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NTEN embraces a 4-day week

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NTEN has had an increasingly distributed team and a flexible work schedule throughout our 23 years as an organization. Working at NTEN is just one aspect. We are humans first and employees of NTEN later. It even came up in yearly evaluations and manager check-ins. Practically, we are a Slack-based organization.

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Evaluating Evaluation: Behind the scenes of NTEN's new worksheets

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"Check your assumptions at the meeting room door" and other lessons learned from NTEN's meta-evaluation process. Evaluating our evaluation. And in evaluating our evaluation process, we found that it was the people and not the data that needed to be addressed further. Amy Sample Ward.

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Strategies for Program Evaluation in the 21st Century

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The only way to know is to roll up our sleeves and evaluate. This article highlights a technology-based program evaluation strategy, using research from Idealware’s new report, Understanding Software for Program Evaluation. idealware Infrastructure Kyle Henri Andrei Leadership nptech nten program evaluation Strategy Program'

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! There are two different methods to evaluate your training. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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Are You an "Accidental Evaluator?"

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Director of Evaluation. Regardless of your personal or organization’s viewpoint on the use of data, you, like many nonprofit professionals, may be asked to serve as an “accidental evaluator:” you may not be trained in evaluation, but you are asked to do it anyway as part of your job. Data evaluation measuring impact Program'

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January 2022 equity update to the community

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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. Staff, board, and volunteers. 2021 review highlights. 2022 focus. 2021 review highlights.

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NTEN Research Committee: Want to join?

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We''re looking for individuals interested in serving in a volunteer position with NTEN on the Research Committee. At NTEN, it is incredibly important to us that the community we serve is an active part of our work. real world examples, and establish benchmarks for evaluation. committee community nptech nten research'

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