ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2022

In order to tie outcomes to mission, leaders must embrace and invest in outcome measurement. One CEO of a local behavioral health and human service organization found value in program evaluation measures in his organization where there was no prior initiative to evaluate programs.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 23, 2013

They are specific changes or benefits that include a transformation in knowledge, attitudes, values, skills, behaviors or conditions. Outcome information and measurement are the not-for-profit equivalents of the for-profit industry's return on investment. Heart of Illinois United Way. Outcomes are not just visions or goals.

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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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Learn more from Danielle about skill-based volunteering programs in the sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 124: Making Pro-Bono Volunteering Work for Your Organization. Common Impact wanted a better way to think about measuring our own work, and as we dug in, we realized it would have value for others in the social good sector, too.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

Association professionals are seeking a support group to help them face challenges and to gain the skills to stay ahead of trends. You’re stuck using revenue growth as the primary measure of success when you could focus on impact.” It’s no longer centered on helping members have a successful career or take that next step up the ladder.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 14, 2024

What personal competencies and skills will the new executive need to possess to lead your organization forward? Conduct an extensive targeted outreach to organizations and professional trade associations to identify potential candidates with the competencies, skills and personal attributes required.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I spent a year co-writing on a book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” with measurement guru KD Paine because I felt strongly focusing on vanity metrics such as follower counts or Facebook likes was a waste of time. I didn’t get asked ”What are the best tools to measure followers on Twitter?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Researchers have measured the time savings created by generative AI. The most important skill nonprofit leaders can learn and teach their teams is to know when to use AI and when to use human skills. It means that the job description and tasks might shift and require using or learning different skills.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2024

This begs the question: What should community college completion look like, and what measures of attainment equate to success in this higher education sector? An expanded overview of two-year diploma acquisition at three years and beyond increases traditional completion rates, but only minimally.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

Barriers to Email Measurement Keep Rising Measuring email performance has changed, and it continues to become more difficult. The only completely reliable metric to measure email performance is conversion rate, which presents its own challenges, since conversion rates always lag behind open and click rates.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

By posting descriptions that accurately describe a position’s duties and responsibilities, your candidates will be able to tell whether their skills and interests will align and if the position is ultimately a good fit for both them and your organization. Preferred skills. Necessary experience.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

By posting descriptions that accurately describe a position’s duties and responsibilities, your candidates will be able to tell whether their skills and interests will align and if the position is ultimately a good fit for both them and your organization. Preferred skills. Necessary experience.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2019

While most days of service engage volunteers in projects like building a home, cleaning a local park or packing groceries at a food bank, a skills-based volunteer day of service can help address a different type of nonprofit need: capacity support. Second, measure and communicate your results from the day and beyond. communities.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2013

In the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates which was released today, measurement takes center stage. But in the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

Facebook Custom Landing Tabs + Measurement = Best Practice. While custom tabs might look nice and can be strategic, if you don’t measure – it’s a waste of time. Now it takes some tech skills to pull this off because of the switch to iFrames. You might need some graphic design skills though.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. Sense-making is an essential workplace skill along with several others. ”- Hal Varian, Google.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When measuring your impact, you probably do so in relation to the specific needs of the community you serve, but you are also just one in a broader network of organizations working collectively to create a sustainable future for all. Each step you take to maximize your impact creates a ripple that carries through to create global change.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

Measure Results “Marketers are always looking to measure their skills. That’s a reminder to proceed with caution. The bots are subject to unexpected flights of fancy. Let me know if you experiment and learn more about AI’s predictive powers. Eventually I believe that organizations will be building their own AI tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What is your measurement pilot?

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 22, 2024

The second playbook focuses on measuring and communicating impact in meaningful ways. Download Revealing Volunteer Impact in Your City to go beyond counting hours alone and transform the way you measure and communicate volunteer impact. Sharing the positive difference volunteers make is more important than ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2013

The second book also features cartoons from my good friend, Rob Cottingham at Social Signal. But the secret sauce was working with a peer learning group of Packard grantees that tested the frameworks and contributed many of the case stories in the book.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2019

Engaging skilled volunteers (also known as pro bono service) can be way to solve the capacity challenge. But volunteers aren’t “free” and in order for skilled volunteerism to be effective, your organization must be ready to make the most of this valuable contribution of time and talent.

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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. We also love to develop overlapping and complementary skills with other aspects of digital strategy. That’s where our Data and Analytics Team comes in. Strategy and development.

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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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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2022

In today’s episode, you’ll hear an excerpt from the Skills UP webinar series. Skills UP Webinar Series. SMART stands for specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-based.” What do you know about setting goals for yourself and your team and managing those goals? Manager’s goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Strive to create a culture that is at once both hard and soft – simultaneously tough in driving for measurable results on a few highly visible targets and supportive of individuals to create an environment of collaboration, trust, and loyalty. How do we measure our success as a company? What is needed to make these results happen?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

Truly effective leaders are also distinguished by a high degree of emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness , self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. These qualities may sound “soft”, but Goleman found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable results. Self-Management Skills.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2011

I noticed that Jenny Ambrozek , someone who thinks deeply about networks in a business context, re-tweeted one of my musings on network leadership skill sets. She pointed me to her fabulous deck and wiki on the topic. Network analysis provides a new measurement tool. Social network analysis can reveal knowledge flows and roles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. The Playbook gives you an examples.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In part three of this series on how to become a great nonprofit storyteller, I talk about the practical skills you need to tell an effective story. Measure how successful your story is. What you measure will depend on your goals. Read parts one and two. For example, you might look at: . Volunteer sign ups.

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