Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. Soft skills are typically shown through previous experience and hard skills can be measured through technical assessments. Conduct an initial interview with a predefined set of questions and criteria.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you’re achieving that key outcome for impact. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

But, like anything else, to improve results, you need to measure it. My colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director. They reviewed research from nearly 60 academic, think-tank, and thought leader sources published after 1990 and interviewed leading practitioners from both grant-makers and capacity building service providers.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an interview in the September 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Why is outcome measurement important, and how is an infographic like this going to help in that effort? Q: Tell us more about what you work on at The Knight Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. She graciously did this interview with me to share more of her knowledge. Europe and Latin America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2012

This week, KD Paine and I, did a whirlwind tour of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” book talks in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Many thanks to our generous hosts including the Foundation Center/SF, Zero Divide, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, TechSoup Global, and Stanford University. … Read More

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. Would this question be better asked in a follow-up interview or post-award communication? Creating a Meaningful and Measured Application Questions are powerful tools for grantmakers, but they need to be used wisely and well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What are the key results of this campaign ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

One of my goals for 2011 is to better track the amount of time I spend on social media posting, planning, etc, and measuring that against actual engagement, as measured by: donations (via special source codes) and engagement (comments, reTweets, etc). Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ? Please summarize your ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Shonali Burke, who we interviewed in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , let me know about an exciting project she is working on with the Center for Community Change that is hosting the 8th Annual Change Champion Awards (in DC) today (Sept. What exactly are the right metrics for measuring this transformation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

KD Paine and I had the pleasure of interviewing the Arlene McCrehan social media team at Goodwill for our soon to be launched book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Goodwill uses measurement and learning in its evolution into a networked nonprofit. How will you measure it? ” # 150jobs – ow.ly/dm4V4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

You can learn more about John and OpenAction in the interview below. In past startups I would use friends and family to measure early success. Tags: interview maps data openaction opensource philanthropy socialactions. In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The ROI for us is measured in lives saved more than just the money raised to do so. Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ? She also helps cultivate community on a number of our social sites including ours at ChatBigCats.com. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. Book Tour ? ?

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Nimble AMS

JULY 19, 2022

Decide if you plan on measuring employee engagement, satisfaction, motivation, or performance so you can have a clear indicator of success. Face-to-face interviews: This survey option is a great method for when anonymity isn’t needed. Before you design your survey, you’ll need to take a step back to think about the focus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The last thing we do is measure our market share in the social media space. Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ? We’re actually going through a new web analytics implementation right now – so starting in the spring our data is going to be a lot easier to interpret and report out. Book Tour ?. ? Book Tour Sponsors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

She set up a private Facebook Group to facilitate our support for the campaign. A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. What else did you measure and why?

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2023

The Song of Significance” tackles questions to reset how employees and supervisors view, approach, measure and define work. Special guests share new, focused, highly relevant interviews about the trends, best practices, and questions that matter most right now. What would change? And how would you change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

But how are you measuring along the ladder of engagement – from awareness to conversion to donor. Tell me about charity:water’s approach/philosophy to measurement? charity: water is a nimble and fast moving organization and our approach to measurement reflects this. Tell me about this year’s campaign? Obviously $.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

“As workplaces around the world face the challenges of an increasingly remote workforce perhaps forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic, it has never been more important to measure and expand wellbeing in organizations,” explain the book authors Jim Clifton and Jim Harter. This translates into big differences in productivity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2022

Quantify their answers — along with qualitative interviews and industry research — to inform your messaging to the public. Are any of these measurable? In many cases, you’ll have to employ a bit of “institutional psychology” to probe the hearts and minds that shape your organization. If so, please explain how.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement. Diversity Metrics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A present, all of our marketing and volunteer recruitment campaigns really rely on social media to spread the word and energize our audience and so we use tools built into the aforementioned interfaces to help us measure the effectiveness of a campaign. All the while, you’ve got to measure, track and re-adjust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Measurement Challenges.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2023

What to Look for in Your Modern CFO Here are the top six things to look for—and interview questions to ask—when hiring a modern CFO for your nonprofit. Interview Question: Explain how you handle revenue recognition for multi-year restricted grants.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Whether the initiative is purchasing smart phones for staff or replacing your accounting system, measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) should be a key aspect of your decision. While "measuring ROI" may seem like a daunting task, it can be broken down into a few simple steps which are feasible for projects of all sizes.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you're achieving that key outcome for impact. Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

With specific social media campaigns, it is easier to have specific goals and measure whether or not you met them with the time allotted. Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ?Book I am working to pitch hiring someone else, so I can better support the organization’s brand online. Please summarize your ROI. Book Tour?. ?Book

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Measurable – How much? Only add criteria which are clearly measurable, with the measurement determined in advance (e.g., “no Names would get added back in for the interview process. Interview questions. You’ll also want to develop your interview questions now, together with the criteria and evaluation matrix.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

It’s like that old adage from carpentry, “Measure Twice, Cut Once.”. Performing stakeholder interviews, alignment workshops, reviews of current workflows and data, explorations of goals, gaps and opportunities brings everyone impacted into the process. Two contracts, one discovery and one build: less risk and cost. It’s about people.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 30, 2013

How did your organization measure up? I do know a great research technique that you can do yourself to get some insight: User Interviews. Steve Portigal recently released an awesome book called Interviewing Users – How to Uncover Compelling Insights that will help guide this process for you. So, what gives?

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

About half of the 100+ consultants I’ve interviewed this year alone say they will skip an RFP if it doesn’t share an available budget—including one helps you make sure you’re capturing the attention of all the potential knowledge and partnership that’s out there! I’m putting this one near the top because I see it overlooked too often.

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Candid

MAY 9, 2023

The average Ivy League school received 178 times more funding than the average HBCU To understand the philanthropic funding disparities HBCUs face, we examined funding to Ivy League schools as a proxy measure of philanthropic funding capacity. It should be noted, however, that 2020 data collection is still ongoing.

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Nucleus

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In an interview on Oct. The gap between digital leaders and laggards is widening – back in 2019, we published a study that measured companies by technology breath, depth, leadership and culture. Think about what this means – the difference between being 20% in the cloud and 80% in the cloud. We are platforming global business.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2014

But what if taking the time to focus on other things, like measurement and new staff orientation, would provide better retention rates and a happier staff? The second interview in our nonprofit culture series focuses on the Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands. But we’re also a place where we support each other.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

Speaking of metrics, how do you measure your nonprofit site’s performance? Do you use analytics, surveys, testing, interviews? Having talented people in-house allows us to pivot and move quickly based on our metrics,” Melissa says. I’d love to hear your approaches for an upcoming article on this topic.

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