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3 Effective Tools for (Re)Branding Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The pandemic has caused many mission-driven organizations to re-evaluate their mission, reconsider their strategic plan to accomplish it, and then engage donors and advocates from this new position. Below is a sampling of important questions to ask. How to Evaluate the Options Objectively.

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

NTEN

Amy Sample Ward. "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.

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Making meaning of Candid’s free demographic data set 

Candid

The data set is a goldmine for researchers and evaluators interested in better understanding the demographics of the nonprofit sector. Data is only useful if people understand how to look at and interpret it. It also offers suggestions on when researchers and evaluators may want to choose one method to access the data over the other.

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Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector 

Candid

Ease of access means that with more people using these systems, the potential impact of unethical use grows. For example, when presented with a grant description describing programs serving low-income populations, the system would often also predict that the grant was serving “People of African Descent.”

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New on SSIR: Should Nonprofits Act Like Businesses or People?

Amy Sample Ward

It’s a practitioner’s guide for planning, implementing, and evaluating strategies that engage constituents across many channels, wherever they may be, and how we as organizations need to structure our work to deliver that experience.

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How Should Funders Evaluate Charities?

Care2

This is a topic that Amy Sample Ward and I also discuss in our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere in the chapter on Disrupting the Nonprofit Sector. When I’m evaluating a charity for a client who is looking to make a significant donation to a nonprofit, I measure 4 key things: 1. But are they?

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The Ultimate Guide to Accounting Software for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

However, nonprofits are guided by a mission- like providing education in under-served areas, supporting research to find cures to diseases, creating community among a specific group of people, and more. To find the right product for your needs, the best place to begin is with requirements to help you evaluate alternatives.

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