NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Assessing the technology skills of individual staff Once you have an idea of the skills required for each role in your organization, you will want to evaluate the current skills of each individual and identify needs for learning or supplementing with outside experts. Would that skill be easy to outsource?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. 5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits. Effective communication â??

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion. What might a growth mindset intervention for a nonprofit look like when going through a program evaluation process?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately. As part of a.

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Candid

MARCH 9, 2022

They typically don’t have formalized knowledge of fundraising but are eager to learn. Through the resources at TLCPL, customers can find and evaluate grant funders, download a mailing list of constituents for no cost, perform basic research on prospective donors, draft a strategic plan, and learn about trends across the nonprofit sector.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

Performance evaluations are an imperative aspect of leading and growing. Performance evaluation should give staff the opportunity to set a goal to make change and to help track how they are doing on delivering what it is they promised. Evaluations should not be about power, judgment, blame or failure.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Drivers should be knowledgeable about resources and have the skills to manage projects, develop budgets, create timelines, and communicate progress to stakeholders. The ambassadors’ responsibilities can be configured in multiple ways with the long-term goal of keeping digital knowledge flowing and expanding across your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. It’s all about teaching digital literacy and citizenship: the knowledge and skills necessary to think critically, behave safely, and interact responsibly in a digital world. Teaching them to use creative tools responsibly?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture. Part 2 offers checklists and reminders for these basic skills. This includes: 1. Facilitated Listening Skills.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The need for local pest control, insurance, copier lease, or related services may change, therefore you should re-evaluate annually. Mandy’s dynamic teaching style brings thousands of people annually to her presentations at conventions, trainings, and workshops, in person and online. Funding For Good, Inc.

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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? Detail a process.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Additionally, nine in 10 respondents evaluated their organization’s use of technology as excellent/good across all areas. She oversees trends research reports on higher education and nonprofit topics as well as qualitative research and knowledge management. A self-described “full-stack human,” she is an avid meditator and yogi.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. Be prepared for your new board member to hide their lack of knowledge in this area.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. What does a learning consultant do? Organizational Readiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Source: Zazzle. How do you learn? What do you actually retain? And, what do you actually apply? I’ve really taken to heart the movement principle.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Once you plan your project, it will be easier to evaluate specific funding sources (our next step!) Evaluation Plan. Outcomes are used to identify a change in behavior, attitude, or knowledge in the people being served by the project. For example, an increase in skills of the people you teach. Evaluation Plan.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

The collective knowledge of our Leadership Council makes the Classy Awards a distinction unlike any other. Teach For America. Data and Knowledge Centers. Senior Advisor and Director, Measurement, Evaluation and Organizational Performance. Susan Asiyabi. Chief Transformation Officer. Jacob Harold. Executive Vice President.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can be a method for self-directed learning that builds your expertise while enhancing your organization’s brand and content strategy. Content curation can empower us to learn more and use that knowledge to get deeper impact for our nonprofit’s programs.

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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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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

To begin we should evaluate what a younger version of myself experienced in the learning process. Some people are able to see something once, and commit that piece of knowledge into their memory for the rest of their lives. Knowing this has aided me immensely in my quest for knowledge. Know they exist.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

I could talk about learning techniques utilized in the past seven games and why players were less intimidated by pitches they encountered the second and third time around, or possibly what a combined 176 years of waiting can teach us in preparing for the future. Measuring Learning. Statistics are powerful. Data and Data Quality Disclaimer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. This is evaluation. You want to evaluate your training against your learning goals –and also get feedback about how to improve the delivery or instructional exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This was my chance to put my teachings to work for Praxis. If you haven’t evaluated your board before, you can use this board tune up kit , produced by board coach Michael Davidson, as a starting point. Evaluating your board is something you should do regularly but must done before setting out to find new board members.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. That’s teaching. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. Fundamentally that’s what teaching should be. How do you evaluate organizations that you invest in that develop games to support learning?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Although it might seem strange, because they participate freely and out of their own time, organizations should recruit, delegate, evaluate and show appreciation like they would with any employee. Provide support through sharing knowledge, information, and plans with them. Volunteer Evaluation. Volunteer Recruiting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

One of my main projects this past year, and continuing into 2015 was to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

For outcomes, we identified a few: NGOs share their knowledge with one another. 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. Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Manager of Knowledge Resources, Research and Academic Affairs, ASU Lodestar Center. The more a person’s job includes the following elements, the harder it is to fairly evaluate (and reward) individual performance: 1. It's no surprise when employees perceive job performance evaluations as unfair. Stephanie La Loggia, M.A.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Three, tie in scenarios that closely relate to the learners’ work life, and fourthly, break down the learning into components allowing for appropriate levels of comprehension and knowledge gain. Transitioning Compliance into a game. Don’t just port your compliance training over to a gaming platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Those of us who have planned, executed and evaluated these types of contests for good on behalf of major brands have done so with the best intentions and not to “cause wash” — i.e., buy good brand karma under the guise of philanthropy. Just evaluating all the submissions can take many, many people hours.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

It’s that there is a lack of really good support – responsive, empowering, educational, integrative, and knowledgeable about, and invested in, the sector. There are many challenges – how do you teach self-reflection and self-evaluation? How do you teach the ins and outs of the nonprofit sector?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2006

The initial focus is to teach Doorknocking, a local organizing technique. It hard to evaluate without the face-to-face training, but the "game" takes you through the skills/knowledge needed for an effective campaign and at the end of each step, you play a "game." Here's the beta launch of the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis. Support a fun icebreake r.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. This online community, Engage365 , is a place to network and share knowledge about how to integrate the use of social media for events. For the intermediate users, I put them to work sharing their knowledge. It has 400 members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

(You can get a discount of $20 off the registration by entering the code “Beth” when you sign up ). This year, since content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching , I’ll be doing a conversational presentation on the topic.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? We welcome your input and feedback. ^ [1] Wing, K.

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