ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Performance measurement (PM) informs strategic decisions. To truly move the needle towards ameliorating social challenges throughout the world, we must revisit the efficacy of what has been measured and how. Develop indicators to include learning as part of PM. Tell the story of learning. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

SMART is an acronym people use to remember the five aspects of a well-articulated goal: SMART goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. For example, knowing that you want to increase a specific type of membership can make all the difference in measurement, analysis, and strategy. Formulate SMART Goals.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 4, 2022

To gain further perspective on which goals your organization should set, you’ll need to evaluate the type of members you hope to recruit. Start by reflecting on how your association defines an ideal member. Do your members value professional development and learning opportunities? Learn more. View now.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. Meanwhile, I’d like to offer my own recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I entered the community as a foundation evaluator wanting to find the best strategies and tools for documenting and learning about networks but also for measuring those difficult-to-pin-down outcomes and impact. Evaluation can also help foundations get the feedback they need to modulate their role and influence.

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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. That’s where learning and transformation begins!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Do you use it to inform your decisions, evaluate your outcomes, or improve your practices? If your application has not changed in more than three years, it may not reflect your current goals, strategies, or priorities. If your organization values equity, diversity, inclusion, or innovation, does your application reflect that?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. Here are a few lessons we learned along the way. In its blog post “ Practical Tools to Help Grantmakers put Learning First ,” the Johnson Center for Philanthropy reminds us how challenging this can be. Take it out. Streamline your process!

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Letting grantees lead: What we’re learning from the BUILD evaluation. Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible, harmful way to measure nonprofit effectiveness. The Power of Dialogue about Nonprofit Data and Evaluation. Joint Statement of Associations Advancing Equitable Evaluation Practices. Evaluating a Culture.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They are setting the stage for transparent communication when evaluating compatibility and complementary “value exchange between partners” are in effect. Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection. Engage in rigorous self-reflection to gauge readiness across multiple dimensions. Recommendations.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Cybersecurity is the proactive approach you take to identify any vulnerable points, implement simple protective measures, and effectively respond to potential attacks. This limitation can make it even more challenging to implement and maintain comprehensive cybersecurity measures. Why do nonprofits need to worry about cybersecurity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. Limited – possess a defined scope and duration.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Unfortunately, in the nonprofit boardroom, this change has yet to be reflected. This phase starts with evaluating current board composition using a board matrix. It is a good idea to have specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-based - SMART - goals. Phase 3: Evaluate and celebrate. African American and 2.6%

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

How We Learn – Capitalize On Knowing. This post is written based on my personal understanding and could reflect deficiencies experienced in my own personal learning process. To begin we should evaluate what a younger version of myself experienced in the learning process.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 19, 2016

The Olympics – A Guideline to Continuous Learning. One cannot help but reflect back on these past few weeks, the incredible athletes and what they have accomplished. That many outsiders will never see, and being highlighted in these efforts is the incredible underlying process of continuous learning. Develop a Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample SMART fundraising goals Reflect on Your Focus Areas Begin by asking yourself some key questions related to your goals and focus areas. As you reflect on these questions, feel free to update the answers accordingly in your fundraising plan. Evaluate your progress and determine whether you are on track to meet your targets.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

How do you measure the value of that experience? THE RESEARCH The challenge, of course, was to figure out how to evaluate the experience in a way that would help us identify the power of the project. I think most of us are familiar with interview and survey-based evaluation methods. A man walks into a museum. He shares a story.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Not only do you need to look inward at your own operations, but you also need to make sure your funding reflects those same goals. Learn more about reporting options with your GMS by downloading our whitepaper, 3 Ways Dashboards Help Grantmakers Make Sense of Their Data. But for grantmaking organizations, the DEI effort is two-fold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Wins 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award. My Theme for the Year: Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

The process is: Listen, Learn, Adapt. He is describing what an organization with a " learning organization " culture does and applying it to social media. Nonprofits need to learn the insights and also understand the value of the investment. Are you evaluating current processes and updating them as needed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start. One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

As a member of the NTEN Board, I used this framework to help us work through our performance evaluation process. Yes, but only certain types of external evaluation (Pillar 7) can be undertaken by small nonprofits, namely formative evaluation. Experimental impact evaluations are too expensive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. Here’s what I learned: Definition: A culture of continuous improvement. The term means learning culture. Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Webinar Next-Level Storytelling Tactics for Nonprofits Learn More 5. Outlining measures to protect sensitive information will help you earn the trust and confidence of your members. Addressing cybersecurity and data privacy is important, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Here’s what I learned.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

It also seeks to provide a common baseline of the diversity of the field, as well as ensure that demographic data is available to those who can make use of it to evaluate their programs and assess progress around equity. “Gender” combines two survey questions and reflects organizations that have answered either question.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

I had planned to take the day off from work to remember and reflect on the service of those in my family (my grandfather, now passed), and in my community. obviously tied to the campaign, and reflective of the call to action means it is likely people will use it and engage. Sharing across platforms – Instagram and Foursquare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

A huge thanks to the small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle and published blog posts to share their reflections and thoughts. Networking sessions allow for peer interaction and connections to help you turn learning into action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I used PostRank to evaluate the engagement of posts. Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada. I have no way to measure the guest blogging impact on other people's blogs accept by self-reporting. How could I have done a better job of measuring its success?

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Learn how your organization can take full advantage of social media in this guide! Key metrics to measure on social media Like with any campaign, it’s important to decide on how you’re going to measure the success of your social media strategy. Learn how you can engage your community on social media with this guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data. I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. Measuring Networked Nonprofits: Using Data for Social Change is the topic of the book I’m co-authoring with KD Paine. Often overwhelmed.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. This tests knowledge acquisition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

The participants are the content – and the design of getting participants into small group discussions where we can discuss topics related to our work that we are passionate about and want to explore and learn. These discussions are not lectures or traditional panels and are participant driven. The notes are here.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent). Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021.

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