Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Last spring at the “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations ” meeting convened by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, practitioners from social media, measurement, evaluation, programs, communication, and philanthropy worked on a synthesis of these disciplines to address measurement.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

There are three main components to integrating impact management practices in your organization: continuous evidence building, participant-centered program management, and integrated financial management. Because traditionally, impact measurement has been performed by siloed teams, the burden on them to collect good evidence is huge.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 14, 2021

Great evidence exists that nonprofit professionals face obstacles, mostly their own preconceived ideas, around proactively involving program beneficiaries in their program practices. These program practices include needs assessment, decision-making, program implementation, and evaluation.

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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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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

We’ll cover five best practices you can use to improve your texting strategy and earn more for your mission: Ask every supporter to opt in. Any nonprofit can benefit from these best practices, even if you’re new to text marketing or have limited resources. Segment your list of contacts. Write tailored messages for every occasion.

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Practice Puerto Rico Fundraising Metrics 59

Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

The specifics of your strategy are going to vary depending on your industry or your members’ interests or any one of a hundred other factors—but there are certain best practices that pretty much all successful nonprofit association strategies have in common. Your strategy should carefully outline how your nonprofit will manage its funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media.

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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. The Playbook gives you an examples.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Nonprofit teams have a lot on their plates: not only do they have to run their programs as best they can to help their beneficiaries, but they have to run their internal organization also. Often, nonprofits react to funders’ requirements regarding what to measure, though it can be difficult to obtain funding for impact measurement.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. It’s about making sure that your questions align with your organizational values and your goals for the grantmaking program. Provide a description or best practices as a second part to the question, if needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” Despite the difficulty of working measurement in a generic way, the output from sessions was quite valuable. Elizabeth R.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. ” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Formative Evaluation.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. Board members should be able to help you decide if the programs and services you currently have are pertinent to the mission.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Consider using scoring rubrics or structured interview protocols to standardize evaluations and minimize bias to keep things equitable. Investing in an impressive onboarding program can turn enthusiasm into effectiveness. Use board development programs. Board development programs are goldmines for finding dedicated individuals.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the following essentials: Employee Engagement FAQs Employee Engagement Dos and Don’ts Employee Engagement Program Ideas Employee Engagement Plan Template Let’s explore why employee engagement is so critical and how you can promote it on an everyday basis. Create employee engagement programs. Tech stack.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

UTM Tracking Best Practices. UTMs are necessary for campaign and program tracking. They help to measure performance and see how far along you are in meeting campaign goals or even a secondary goal, like cultivating and engaging audiences. . UTM Tracking Best Practices. How does UTM Tracking Work? Key Parameters.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. These action steps are designed to correspond with the developmental stage of your fundraising program. Not all fundraising programs look alike. The post starts off with general guidance.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. Grantee evaluation is a perennial hot topic in the foundation world, nonprofit evaluation is a lucrative industry in universities, and there is a whole high tech industry emerging to rate charities online led by Charity Navigator.

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2022

We’ve taken a closer look at the Jane-A-Thon event to provide some best practices that can be applied to your spring peer-to-peer fundraising events. Best Practice #1: Have A Peer-To-Peer Platform. Best Practice #2: Easy Registration. Best Practice #3: Introduce Incentives And Prizes.

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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. January 2018 : Ok, can we agree on some best practices how to address this as grantors and grantees?

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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 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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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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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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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

For example, while many nonprofit organizations prioritize program development and delivery, they often overlook the importance of investing in their internal infrastructure, including leadership, management, operations, fundraising, and marketing, because it is not directly tied to program costs.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

As we look to the future, it’s essential to examine how grantmaking practices can evolve to promote greater equity and inclusivity. Most recently, many of these equity initiatives and programs are being challenged directly, on a global scale.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The ROI Methodology was implemented globally in the 1990s and since then has become one of the most used evaluation systems in the world, as it is used routinely in more than 6,000 organizations in 70 countries. This new book describes six easy steps to measure and improve the success of any project, program, initiative, or work that you do.

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NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

2021 was an eventful year at NTEN as we continued to promote, work towards, and model equitable practices internally and externally. This evaluation process involves all three equity committees, including board, community, and staff. This evaluation process involves all three equity committees, including board, community, and staff.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

foundationConnect enabled us to work better together — from funders and applicants to program staff and grantees, stronger connections were built within our organization. Salesforce understands the elements of your funding practices that are important to you: improved outcomes, advancing equality, and furthering your organization’s impact.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Whether your nonprofit is working to improve volunteer management or the success of your community outreach programs, you’re likely considering the impact of your planned or existing actions. . Impact metrics are vital to: Identify program gaps and areas of need within your organization. Program attendance. Program completion.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. It was a comprehensive process including an open-call part 1, an invitation-only part 2, a site visit for finalists, and a presentation highlighting best practices. Here are a few lessons we learned along the way.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Programs and Services: Description of the nonprofit’s activities and how they align with its mission. Strategic Goals and Objectives: Specific and measurable targets the nonprofit aims to achieve. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This awareness may need practical steps such as diversity trainings and workshops to build empathy and understanding for the need of the community. This phase starts with evaluating current board composition using a board matrix. This phase starts with evaluating current board composition using a board matrix.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 21, 2023

So, you’ve been tasked with running a volunteer program. Running a successful volunteer program means managing a lot of moving parts. Your Responsibilities Running a Volunteer Program Your goals, responsibilities, and schedule largely depend on your volunteer program, but, chances are you wear many hats.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this guide, we’ll provide four CRM training best practices. Data Security: Explain the measures in place to protect sensitive information and ensure compliance with relevant data protection regulations, such as GDPR or CCPA. A CRM is the backbone of effective communication, engagement , and fundraising strategies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Stakeholders should be asking how do we identify effective practices throughout the organization and how do we improve organizational effectiveness to achieve greater impact? Meaningful tools to evaluate effectiveness are largely absent (Liket and Maas, 2015).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

KD Paine and I had the pleasure of interviewing the Arlene McCrehan social media team at Goodwill for our soon to be launched book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Goodwill uses measurement and learning in its evolution into a networked nonprofit. How will you measure it? ” # 150jobs – ow.ly/dm4V4.

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