sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Fast forward to today….

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Since then, Candid has been evaluating the way we identify this type of giving, both going forward and looking back over the last decade. We began tracking grants and pledges based on press releases and public announcements to tell a real-time story. . underlying systems and structures that?generate generate and?reinforce

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sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

It tells your organization’s story, conveys your values, and shares the importance of your mission. Because of the many benefits of accessibility, it’s worthwhile to evaluate your nonprofit’s website against the official standards for nonprofit website accessibility. It should generally be structured the same as alternative text.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Reach out to LYBUNT donors in November and December – a good story can always prompt someone to give again! 3 Tell Stories that Make You Stand Out from the Crowd In episode 3 of “Year-End in July,” guests Dom Spinosa, Alyssa Boger, and copywriting expert Cathe Hoerth discuss the power of storytelling in fundraising.

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Candid

MARCH 9, 2022

Through the resources at TLCPL, customers can find and evaluate grant funders, download a mailing list of constituents for no cost, perform basic research on prospective donors, draft a strategic plan, and learn about trends across the nonprofit sector. Candid: Can you provide any examples of success stories from your work?

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. Organizations continually operate in “not enough” mode and are expected to try to make the best of their limited resources and create (and evaluate) the most impact possible. One story I encountered on my journey will forever make me sick to my stomach.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent).

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Bloomerang

APRIL 14, 2021

The growth of any nonprofit requires the constant evaluation of where their untapped potential resources lie. . Here are some ways you can reward your volunteers’ efforts : Create a structure of reward for volunteers. A famous demonstration of this in action concerns McDonald’s. Regular thank you cards. A box of chocolates.

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Skills Volunteer Tips Nonprofit 138

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s like trying to work out the story at the heart of the findings. Uncovering a narrative structure gives sign posts to some of the broader conclusions. Getting a few eyes on the data will help evaluate your own findings. Looking for a narrative can be a great way to break through the information.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Evaluate your progress and determine whether you are on track to meet your targets. Optimize existing strategies: Fine-tune your existing fundraising strategies by incorporating lessons learned from your evaluation. Develop a story that highlights your nonprofit’s impact and the importance of ongoing support from donors.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Take a look and cast your vote so that we can share some pretty spectacular and helpful insight and stories with you next April! Who you speak to and how you structure your research has a big impact on the findings you gather and insights you can take action on. What does it mean to conduct this research in an inclusive way?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Ng : It’s critical to know how to tell your story—and to position yourself as someone who (1) has done a similar job before, (2) will help the company achieve its goals, and, therefore, (3) are low-risk. Why is it important to know how to tell your story? What metrics will you be evaluated against? Leave nothing ambiguous.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Ng : It’s critical to know how to tell your story—and to position yourself as someone who (1) has done a similar job before, (2) will help the company achieve its goals, and, therefore, (3) are low-risk. Why is it important to know how to tell your story? What metrics will you be evaluated against? Leave nothing ambiguous.

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Job Interview Articulate Problem 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Ng : It’s critical to know how to tell your story—and to position yourself as someone who (1) has done a similar job before, (2) will help the company achieve its goals, and, therefore, (3) are low-risk. Why is it important to know how to tell your story? What metrics will you be evaluated against? Leave nothing ambiguous.

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Job Interview Articulate Problem 52

CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2022

This can make or break your event so while you’re evaluating your options, definitely consider the ease of use for your staff and participants. If they wanted to, participants could edit the default text or add their own pictures and stories. You can also structure prizes as a raffle. Best Practice #2: Easy Registration.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. What is a good social media strategy for nonprofits? Transparency. Your donors want to know how their money is being used.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The story of that passion in action brings in the donations that pay for your programs and services, which have an impact and change lives. How will you evaluate your results and measure impact? You also need to build a structure that will enable you to bring in the money you need to operate. Build a solid foundation.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Organizational Overview: Background information on the nonprofit’s history, structure, and key personnel. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. Mission statement: Clear statement of the nonprofit’s purpose, future aspirations, and guiding principles.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Evaluate peer organizations to identify your peers’ strengths and weaknesses, compare them to yours, and find opportunities to differentiate your organization. Once you’ve gathered and interpreted these data points, use the audience profiles and market opportunities to structure early concepts for your direct mail campaign.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2021

For top executives looking to mentor future leaders and collaborate with people who share their goals, nonprofits offer a unique structure that often flattens the hierarchy. Her story was featured in ASU Now last spring. Change the metrics of success. Conclusion.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Surprises are few and opportunities are easily evaluated and leveraged. Passion, clarity, and confidence are key to telling your story. You must be able to tell your nonprofit’s story through numbers. When the leader isn’t a planner, the nonprofit loses a lot of time to disorganization and chaos. Crunching numbers.

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Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We’ll finish with 10 minutes to evaluate the brainstorming session, get clarity on points of agreement and disagreement, and discuss next steps. The facilitator can call on people individually or, when multiple voices chime in simultaneously, create a structured queue, saying for example, “Let’s hear from Amy, then Cynthia, and then Brad.”

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics. How do you evaluate your programs and services? Revisit your Story. What’s your organization’s story? Story – 350.org’s You have one.

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Campaign Design Impact Metrics 114

Cloud 4 Good

JULY 29, 2021

Many of the LCRM customers are evaluating whether they move from LCRM and Luminate Online at the same time or take a more phased approach. There are numerous solutions that don’t work with LCRM and mercurous that were designed for the NPSP account contact structure. Can we stay on Luminate Online with NPSP?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Note from Beth : In March, I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the GEO Conference (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) with Kathy Reich, Director, Organizational Effectiveness Program at the Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group, that helped OE analyze its “goldmine” of grantee data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The opening chapters include many stories about networks and collective action and pull out key themes and strategies. In addition to the stories, you’ll find additional resources related to each theme. Don’t use conventional evaluation criteria to assessing network impact. These themes include: 1.

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Network Report Empowerment Structure 104

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. We’ll go over how to evaluate your organization’s own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employee engagement strategies later on. Tech stack. Why is employee engagement important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Then, I have participants work in small groups, using a structured brainstorming process. Participants prioritized the ideas by combining and evaluating the cost/impact, boiling down to a couple of ideas to present to the whole group. Have staff share their origin stories, why passionate about nonprofit work.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources. Engage in research and evaluation activities that focus on the needs and challenges faced by underserved communities, and use the findings to inform program design and development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

The session was about transparency and conducting evaluations. One of the takeaways was that in order to pursue this type of learning, organizational culture was the key indicator to success. Peter’s post shares some ideas about cultivating a learning culture and while written for funders, these are applicable to nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Then, it’s how you evaluate and refine that message over time. Structure and Process are more about the delivery and maintenance of your content and your content team. The Structure quadrant answers how content will be organized to be findable, categorized, and personalized. So, how do you define your content strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. Here’s a few ideas, concepts, and insights from the book that resonated.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2011

When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics. How do you evaluate your programs and services? Revisit your Story. What's your organization's story? What do you measure every day, week, month, year? You have one.

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Campaign Design Impact Metrics 73

Forum One

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As this name suggests, an ESOP is a legal structure that allows employees to have a financial stake in the company they work for, receiving benefits of its success on an ongoing basis. Being a private company, that share price is set, not by the market, but by an outside evaluator on an annual basis. What is an ESOP?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

It’s a good time to evaluate where you may have gaps in your technology. Look at the following: (1) Does it have an intuitive navigation structure? (2) 2) Does it have design elements that tell a story with words and pictures? (3) to Paypal or an off-site website form) to do so.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Use a Consent Agenda A consent agenda gives you a way of structuring your meeting so that you can handle the routine things quickly, leaving more time for important conversations. One agenda item is mentioned, and that is Betty’s cue to break into lengthy stories and opinions, basically hijacking the conversation. Solution: Redirect.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Jara Dean-Coffey discussed impact, with a focus on how organizations should be evaluative , rather than simply doing evaluation. Evaluative thinking needs to be built into the foundation of both strategy and everyday operation, and means much more than deploying an annual survey. Impact: Be Rather Than Do.

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