ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

As a grantmaker, questions are your tools. They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. But are you asking the right questions? Why Change Up Your Questions? Changing up your questions is not just about making cosmetic tweaks or updates.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this blog post, I’m going to talk about how to evaluate those annual appeals before you publish them so you know you’re sending out the best possible ask. . Once you’re ready to look at your appeal again, you should evaluate it by asking the five questions below. I stick by them as a place to begin.

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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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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. It is tempting to think of this step as only doing a survey to answer the questions, “Did the workshop accomplish its objectives? Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Note from Beth: How often have those of worked in nonprofits asked the question or been asked the question by funders, “What’s the impact?” ” And that’s a difficult question to answer – whether it is your social or network strategy or a work of art.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Beth Kanter tweeted about an article by Gale Berkowitz relating to evaluation, which I found really fascinating – it is a must read. to evaluation for program improvement (“What did we learn that can help us make the program better?”). But it should be. But it should be. I’ve talked about this before.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Beth Kanter tweeted about an article by Gale Berkowitz relating to evaluation, which I found really fascinating – it is a must read. to evaluation for program improvement (“What did we learn that can help us make the program better?”). Ask clients at the end of the project a set of questions about the process and the result.

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Evaluation Learning Organization Lesson 157

AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. But before you start randomly lobbing questions at participants, we have a few tips that will help you improve the process.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2024

This begs the question: What should community college completion look like, and what measures of attainment equate to success in this higher education sector? An expanded overview of two-year diploma acquisition at three years and beyond increases traditional completion rates, but only minimally.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How will you measure volunteer impact in 2024? Here are some questions that can help you measure volunteer impact: Did you have enough qualified and engaged volunteers? Evaluate which opportunities you notice the most volunteer activity in, and consider why. But do you really know the true impact of your volunteers?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This was a considerable commitment, but many in the sector saw a need to measure the impact and effectiveness of such funding—specifically, whether the funds were going to nonprofits led by communities of color or to more traditional, white-led institutions. The best way to answer these questions is to measure and analyze consistent data.

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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. Factoring in the nonprofit organization’s size, capacity, and budget – making sure that the demand for data and evaluation is commensurate.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Case Management Tools Measure impact A unified solution to help you collect actionable program data, develop comprehensive reports, and share how you’re impacting your community. How does your solution measure impact? to track and measure the impact of your programs.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

Good questions to ask your team: What kinds of partners have we retained/lost over the last 3+ years? During the discussion, use the following business principles to assist in your evaluation: Churn Rate: Churn rate in its broadest sense is a measure of the number of customers moving out of a collective group over a period of time.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Her question stayed with me for a long time. Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. Qualitative yet empirically-based impact evaluation bridges the gap left by other evaluative methods providing the context of mission fulfillment for a nonprofit organization.

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Nucleus

OCTOBER 1, 2020

It measures activity for courses such as popularity, revenue trends, and geography of participants. It can also measure the success of related product sales such as e-book, video recordings, and exams. This information can provide the answer to some interesting questions such as: Who is my most popular or successful instructor?

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2023

In September 2022 (and thanks to support from our Innovation Fund, which you can learn more about in Candid CEO Ann Mei Chang’s open grant report to MacKenzie Scott ), we decided to dive into creating short-form videos for social media to evaluate the potential benefits. Have questions or obstacles you’re facing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Other areas include: communications, executive transition, evaluation/learning, networking/convening, and professional development. But, like anything else, to improve results, you need to measure it. My colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director. My colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 4, 2022

This begs the question, “ should you continue to host hybrid or virtual events in the post-pandemic world? ” For example, you may have wanted to ask questions like: “What if we hosted our event for free?”. Consider both hard and hidden costs when evaluating your events. What if we offer an online-only experience?”.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. This person will take the helm on laying out tasks in a sequence, informing other staff of their roles and assignments, and providing assistance to people as they complete their parts of the evaluation.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. But before you start randomly lobbing questions at participants, we have a few tips that will help you improve the process.

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Survey Virtual Question Sponsor 59

NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post.

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See3

JULY 1, 2010

Now everyone is asking us how to measure video Return on Investment (ROI). It used to be that everyone was asking us for a “viral” video. Video ROI is a topic we think a lot about at See3 and, unfortunately, there isn’t a simple answer or one that fits every organization. Generally, we [.].

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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. The Board should also be involved in planning for accountability and evaluation of the strategic plan once it’s implemented.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. Soft skills are typically shown through previous experience and hard skills can be measured through technical assessments. Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Europe and Latin America. Report Out.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. Soft skills are typically shown through previous experience and hard skills can be measured through technical assessments. Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria.

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Strategy Interview Skills Retention 52

Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. Measurable – How much? Only add criteria which are clearly measurable, with the measurement determined in advance (e.g., “no

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VQ Strategies

JUNE 4, 2022

Addressing those gaps can help not only the volunteer in question, but others as well. Yet, a PIP is should not be used as a standard training assessment, nor should it be used for regular evaluations. For standard evaluations or leadership development, other tools are useful—such as VQ’s Individual Volunteer Plan (IVP).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

To find the right product for your needs, the best place to begin is with requirements to help you evaluate alternatives. A written list of requirements is the starting point for evaluating accounting software options. You may want to use a spreadsheet to track how various products stack up in your evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2014

This question inspired Kopernik to create the ‘impact tracker technologies’ catalog in online and print forms. Data ICT program evaluation Program' What if nonprofits and social enterprises had an affordable way to report real-time, large-scale data on their social impact?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Here are some questions to ask yourself: How long does it take for your grantees to fill out your application? Do you use it to inform your decisions, evaluate your outcomes, or improve your practices? Does it ask for information that helps you measure your progress, evaluate your impact, or learn from your failures?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Whether the initiative is purchasing smart phones for staff or replacing your accounting system, measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) should be a key aspect of your decision. While "measuring ROI" may seem like a daunting task, it can be broken down into a few simple steps which are feasible for projects of all sizes.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Over the past several years, I’ve met with countless people at a wide variety of organizations to connect on outcomes measurement , and I tend to hear similar questions and qualms about this still-new area. “ There is a groundswell of interest in outcomes measurement and a desire to get it right across the sector.

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