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In conversation: using data and education to advance racial equity at MEASURE

Candid

On March 13, 2022, Meme Styles, president and founder of MEASURE , joined Candid CEO Ann Mei on the stage at SXSW for their talk: Using Data to Advance Racial Equity ( available to watch now on YouTube ). Candid's team reached out to Meme recently to learn more about the work MEASURE is doing in Austin, TX.

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Why You Should Measure Impact in Addition to Outcomes

Forum One

It can be difficult to measure the impact of your work, particularly when you are unclear about what impact means to your organization. To understand how outputs are different from impacts—and why you should measure impact in addition to outcomes—it is helpful to understand what goes into the process of achieving impact. Activities?

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Three Data-Informed Strategies for Better Member Engagement

Association Analytics

Most associations don’t have an easy way to measure member engagement across all their different systems and touch points. And even when measured, it can be tricky to know how to use engagement scores to improve member experience and operational results. They then promoted that content to unengaged members with similar profiles.

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Telling a compelling story: Communicating program impact in a grant proposal

Candid

How are you measuring progress? A narrative that illustrates your nonprofit’s program impact The logic model is a classic framework for illustrating a program’s impact. A narrative that illustrates your nonprofit’s program impact The logic model is a classic framework for illustrating a program’s impact.

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What Gets Measured Gets Better

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. The CWRF model has been adopted by nonprofits.

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RAG-Enhanced Conversational AI: A Comprehensive Guide

Forum One

The introduction of Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG, now allows AI applications to enhance the capabilities of machine learning models by integrating them with a retrieval component. They should function as intended, and there should be measures in place to prevent and mitigate harmful malfunctions or misuse.

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

Performance measurement (PM) informs strategic decisions. To truly move the needle towards ameliorating social challenges throughout the world, we must revisit the efficacy of what has been measured and how. Use performance measurements sensitive enough to detect gradual changes so that small scale initiatives can be informative.

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