associations Lesson 221

.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

The Critical Questions will prompt you to evaluate your organization’s current status. Set clear expectations and roles from the beginning. Resist the temptation to model the competition. But they share a common enthusiasm for bold ideas, new knowledge, and an adventurous approach to business. Be the disruption.

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Advice Course Associations Change 170

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

What is funder’s role to support good measurement? Now many funders have funded measurement via third-party evaluations and as a result think they’ve funded measurement. The St Luke’s Foundation in Cleveland realigned using the premises of Leap of Reason and has redefined its own role and purpose: Bigger Investments.

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Measure Roles Support Literacy 99

Candid

MARCH 9, 2022

Candid : What would you like people to know about your services and how you view your role in the community? The self-service model of public libraries allows individuals to explore at their own pace, and a librarian like me can help guide the process by sharing vetted tools and resources and how to maximize their impact.

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Library Grant Local Roles 98

Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Coming into the association space as a developer eventually shifted into combining my technical skills with my people and business understanding and becoming an Applications Analyst and several other roles. You can evaluate where you’d like to go back to and spend more time. Fun fact about Dave. Sanchi’s background.

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Celebrate Fun Associations Product 135

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

However, here are some potential use cases to help you visualize the role a data warehouse could play in your organization’s operations: Identify specific audience segments for marketing purposes. To succeed, you’ll need time, knowledge, and a proper technology infrastructure on your side.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

It involves reinventing work processes, improving channels of communication, and asking your staff to imagine their roles and responsibilities differently. They should be role models who inspire colleagues to see from a different perspective. These roles need not be filled by the management team.

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Collaboration Digital Build Organization 44

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

“Innovating at the speed of communities&# is a big goal, but something organizations and civic institutions can learn a lot from as a model. Communities As A Model. Communities share, pass on, and constantly expand a collective wisdom and knowledge from experiences, events, movements and legacy. Who’s with me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

And while this model is describing individual behavior, individuals make up organizations – so I think it is important for people working in organizations to understand, whether they are the executive director or the social media manager. Oftentimes, they fail because the previous steps have not been given enough thought or time.

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Technique Training Train Learning 127

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. Optimization of Sales Tools, Knowledge Base and other Assets. What is Sales Operations?

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Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 145

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

When staff are happy and feel good with not only the work they are doing, but know that they are appreciated and are shown that their work matters, the likelihood of them sticking around in their role is much higher. Performance evaluations are an imperative aspect of leading and growing. Use the resources that are available to you.

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Professional Develop California Skills 52

Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

The collective knowledge of our Leadership Council makes the Classy Awards a distinction unlike any other. Prior to her current role, she spent 15 years in for-profit and higher education institutions with a focus in organizational development and leadership effectiveness. Data and Knowledge Centers. Feeding America.

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Award Leadership Cleveland Hunger 57

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Afterall, nonprofit is your tax status, it shouldn’t be your business model. Re-imagine work roles – When cutting costs It’s never easy to let staff members go , but “employees on payroll” come with extra expenses. The best leaders understand two things must happen to sustain a nonprofit: SAVING money and RAISING money.

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Money Nonprofit United States Fund 98

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

The emergence of microfinance and social entrepreneurship has given rise to new ideas about the role of venture capital in the social sector. However, there are questions surrounding the inherent stability of these new business models, given the complexity of financial and other federal and state regulatory requirements.

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Impact Research Tools Social 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm. What models of “collective impact” or multi-stakeholder collaborations have emerged; is there a typology? How do these networks evolve over time?

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Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. This tests knowledge acquisition. Further, they can understand their own knowledge and areas of improvement that they should seek to alleviate. What is the importance of eLearning assessments?

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The Vera Institute (2015) offers this definition of social impact bonds: “In a social impact bond, private investors fund an intervention through an intermediary organization—and the government repays the funder only if the program achieves certain goals, which are specified at the outset of the initiative and assessed by an independent evaluator.”.

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Program Management South Africa Evaluation 58

Gyrus

APRIL 7, 2016

Compliance training ensures that employees, contractors, and partners have the right knowledge and understanding to comply with an organization’s legal, operational, ethical aspects of business. Senior executives should be the role models for employees to build a strong compliance culture at every level of an organization.

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Training Train Measure Evaluation 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. The debriefing prompted a wide range of insights, particularly how to facilitate a training when you have individuals with a wide range of knowledge and skills.

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Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 93

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Well, you’ll find that much of the work that involves your community, whether it’s building up the community, working on engagement, listening, evaluation, or anything else, involves strategy that goes in a circle. Lastly, you’ll want to identify what roles are needed. The first step: Who’s your community? Strive to Be Replaced.

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Case Study Community Impact Studies 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The chat was a prelude to a convening on April 25th at the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation of 40 thinkers and practitioners, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise into discussions to develop measures for evaluating the impact of social media on philanthropic outcomes. Marc shared his expert knowledge and here are some notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

It allows us to get on the same page – literally – with the same set of data from which to base our assumptions, and to fill in our gaps in knowledge to make more informed decisions. This learning model has served us well, and above all it has been safe and comfortable.

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Public Learning Sound Environment 94

Qgiv

AUGUST 2, 2022

To maximize the potential of your key volunteers, it helps to organize them into a fundraising event committee with specific roles and expectations. Committee members will be able to grow their knowledge and pass it along future committee members. What are the benefits of working with a fundraising event committee?

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Build Fundraising Tips Volunteer 59

.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2024

In my role as a consultant, these are four core qualities that I’ve observed. The knowledge and skill to execute initiatives at a high level. Trust isn’t just about modeling good behavior or making people like you. They understand that when you commit to making your team successful, they will live up to your expectations.

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Attitude Skills Environment Team 221

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 29, 2011

In fact, with over thirty years of proven fundraising success, he certainly knows a little something about that complex question: "So, what is the board's role in fundraising?". Develop a board matrix that identifies the skills, knowledge, and resource development potential you're seeking. Your board is your destiny. It's brilliant.

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Build Phoenix Roles Develop 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. Resources: What is the network’s funding model?

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Review Change Cleveland Generation 106

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

John Hancock also recruits the help of an external evaluator to ensure they understand what’s working and where there may be challenges given so many partners and participants. With all stakeholders, the program has the resources to drive their desired outcome on a large scale.

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Boston Collaboration Help Literacy 27

NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Community ownership of software is in itself consonant with the missions of many nonprofit organizations, whose role is in strengthening community. Open source software is also playing an increasing role in fueling the rapidly growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) and on-demand applications space. and licensing models.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? Community-Driven Model. Why Community?

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Library Model Adopt Community 241

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . This is what we need you to do, so roles and responsibilities, those were sent out in advance before anybody then ultimately committed. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. .

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People Community Video Podcast 76

Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. You can download the research report and find out about the research model, methods, analysis and implications for the field.

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Intergenerational Museum NSF Facilitation 53

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And this is one where these guys definitely have a lot of knowledge. And like I say very often on these sessions, I always look for folks with that firsthand fundraising knowledge. You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants. Check them out.

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Campaign Video Project Process 88

See3

JUNE 15, 2007

A mix of wonkish policy speak, amazing knowledge of his subjects, and compelling stories of meeting people all over the world. Actuallly, dessert was Clinton and Curry… two good role models for all of us. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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Darfur Columbus FAQ Africa 40

Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Philanthropists, nonprofits, and the development sector as a whole cannot underestimate the role they have to play in understanding and using technology for development. Systems thinking and knowledge management become critical skills for philanthropists. But they must also be informed about the implications of its use.

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Philanthropy Develop Technology Government 36

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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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