Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2022

Knowing what not to measure can be as important as measuring at all. In the early stages, we investigate meaningful measurement. Often, our mission-driven partners are swimming in data, but need support to create systems that analyze and provide meaningful direction from that data. What the data and analytics team does.

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Analytics Team Data Skills 66

Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Venture2Impact (V2I) — a nonprofit organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — had a business model that was entirely based on global travel. We began by working on an alignment process called “ V2MOM ”, which stands for: Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, and Measures.

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Philanthropy Impact Support Gambia 98

CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

I’m referring to ChatGPT , a revolutionary language model developed by OpenAI that’s changing the game in every industry. It’s the second chatbot to ever pass the Turing Test , the current standard for measuring sophisticated AI models. Grant Proposal And that’s not all. Well, there’s a solution.

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Language Generation Nonprofit Social Media 94

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Lately I have seen some discussion groups, listservs, and blogs on when to create a proposal in the Prospect Module of Raiser’s Edge® or for that matter in any fundraising legacy system. The timing or stage at which you create a proposal is truly up to each nonprofit organization. Identification. Assignment. 4 to 6 weeks).

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Proposal Module Time Metrics 32

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Set criteria for contacts, proposals, planning, and forecasting. Be clear in how you measure job performance so everyone on your team understands their duties and the expectations around their role. Measure the most important goals that lead to results. Clarify roles and responsibilities.

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Develop Management Gift Proposal 74

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

I had the opportunity to speak with both Gallucci and Roy about this unique funder collaborative and more specifically about how the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education would measure the impact of their investments. This is where philanthropy comes in.

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Education Philanthropy Africa Foundation 164

sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

If that funder’s application includes lots of jargon or technical phrases such as, “Tell us about your Theory of Change,” or, “What is your program’s Logic Model?” Critical factors that impact decision making can be technical, such as was the proposal or report submitted on time, or did they include the attachments.

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Question Application Reflection Philanthropy 83

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

Nonprofits are reimagining funding models and will have to think innovatively to ensure their mission continues. Why pursue a social enterprise model? There are seven steps in Larson’s proposed venture development process that takes six months-year, and at least 200 hours of work to complete, but ensures a business plan result.

Stream 52

Stream Adopt Arizona Create 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. High-Level Requirements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

” His model moved to real time planning, although there is some tension between having a strategy and strategic plan. ”But something was missing, strategic plans were not enough, especially with so many broken nonprofit models. How will they measure success? Risk (and Risk Mitigation): What are the risks?

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Review Business Nonprofit Measure 106

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The solution has built-in custom predictive modeling, including Expected Value Index (EVI) and Probability to Donate Index (PDI) models that are built from scratch for your specific organization. You can also measure your team’s actions as a whole against those of other major gift teams to see if you’re aligned with the competition.

Blackbaud 52

Blackbaud Guide Management Fundraising 52

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 14, 2022

For your website design consultant, make sure to research each candidate’s services and business model. Once you’ve created your initial list, research the following for each candidate: Price model. Develop a request for proposal. After you receive a response from each consultant, begin reviewing their proposals.

Consultant 52

Consultant Web Proposal Nonprofit 52

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

There is a saying among fundraising professionals that proposal writing is both an art and a science. Grant seekers must find ways for their proposals to stand out among the rest. It is not always enough for an organization to write an amazing grant proposal.

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Grant Effective Tips Proposal 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

Will is also does a lot of work with video – so when he proposed that we incorporate video interviews as part of the session, I was thrilled. While it is hard to measure actual attention spans, there is research that people pay closest attention during the first 10-18 minutes of lecture – and then their minds wander.

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Content Brain Technique Lecture 97

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2019

At Common Impact, we’ve identified three keys that will help you confidently structure a pro bono project, identify organizational challenges your potential partner could help solve, and propose a skills-based volunteer engagement that meets your nonprofit’s needs and supports the interest of the volunteers.

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Skills Model Nonprofit Volunteer 31

NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We are proposing a new entity that would work iteratively over time to fulfill four main purposes: 1. Provide assessment tools that measure the current effectiveness of security controls and identify areas that are in need of enhancements according to a risk management framework 3. What is Nonprofit InfoSec?

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Ideas NPO NTEN Government 75

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? ” I know I speak fast.

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Report Measure Impact Process 80

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Robust CSR software helps alleviate the struggles of managing your company’s philanthropic initiatives and measuring impact, so you can focus on driving employee participation and making bigger waves with your efforts. They track employee participation and measure the impact of these programs.

Software 52

Software Business Guide Companies 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

Note From Beth: Last month, I did a webinar for the SalesForce Foundation on measuring social media. While working at this nonprofit, I learned about Salesforce Foundation and their philanthropic model that allowed us to receive 10 free licenses, the ball started rolling. He agreed to write this guest post on the topic.

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Relationship Donor Track Gift 114

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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Guam Conservancy Software Help 124

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. I’m measuring this entire effort by how it much it does to change this sorry state of affairs, in both the short and long term.

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Accessibility Global Copyright Law 133

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Return on Investment (ROI) was created in the 1920s as a financial measure developed by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to make General Motors manageable. What it also illustrates is that, originally, ROI was a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. There's an entire book devoted to the topic: Nonprofit ROI.

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ROI Social Media Media Measure 74

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Without an objective in mind or ways to measure progress, employees can feel less driven. Peer-to-peer mentorship can help new team members acclimate to the organization faster and have a role model in a similar role to them. Unclear expectations, performance metrics, and goals. Lack of inclusivity and openness. Mentorship programs.

Ideas 52

Ideas Practice Leadership Roles 52

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Looking at overhead alone is a poor way to measure a nonprofit organization’s overall performance (Letter to the Donors of America, 2014). This is an outdated model that limits the impact and diversity of the work in the nonprofit sector. Be upfront about the funds it will take to implement or run a program.

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Build Arizona America Iowa 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

He is suggesting two metrics for museums (which are also recommended by the others talking about this topic in other disciplines): In our paper Jim and I avoided site traffic and instead proposed that two better measures of success for museum blogs were citations/linkbacks and user comments. To measure Citations I use Technorati rank.

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Metrics Museum Technorati Influence 50

Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2018

Progress is incremental, costs are high and returns on investment are measured in percentage points. Unique staffing models are emerging. Unique Staffing Models. That’s the equivalent of one person working on high touch relationship building that includes face to face meetings and personalized proposals.”.

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Gift Team Marketing Donor 28

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Having a framework is the magic wand to writing a successful grant proposal. Step #1) G – Get the FOA/RFP/NOFA The first step in developing a grant template with the GRANTS formula is to G et the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) or Request of Proposal (RFP) or NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability): i.e. the grant instructions.

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Grant Award Project Proposal 95

fusionSpan

MAY 10, 2024

With four key focus areas – fundraising, programs management, grant management, and outcomes measurement – this powerful platform provides a seamless experience for teams across the organization. Grantmaking Capability is an Add-On For grantmaking organizations, Nonprofit Cloud simplifies the complexities of the grant lifecycle.

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License Model Grant Integration 59

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2019

Ann notes that while the common measures of success for the sector – the number of people reached or dollars raised – are great indicators of short-term success, they do not necessarily translate into long-term impact and change. I think that social good organizations face a lot of pressure to do exactly the opposite of this.

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Guide Model Government Press 22

Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Chat-GPT is a generative large language model.

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FAQ Language Model Nonprofit 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below).

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Comment Artist Social Media Hype 97

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. . User fees -- necessary if you ever wished to achieve sustainability -- were always a struggle, as they often shut the desired audience out.

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Mobile North America Mali Cameroon 62

Forum One

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Beyond simple brainstorming, we need to intentionally create the space for all team members to act on their ideas in a productive, measurable way. Clarifying decision rights, e.g., who has the authority to greenlight an experiment or implement a proposed change? This is the only way our teams know they can try new things.

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Hints Structure Proposal Challenge 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Bloomerang

APRIL 19, 2021

And you will not ask them to do research, write grant proposals, coordinate events or write annual appeals; otherwise, they’ll have even less time. . Generally you’ll do this through your own research, by asking your board and closest donors what they know, and/or by purchasing donor analytics or predictive modeling. No cold calls.

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Donor Gift Retention Director 126

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning. What are the technologies that support community-driven engagement and models of working? Principles.

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Library Model Adopt Community 241

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Click any link above to see the video from the initial pitch and final report from each group.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32