Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace, which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Impact measurement — the process of measuring and communicating your nonprofit’s impact — can effectively convey the value and outcomes of your work to your stakeholders, which in return funds more impact. Measuring progress against targets increases efficiency. How does impact relate to both of these trends?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2015

If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace , which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 10, 2014

If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace, which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership.

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Skills Summary Leadership Evaluation 45

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

More and more funders are asking for this kind of information, but most of them still provide nothing (money or expertise) to make it possible to manage and measure performance. So how can you build a system to measure outcome indicators and focus on your mission, if there is no funding to do so? Keystone Accountability.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

In his blog post on evaluating fundraising programs, Measuring Success The Buffett Way , Jason McNeil asks What measures might Warren Buffett use to evaluate development effectiveness? She's trying to make the case for investing in Advancement Services at a college that seems to only want to invest in fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. Designers of these civic tech platforms and apps are already measuring results, such as the number of users, and are very familiar with tools like Google Analytics.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In summary. Plan for a way to manage change in order to effectively measure progress and stay on track. Your global digital ecosystem, personalization strategy, change management plan, and post-launch planning are all critical pieces to consider when planning for your next website redesign.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

With more than ten years of experience under our collective belts, the best practices for evaluating email marketing campaigns are well established, but nonprofits continue to underutilize ways to measure and evaluate the success of these campaigns. This is useful as a measure of the effectiveness of your subject line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It is also good to learn from experienced curators and how they hone their craft. Netsquared recently published this summary of tips from nonprofit content curators. Susan Kistler has an example with evaluation resources. Susan Kistler has curated this list on Evaluation. What are your questions about content curation?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2016

In the fall 2015 issue of npENGAGE Magazine , my colleague Annie Rhodes wrote about our extensive outreach to the market to discover how measuring outcomes and impact are becoming essential to the philanthropic sector. All foundations and their nonprofit partners can benefit from measuring, tracking and reporting on outcomes.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2014

Here’s the seminar’s summary: Budgets are the last phase of a longer strategic journey. This process also serves to establish a visible near-term and long-term roadmap to measure success. If you missed it, be sure to take some time to watch the presentation!

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

How will you measure success? Executive Summary. The Executive Summary is the first thing that any potential partner or supporter will read, and it introduces the mission and purpose of your nonprofit. Evaluation Plan. This can be a separate section, or evaluation methods can be added to various other sections.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Extra credit if you read the Our Museum evaluation (or its summary ) as well. The evaluation additionally called out some faulty assumptions in program design about leadership and staff continuity throughout the multi-year process. The financial austerity measures applied external pressure to the Our Museum institutions.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

what things need to be measured. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Measure all fundraising metrics. Use the data in your CRM to measure all metrics, including donation amounts, donation frequency, donor details, and more! . Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . Base this on your documented research, and follow it carefully! .

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 30, 2018

Here’s a quick list of key information you’ll need to include on your Form 990 that should help you with budgeting moving forward: A concise summary of your mission. Line up your expenses and take time to evaluate the unnecessary — or less necessary — ones for the coming year. How will you measure success? Statement of expenses.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Executive summary: The summary is a snapshot of your proposal. You can use this summary as a baseline for creating your nonprofit voice for the proposal, as well as use it to make first impressions when networking with potential funders. Pick a few key ways the funders can evaluate your program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured. " Productivity would be defined in the context of some sort of evaluation of the benefits of the technology - perhaps using a logic model. And both can be difficult to measure. t need to measure, it???s So it may hurt productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

Screencapture from Jonny Bentwood 's White Paper on measuring influence. The paper goes on to explain that measuring influence on blogs by number of subscribers and how many people linked to it isn't longer a credible metric because people are using a variety of different social media tools to connect with their audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. " The Giving Carnival: Edition 5 was about how to measure social impact. A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Nicole Lampe, Resource Media, blogged two summaries based on the ideas and discussion: The Future of Conservation: A Return to Our Roots. The next step in the process was for participants to evaluate some of the ideas using a 2×2 called the importance/difficulty grid. Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Measurable: It is measurable because it will serve 50 farmers and will increase irrigation by 25 percent each year for three years. Include the task description, role responsible, start date, completion date, evaluation that the activity is completed. will also reinforce more achievability).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. What do you think? And if you???re

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Neon CRM

MAY 17, 2023

While these benchmarks are a useful place to begin evaluating your email fundraising performance, they aren’t the be-all-end-all. Just use them to measure your success and find areas to improve. How to Set Your Own Email Fundraising Benchmarks Industry benchmarks are a helpful place to start evaluating your performance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. We have to do better than this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Google extracts the pagerank, a measure of how important a page is, from our (implicit) linking and clicking behavior. The4Cs Social Media Framework in Summary. Although I designed the 4Cs framework to explain how I see social media, I have also found it to be a useful tools to evaluate specific social media initiatives.

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Qgiv

MAY 16, 2022

Executive summary. The next section of your grant proposal will be an executive summary of your project. With your executive summary, you need to concisely explain the key points of your project. Once you’ve written an executive summary to introduce your project, it’s time to introduce your organization. Project budget.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2015

Some say it’s the wrong measure of a nonprofit organization’s success; others say it is the gold standard for measuring worthiness for support. There has been little consensus about the impact of focusing on overhead as a means of evaluating nonprofit organizations, either among nonprofit leadership or researchers.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Bloomerang’s membership tracking tools offer the following features: Giving Summaries with Engagement Level and Generosity Score. Evaluate the features of each platform, from its membership database and profiles to its reporting capabilities. With Bloomerang, you can track member and donor relationships using the same core system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As many of you know, I’ve just finished writing a book with measurement guru, KD Paine, called “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” that teaches nonprofits how to embrace the data and use it to improve decisions and get better results as a networked nonprofit. It’s a must read for data nerds. His answer: 1.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

CAF has coined the term “ philgorithms ” for algorithms of this kind.The report ends with a summary of high level trends that might impact civil society organizations, including a discussion on inequality, algorithmic bias and the future of work. 12 hosted by Data Analysts for Social Good features Peter York, an evaluation expert.

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Forj

AUGUST 30, 2017

This year, Greg Lasko, Manager of Planning and Evaluation at CHEST, and our Dr. Andy Hicken, will be presenting a poster describing how CHEST has developed a standardized scorecard evaluation for its physician education courses. Psychometric measures of evaluation reliability and pre-post comparison drawn from our reliability report.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

As we embark hundreds of years down the road from some of these grand musings and green field possibilities, it is important to look back and evaluate what we as humans have actually accomplished. In summary, the immediate future of the Learning Management Systems industry is full of innovation.

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eLearning Mobile eLearning Industry Training 66

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Friday, October 8, 2010 Discover Your Leader Grade If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace, which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The self-evaluation survey is free and its the first step in the program.

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