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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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. So, that means I need the right database and technology to prove the work and results." How does your solution measure impact?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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VQ Strategies

JUNE 4, 2022

In that case, your PIP may then result in termination or some other [position] change like transfer or demotion. 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.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Tools like Screaming Frog can be used to crawl your current site and download the results onto a spreadsheet where each piece of content can be assessed. It can also be used to measure progress and keep the planning team focused. Do they have budget or timeline questions that could help them better prepare a bid for you?

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to SureImpact’s Primer on Nonprofit Impact Measurement , impact is “the quantifiable difference an organization makes … the collective effects (intended and unintended) of a nonprofit’s work on the communities it serves.” In this guide, we’ll answer the most frequently asked questions about nonprofit impact metrics, including: .

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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 four key questions are: What data to collect?

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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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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.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Good preparation up front helps to ensure good results. 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? Evaluation matrix . Interview questions.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Online support: Add AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants to your website to answer frequently asked questions, process donations, and provide donors with round-the-clock support. To mitigate this, work as a group to evaluate AI outputs across different demographic groups and address disparities.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. Once you know the benchmarks, you can compare your data to them and evaluate how successful your efforts are. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . Same as above.

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sgEngage

JUNE 12, 2023

Take advantage of searching wildcards that help expand the possible results in your search. Evaluate users’ security access Each user of a system is provided with a username, a password, and the exact access rights they need to accomplish their daily tasks – at least, that’s what we hope! Have you searched in at least 3 ways?

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

i We anticipate a steady increase in organizations sharing demographic information as a result of our recently launched Demographics via Candid campaign. For definitions of leader levels and the full list of demographic survey questions and response options, see How to collect and share demographic data.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent).

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I decided to conduct two studies with my colleagues to get to answer this question. The results were dramatic, and they caused me to re-think how nonprofit mission statements relate to fundraising effectiveness. Unexpectedly, we found that the results depended on an organization’s size. For our first project,?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 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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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

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. Programs and Services: Description of the nonprofit’s activities and how they align with its mission.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

To reiterate, here are answers to a few common questions before we outline the options available: Can I access my old UA data after July 1, 2024? As a result, you cannot migrate UA data to GA4. Metrics: Select quantitative measurements like Pageviews, New Users, or Conversions. Can I migrate data or reports from UA to GA4?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2017

Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. Measurement Plan: Has an appropriate plan been laid out to monitor and measure the program outcomes ?

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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. Their intention was to create a guide for nonprofit leaders who wanted to ensure that their organizations provided high quality, sustainable results for the people or causes they served. How small is small?

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Bloomerang

MAY 1, 2023

How do you measure success in a given year? Without a written fundraising plan no one is accountable, progress from year to year cannot be evaluated, and no measurable goals for the future can be set. It starts with a plan, but you also need a culture that supports fundraising.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

Here are 13 tips for writing a grant proposal: Keep the narrative on how the world or community will be different as a result of the work. Answer the question “Why now?” Note the methodology and what research your measurement assumptions are based on. Check out our upcoming course on program evaluation.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Because traditionally, impact measurement has been performed by siloed teams, the burden on them to collect good evidence is huge. Though it can seem like a big barrier to set up an impact measurement system — one for which you might not have the time, the staff, or the funding — impact management is something you can do at any level.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

Ask questions like: Have donors responded better to email over direct mail? The answers to these questions don’t necessarily mean you don’t promote your campaign on the weaker channels at all, but that you should put more effort into the ones that work best. Who will respond to social media and email questions from supporters?

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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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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Each person on your team needs an education plan that becomes part of their ongoing performance evaluation, including expectations of work changes and improvement after their training. Your training plan needs to have three basic elements, as described in the following questions: What is the problem or issue that’s currently facing your team?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. Measurement springs from many different motivations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Tweet questions to me at @annkemery , comment on Excel for Evaluation to request tutorials, or email me to request in-person training.

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