The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

In the context of this column, growth is not about structured acquisition of new knowledge or skills but focused on learning to apply knowledge in unexpected ways and stretching boundaries of comfort. Cultivate curiosity and resolve to stay informed about trends impacting your work. What Is Growth?

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Initiatives that impact a broad audience or community Outcomes that deliver strategic goals and objectives for all participants. With this kind of structure, there are limited sources of revenue. Study your data and understand your audiences to correctly identify where you could add impact. Turn your perspective outward.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2017

One of the most exciting parts of 2017 for me so far has been to see how many nonprofit organizations and foundations are becoming more and more passionate about outcomes measurement. And this got me thinking, how can we ensure that organizations don’t feel like they’re facing this outcomes measurement journey alone?

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

At their core, advisory committees are groups of individuals who are stakeholders in your nonprofit’s work and who want to play a role in ensuring you achieve maximum impact. At the end of the day, an inclusive advisory committee is critical for meaningful impact and reach across your larger community. Create structure.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 27, 2024

Change organizational culture to impact the bottom line Know thyself. This can include incentive structures, remembering that women’s philanthropy is part of thinking more inclusively in programming, speakers, professional development, and etc.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

The nature of capital campaign committee structures. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start. Confirm that everyone is on the same page by restating the meeting’s purpose, expected outcomes, agenda items, and the roles that individuals will play (such as facilitator or note-taker).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

What criteria should nonprofits consider before accepting a social impact investment? Recent trends in philanthropic giving indicate that the new generation of donors has a high interest in ensuring that their donations generate outcomes (Flandez, 2012). This type of investment is increasing among women, Gen-Xers, and Millennials.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“Given the research-validated outcomes and demonstrated financial impact belonging offers, organizations should make cultivating belonging a personal leadership imperative across the world,” says Brad Deutser , author of the new book, Belonging Rules: Five Crucial Actions That Build Unity and Foster Performance. Listen without labels.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. A way that can be more fair, improve the institution of philanthropy, and deliver a shared and flexible understanding of impact.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Nonprofits collect and generate vast amounts of data, ranging from individual donors’ contact information to program outcomes, but they often struggle with organizing and utilizing the information effectively. This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits. Monitor program impact.

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2023

Who you talk to and how you structure your research has a significant impact on the findings you gather and insights you can take action on. Your museum may even be planning some audience research in the near future. What does it mean to conduct this research in an inclusive way?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Structural change – this include teams, departments, and job structure. It is important to get your team on the same page, create a strategy for execution, and monitor/measure the progress, outcomes, and result of the change. In this phase, you will define what success, impact, and approach to the change looks like.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

and the Rockefeller Foundation, titled: " A New Tool for Scaling Impact: How Social Impact Bonds Can Mobilize Private Capital to Advance Social Good." One such model is the Social Impact Bond (SIB). Intermediary-funded nonprofit organizations will produce improved outcomes that reduce the need for safety-net services.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In a culture that supports innovation, everyone feels encouraged and confident to brainstorm, introduce new ideas, ask questions, and start conversations in order to identify opportunities for enhanced impact. Ultimately, you will be able to strengthen the impact your mission has on the people and communities you serve.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

That experience has informed tremendously how we structure what we do now — you can’t disenfranchise people from the process by just giving them orders." Whenever I have had a bad customer experience, I wonder how the outcome could have been positive rather than negative. we promised this really cool idea to the client.”

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

BONUS TIP: If you identify specific changes you should make, try making just one or two at a time to get an accurate idea of their impact. For results that were higher or lower than your goals, what factors do you think impacted those outcomes? Evaluate post-campaign data. If so, what might have changed? Your messaging?

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

Clear goals and a detailed timeline will give the necessary direction and structure to your advocacy campaign. Overall, consider the intended outcome of your advocacy efforts and all the steps needed to achieve that outcome. As you tailor each one, you’ll need to consider how any changes will impact the other.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 9, 2018

Systematic evaluation can positively impact the organization by creating more structure, providing results for adaptability, increasing volunteer retention and improving staff-volunteer relationships. It is a useful tool that can define whether the program is meeting expectations, outcomes and goals.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

This skill can be actively honed and developed in three parts: A model to give feedback on how they are impacted by behaviors, the clarity to ask for the change in behavior they need to see, and the capacity to hear and receive feedback as a gift and not an indictment. Conflict management is also a must-have skill.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2022

By infusing our social impact work with empathy and experimentation, grantmakers can create a stronger shared value in our collaborative work. While it was a scary time in early 2020, it was also an exciting time to be in social impact because we saw the change that was possible. Collaboration in a Crisis.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

As nonprofit professionals, we all want to impact the greatest possible number with our work. What type of impact is the program making, and is it one that can be most effectively increased by scaling up this individual program? Organizations should examine their own structure and capacity. Who is involved?

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

When we gauge an individual’s or team’s performance based on the volume of their output rather than the quality of their outcomes, we’re commodifying something that was never meant to be solid and graspable: creative thinking. It’s the drive to create more impact.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. Look for ways to simplify your language and your structure to make your question easier to read and answer. As a grantmaker, questions are your tools. But are you asking the right questions? Can this question be simplified?

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Even the most comprehensive AMS can fail to make the right impact if you don’t get executive alignment and buy-in across your organization. You also need one who can bridge the gap between the system and the business outcomes it has to achieve, and design a solution that leaves nothing on the table.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible, harmful way to measure nonprofit effectiveness. Survey: Nonprofits Struggle with Demonstrating Outcomes. ” Opening Up Grants Processes Leads to More Equity’ After Slamming the Doors on Too Many Grantees, a New Approach Improved Our Foundation’s Impact. Evaluating a Culture.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 14, 2023

A project manager’s objective is to navigate each of these moving parts and steer the project toward its desired outcome. They identify risks, assess their potential impact, and develop strategies to mitigate them before and during a project. Risk Mitigation What does a project manager do to mitigate risk?

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A data warehouse is a structured database that supports reporting, segmenting, and analytics needs. The data warehouse is structured to support queries and reporting for your core key performance indicators (KPIs) and analytics use cases. The Role of a Data Warehouse.

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Forum One

APRIL 6, 2023

These are all the systems, policies, and structures that influence the customer journey. A: Our biggest advice to get buy-in from your teams is to help them understand that service design has an impact. Back-stage: The back-stage includes all the pieces that the customer doesn’t directly see or interact with.

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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. You can provide a few different metrics to show the program’s impact to your board.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

Over the past year and a half, the rapid improvement of generative AI has created a wealth of new opportunities to deliver impact in the digital space. This includes respecting human dignity, privacy, and rights, and ensuring fairness and justice in AI outcomes.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

The same historical and cultural structures that have held back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in so many aspects of our lives are also mirrored in much of the nonprofit sector. This can include incentive structures, remembering DEI in programming, speakers, professional development, etc. By: Yolanda F.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Unfortunately, “thinking about it” has little applied impact. For many it’s simply reading and writing, which is the way most of our schools are structured. You can get some of the same impact from embellishing a digital document with colors, shapes, arrows and other personal flairs. We have to get hands on for change to happen.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

When making a technology change, change management is a process of applying a structured approach to transition from the old system to the new system. Create a statement that paints a picture of a future state — the goal or outcome of the project. The techniques help to grease the wheels of any organizational change. A “Why” Statement.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For example, consider you’re a Spanish-speaking customer from a neighborhood that as of recently is facing a housing crisis due to COVID-impacted job losses. Unfortunately, this is a common dilemma for minority groups and various ethnic populations. Relevancy is the quality or state of being closely connected or appropriate.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

My journey with Echoing Green began back in 2015 when I led the Black Male Achievement Fellowship (BMA) program – the world’s first Fellowship for social entrepreneurs improving the life outcomes for Black men and boys in the U.S. . Despite this outsized impact, Toyin has yet to secure adequate funding to support and scale TLNYC.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2018

A well-designed modeling project can do more to provide structure and direction to a fundraising program than can wealth screening alone. You reduce your uncertainty about the outcome of your fundraising by giving your best attention to the highest scoring people. Sometimes you must make choices. To preface, I am not a statistician.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 10, 2016

The remedy though is a lengthy and exhaustive processing of mission, purpose, vision, establishing of roles, sharing of strengths and weaknesses, preparation for power imbalances and conflicts, structure and governance, and planning. This is the “train” on the tracks. This is the fuel for the train. Take the risk.

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