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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Outcomes are not just visions or goals. Outcome information and measurement are the not-for-profit equivalents of the for-profit industry's return on investment. Outcomes allow not-for-profits to report to their funders and stakeholders what changes they are making in a client's or community's condition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. Radio Bilingue.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Outcomes management is the journey your mission should travel in order to be useful to the world you wish to better. P erformance management is the discipline of making good decisions with data; it is the foundation for outcomes management. data culture Leadership outcomes management Strategy' Rem Hoffmann. Exponent Partners.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We’ve tallied the number of hours served, rooms painted, pounds of food packed, children tutored, or books donated and then done our best to connect that to a nonprofit’s tangible outcomes. How does the impact measurement framework work? What does this mean for companies?

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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

But you want to make sure those decisions deliver outcomes that support your goals. In today’s world, organizations simply cannot afford to invest their time and limited resources in initiatives that do not demonstrably deliver outcomes that support their goals. Most often, you’ll use at least one measurement.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

" It means investing with purpose to achieve specific, measurable outcomes and impact. In the impact investing model, when we give to a cause, we should see specific and measurable returns in the form of social change. 3 Reasons You're About to Be As Excited About Outcomes Measurement As I Am.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the best storytelling tips I can give you is to set yourself up for measurement success from the very beginning. It can be near impossible to measure the success of a story if you haven’t first thought about what your desired outcomes are and drivers of success. Begin with the End in Mind: What’s Your Desired Outcome?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Making outcome information readily available to donors can make the decision to donate easier. Those who donate to nonprofit organizations naturally want to feel their gifts will be used successfully in a way that will improve society or some part of it, like children, the sick, students, etc.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Over the past several years, I’ve met with countless people at a wide variety of organizations to connect on outcomes measurement , and I tend to hear similar questions and qualms about this still-new area. “ There is a groundswell of interest in outcomes measurement and a desire to get it right across the sector.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

You’re stuck using revenue growth as the primary measure of success when you could focus on impact.” Measure the Right Outcomes “In our case,” Garth noted, “we can measure statistics like do people have more confidence that their pets will be well cared for at the vet. The tiered structure is a trap I’d stay clear of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The Outcome of Our Outcomes – guest post by Victoria Vrana. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Measurement springs from many different motivations. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis? Are you required to measure?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The evidence on this is clear: if we impact their wellbeing, we get better health, social, education, and engagement outcomes. The post Using Music and Data to Measure Impact and Wellbeing appeared first on Salesforce.org. If you’re working in any of those spaces, wellbeing is what you should be interested in.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2024

Impact,” “results,” and “outcomes” all refer to evidence that your program is effective and will be used interchangeably here.) How are you measuring progress? Outputs: Outputs are different from outcomes ; they’re the immediate, direct products of your activities. Outcomes: Here is where you describe your program’s impact.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Case Management Tools Measure impact A unified solution to help you collect actionable program data, develop comprehensive reports, and share how you’re impacting your community. Learn more Stronger data, stronger outcomes "Here’s what I believe: do the work and the outcomes will show. How does your solution measure impact?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

It lets donors determine for themselves that their donation, involvement, and passion moved the needle and made a measurable contribution to the world. Receiving that small gift—along with annual updates on how “their” animal is doing—is measurable, touchable, huggable proof that an annual subscription is a big deal. 4) Give outcomes.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

And if you don’t measure your ROI, you’ll never know if you’re actually making money or if you’d be better off focusing on more lucrative and less time-consuming strategies. . Did you have a clear, measurable goal for throwing it? In order to accurately measure ROI, however, you need to set goals that you can measure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2013

I’ve been curating resources on nonprofit measurement over on Scoop.It, with eye towards collecting useful material related to social media and social impact measurement. Despite this, when it is times to do measurement, many feel that it is a daunting task. How can we improve our measurement practice?

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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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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Defining the desired outcome and what constitutes success in measurable terms helps stakeholders align their actions and priorities, ensuring that every effort is geared toward achieving this shared vision. The post Vision Before Strategy: A Nonprofit’s Guide to Defining Success appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2020

Many foundations would like to have a more defined measurement process around their grantmaking but aren’t sure where to start. Webinar: “Measuring for Success: The Good, The Helpful and the Impactful” Blackbaud Foundation Solutions Resource Hub. Listen Now: Resources: Veronica Dickson. Jessica Tudyk.

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Bonterra

APRIL 13, 2024

Build charitable partnerships for better funding outcomes Nonprofit network Discover nonprofits that align with your business objectives and build lasting partnerships. Measure impact according to your company’s specific needs with drill down and self-service dashboard builder capabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 6, 2010

The people attending all believe that we have to focus much more on conservation outcomes: are there more tigers? Measuring outcomes is difficult, measuring activities is easy. At the same time, we should be able to gather enough data to find out whether certain practices contribute to better outcomes.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ]. The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. Next you will want to select the outcomes that you want to examine and prioritize them.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2016

From there I dug in to learn as much as I could about outcomes measurement and results from consultants, think tanks and other leaders in the field. What did I learn about outcomes and measuring results in those early days? Outcomes are changes in the behavior of, or the situation for, the program participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” Despite the difficulty of working measurement in a generic way, the output from sessions was quite valuable. Elizabeth R.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2013

If each nonprofit organization is now creating their own theory of change, and their own outcome and impact measurements, how do we compare those to another nonprofit’s outcome and impact measures? Nell Edgington. Social Velocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

When I heard about Guidestar’s plans to measure high performance at scale, I invited Jacob Harold, CEO and fellow ambassador to share a guest post about it on my blog. GuideStar Platinum: Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale by Jacob Harold. And sometimes it can feel that measuring social change is even harder.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 13, 2013

If each nonprofit organization is now creating their own theory of change, and their own outcome and impact measurements, how do we compare those to another nonprofit’s outcome and impact measures? Nell Edgington. Social Velocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But it wasn’t until Active Voice brought on a full time evaluator that were we able to identify and actually measure the kind of shifts we think films can contribute to. This is now the core work of Active Voice, designing outcome-oriented strategies and implementing story-fueled, measurable campaigns. Measurement'

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

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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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Share your ideal outcome. Talking about your ideal outcome helps you and the reader better understand your goals and how you measure success if this project goes according to plan. Like your ideal outcome, outline the best version of how this process can look. Better outcomes begin with intentionality.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

It’s hard to ramp up the good work you do if you don’t know how to concretely define, measure and communicate your impact to supporters. When we keep in mind the true meaning of the impact, in all its forms, it helps us discover what’s important when measuring it. Measuring impact. goals, measure them!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2016

It means investing with purpose to achieve specific, measurable outcomes and impact. In the impact investing model, when we give to a cause, we should see specific and measureable return in the form of social change. Who’s excited about simplifying outcomes measurement? What is impact investing? How did I get here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Most nonprofits do not have the resources to hire one of these in-demand professionals nor do you see many funding opportunities to build this type of commitment to measurement and learning from data into a nonprofit’s DNA. ” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Today we’re excited to share that Matt Groch , Director of Solution Delivery at Mission Measurement , will offer a keynote called Moneyball for Social Impact, Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the implications of a discrete closed-loop factor analysis framework for social impact. How do we measure social change?

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