Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

As a corporate funder turned consultant, I've spent the last decade helping funders make the shift from philanthropy to social, or impact, investing. What Is Impact Investing? Impact investing means more than simply "doing good." 3 Reasons You're About to Be As Excited About Outcomes Measurement As I Am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Natalye also talks about the role of technology in facilitating and tracking the impact of volunteers, and how Points of Light and Blackbaud are collaborating to advance data, insights and measurement for volunteerism. The role of technology in facilitating volunteerism, tracking data and measuring impact.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

” Impact investors, social entrepreneurs, foundations, and global NPOs come together with the goal of furthering social, environmental, and economically sustainable solutions. Among this year’s many themes, I want to highlight two: (1) Impact Investing and (2) Measurement & Evaluation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time. All of these trends are interdependent, often reinforcing the others, so as I approach the end, I hope to synthesize them into some working hypotheses and best practices for social impact leverage."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. As she puts it: Taxonomies exist to classify and to clarify, but they also serve to guide and to goad. … So here’s a reenvisioning of this hierarchy as a taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Some are calling it impact investing. The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2021

Migrate your configuration : This includes content types, taxonomies, and module configuration, etc. The post A Guide to Preparing for Drupal 9 appeared first on Forum One | Turn Ideas Into Impact. Take stock of your content : Delete/archive anything you don’t need.

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2021

The internal benefit of uniform content creation has a major positive impact on your external audiences. The post Why You Need a Content Strategy appeared first on Forum One | Turn Ideas Into Impact. Your KPIs may differ depending on the content type, and your strategy can help you keep track of that.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2016

I had the opportunity to participate on the panel, “Monitoring & Impact Measurement. Our panel discussion highlighted the importance of strong cross-sector partnerships, impact measurement and outcomes reporting in developing a robust grantmaking strategy for the SDGs. The Key to Cross-Sector Partnerships. Key takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” The co-facilitator was Amy Hedrick who works in Product and Design Innovation at Intuit. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2016

As a corporate funder turned consultant, I’ve spent the last decade helping funders make the shift from philanthropy to social, or impact investing. What is impact investing? Impact investing means more than simply “doing good.” It means investing with purpose to achieve specific, measurable outcomes and impact.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2017

Based on years of biannual report analysis, I find that annual budget, mission focus, and service area, in that order, have the most impact on an organization's grantseeking experience. In our survey, we ask that participants identify their missions based on the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities classification system.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

To help plan your next steps, consider prioritizing based on: Business impact Resource requirements Reach Readiness/data maturity Budgeting Getting Started We’ve outlined how to create a data strategy using a lightweight framework. Choose a few to start with and build from there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations. One of my favorite metrics geeks, Jim Sterne , has very advice on " How To Measure Engagement On Twitter." His approach is not to select a metric that shows impact, but to pick the right metrics to help you improve what you're doing.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

I was particularly inspired by the case studies related to art and civic action (like Paint the Street ) and intrigued by the "implications" pop-outs asking questions about how the case studies might impact your own organization's practice. What do you get out of the report?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 21, 2016

As a result, their impact is accelerated exponentially. This aligns with our belief that we need a continued dialogue with foundation leaders to ensure efficient communication for collaboration and impact. Can we tie these results to a greater impact? We now need to see results for every initiative.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). Consider the answers, as well as your budget and human resources, and then determine what is required to support the network. Should you support their use of existing tools, or create a new space?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

What’s more, we’re going to see the paradigm shift directly impact the way we work in the social good space. Social good organizations (nonprofits, foundations, education institutions, etc.) The organizations and companies who come together to embrace them first are going to be on the leading edge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education. It isn't quite a taxonomy, but it does layout the tags according to key aspects of the project. Let look at the tagging standards for the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I was not able to find a taxonomy for social network analysis tools. View more Microsoft Word documents from David Armano. Also, I wonder how you can integrate some of the thinking for externals communications? The tools. So, I'm roughly dividing these into two categories: Low-Tech and High-Tech. Low-Tech Approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Blog is here ) There are some excellent questions raised about the impact of technology on the way people do their. socially and technically accessible in emerging knowledge societies?

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Though we will explain in greater detail below what this has meant and how we are addressing it, we first must acknowledge and own the impact. These categories build off of the extensive taxonomy Candid has developed over years—based on data from over 17 million grants—which we have jointly adapted to capture work related to human rights.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Incorporate 1-2 multimedia elements to enhance interest and impact. Prompt taxonomy : Classifying prompts into a hierarchical structure with categories and tags to capture relationships and usage patterns. Create an image prompt for these.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. This is a tough thing to measure, but it is really key in understanding your organization’s impact.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

If we exclude online giving to international relief organizations, which were substantially impacted by Haiti giving, the online index shows an increase of 2.6% Blackbaud used these organizations’ National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes as reported on their 990 tax returns for grouping purposes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

The article offers some clear explanations of taxonomies and folksonomies, but goes on to give many reasons why you should dislike folksonomies. Meanwhile, Net Neutrality legislative debates may have some impact for Second Life and other online games. And, for a quick summary of recent Second Life stats, see here.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Under Candid’s taxonomy , we track funds supporting “community college education,” which encompasses funding both to community colleges and to their foundations. One common strategy of local donors and alumni is awarding grants to specific programs at a college, which can have a significant impact. How does this impact funders?

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