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The enduring value of lessons learned

Candid

Issue Lab is where Candid collects, preserves, and shares research reports, whitepapers, evaluations, case studies, issue briefs, and more, published and/or funded by social sector organizations. Every published work in the collection is tagged to at least one of 35 issue areas. Looking to create a new funding strategy or program area?

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

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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How To: Evaluate AdWords Performance

NTEN

On the Google Grants team, we receive a lot of questions from grantees on how best to evaluate their AdWords performance. We put this article together to give guidance around monitoring and evaluating your Google Grants account using a few strategies we find valuable. We hope you do, too! . Let's get started. Quality Score.

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5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. Hildy Gottlieb’s Pollyanna Principles are a great place to start if you want to learn more about how you can evaluate and identify your organizational goals (and larger view) in a way to successfully design projects, programs and even partnerships for real impact.

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New on SSIR: Community Building in a Big Backyard

Amy Sample Ward

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can check it out and join the conversation there ; or read the repost below! Tags: community issues best practice community building gardening ssir. What would you add about cross-platform community building? Join me for a monthly online chat!

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Is Your Software Really 508 Compliant? Three Things You Should Know.

VisionLink

Instead of reviewing each of the many 508 standards, this article covers the three biggest misconceptions and myths concerning 508 compliance: Only federal agencies have to be 508 compliant. ALT tags for images). Fortunately, 508 compliance is a topic easily found and discussed ad nauseam across the Internet.

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