Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. This is a really great post to read for anyone thinking about how to measure, evaluate, and even consider the impact of social media use (and that should be everyone). "Over

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

We knew we would ultimately be in 16 countries by the year 2020, which meant that tracking, monitoring, and evaluating projects would become more complicated by the day. There are skilled tradespeople in every country we serve, and local talent makes our model far more sustainable. (As We don’t have to pretend to be perfect.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

In order to counter the pending “leadership deficit,” organizations must take a new approach to building HPT’s, which involves approaching human resources strategically, creating a development plan, building a supportive culture and measuring performance. Measure Performance. Approach Human Resources Strategically.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will. They say things like, “We will create X program, it will serve Y people, in Z months, and it will create these A, B, C forms of measurable impact,” but do they really know any of that?

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. The Trevor Project.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Scalable programs should be based on a strong theory of change or logic model, clearly linking program inputs to outcomes in a way that can be tested and evaluated to determine actual effectiveness. If program evaluation has been done well, this may be one useful tool to help convince stakeholders to buy in (Harris, 2010).

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2019

At Common Impact, we’ve identified three keys that will help you confidently structure a pro bono project, identify organizational challenges your potential partner could help solve, and propose a skills-based volunteer engagement that meets your nonprofit’s needs and supports the interest of the volunteers.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This is the easiest way forward as you will have an immediate template for your grant project. Additionally, make sure to read through the FOA/RFP/NOFA and include: A response to how your project aligns with the funding sources’ priorities. The reason is that research anchors and validates the entire reason for your project.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The art aspect refers to how well an inspired writer describes a project and the grant-seeking organization. Some of the most common errors with grant proposals as identified from the perspective of the grant reviewer are: Poorly planned projects, goals, and outcomes. Unclear and unconvincing project descriptions.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2019

This new, free online platform provides organizations with resources, interactive tools and a network to help them understand how pro bono service can best support their work, design and implement a skilled volunteer project, and measure the immediate and long-term impact of this work. If you need a wider range of skills (e.g.

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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. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2012

Project Manager. Models of Collaboration , by professor Mark Hager and Tyler Curry, identifies and describes types of nonprofit collaborations from an analysis of the 177 nominations submitted in 2009 for the prestigious Collaboration Prize. Types of collaboration that are shared with the Collaboration Prize’s Models of Collaboration.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

An eLearning assessment is a tool used to assess your members’ understanding of a topic and document that information in a measurable way. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. This tests knowledge acquisition. What are the different types of online assessment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Your organization needs to think holistically. If you don’t have a developmental model, you won’t know where to start or how to prioritize your time. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model. Or as Inga Broerman, Guide Star VP of Marketing said, “You won’t know what to say no to.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

As with all the capacity building projects that I’ve designed, it is based on a framework and theory of change. The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Michaela Hackner, Project Director, Forum One Communications. Think about the newspaper model. Content Strategy is basically bringing elements of the newspaper model to websites. Using all of the information you captured during the content audit, you can evaluate your content’s quality. Is it up-to-date?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Data doesn’t just allow organizations to create profiles of the people you serve, it also serves as a bridge to extremely valuable impact measurement. Combined with check-ins with the grantee or partner throughout the project, these clear expectations of impact increase the chances of hitting your shared goals. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The project includes face-to-face training , webinar , as well as one-on-one coaching provided by the expert team at SpitFire. Grantees get better at communication, proactive planning, partner engagement, message discipline and social media integration and measurement. Friending the Finish Line.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2016

Although Refugee Mobile will be distributed between four cities, Dallas will serve the most clients and provide additional front line support for the whole project. Demonstration and learning: where LIRS, RST, Sparrow, and LEO evaluate the model’s effectiveness against a control group. It will include.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

We look at the wrong measures or unrealistic outcomes. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, speak at the Packard Foundation. This is the essence of developmental evaluation. It helps lay the overall groundwork, iron out some of the wrinkles, and provide a model to follow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project. Participants voted on the questions that would be most important for the Brainerd Foundation to consider in its strategy: How might we adopt a hybrid model of new and old power? How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We’ll go over how to evaluate your organization’s own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employee engagement strategies later on. Without an objective in mind or ways to measure progress, employees can feel less driven. However, as we’ll explore later, there are plenty of ways to engage remote employees as well. Tech stack.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2015

At the end of the day, you are measured by how much money you made or lost. Since most of our organizations don''t have one very specific, measurable mission (i.e. ending chronic homelessness"), we measure lots of things. In contrast, I''ve got a mirrored funhouse of measurements for success. The goal is to make money.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

While there was evidence of plenty of community engagement work across museums and galleries, most of it was funded project by project. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Extra credit if you read the Our Museum evaluation (or its summary ) as well.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Does your IT staff have both the time and the expertise to tackle your website projects? If change is a constant at your org and you are considering an outsourced model, you’ll need to know how responsive your potential Drupal shop or consultant is. No one model is best; like everything, it should be evaluated on a case by case basis.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

They support and extend the larger trends that are shaping both charity and business operations -- whether those trends are flex time, impact measurement, real time data, or open APIs -- and allow you to gain the benefits of those larger trends without really having to think about it much. The Next Generation of Charity Apps are in the Cloud.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Undertaking a full-scale collaborative inquiry project may seem overwhelming, so you might want to start in a more limited way with any process that engages your board, staff, volunteers and/or clients in meaningful deep discussions. A thorough collaborative inquiry process will follow a process which includes: Framing the issue.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2015

Understanding and using predictive modeling to determine who your future annual, major, and planned gift donors are – and how much can they give your organization. As you evaluate data analytics products, remember to keep a close eye on your institution’s objectives for implementation.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

They support and extend the larger trends that are shaping both charity and business operations -- whether those trends are flex time, impact measurement, real time data, or open APIs -- and allow you to gain the benefits of those larger trends without really having to think about it much. The Next Generation of Charity Apps are in the Cloud.

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Hype Charity API Iowa 76

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The developers of each project have completely different sets of assumptions about what the right way to do things is, and completely different philosophies and ethos when it comes to building interfaces and functionality. If it had been, we would have done a lot more work on how to measure security. 2 admin 04.03.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. Next, you need to know the right metric(s), the tool or combination of tools to collect the data, and how the tools measure the metric. Understand how the model works , but don't get distracted. There are other ways to measure your RSS reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Measurement is the major theme as the sector grows up. However, there was also a plea not to make evaluation painful, collecting huges amount of data and not using it to improve a program. The need for some experimentation before a program or project rolls out or scales. The context is that many projects don't offer this.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

A theory of change is a model that connects: the activities we do, to the outcomes they effect, to the impact we seek to create in the world. We developed a final version of the theory in a wonky powerpoint flowchart model. Here are some questions for Ian about his side of the experience working with us on this project.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. . Luckily, we, like all successful groups in the field, excelled at anecdotal evaluation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who” thought it up or campaigned for it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

. :-) I first started doing technology consulting for nonprofit organizations in 1996, with a project for a local public television station ( WGBY in Springfield, MA ), to design a technology center for teachers to learn about technology and the internet, so they could apply that in their classrooms.

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