ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

“Inclusive organizations create systems that encourage ongoing intellectual and stylistic disruptions of the status quo in service of an underlying organizational mission. The Council on Nonprofits has samples to review. Develop an organizational diversity and inclusion statement for staff and board.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Co-hosted with Siteimprove Most government digital ecosystems are a complex web of platforms, systems, and governance models that are often delicate and difficult to untangle. This is just a sampling of the events we hosted in 2021! Website Modernization: Migrating to Digital Government Services. Personalization 1.x:

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

After a thorough review process, you’ll be ready to select your nonprofit’s board. Include specific times of the year when the organization’s board members and staff will review the policy. Review the IRS’s Top Ten Tips to shorten the tax-exempt application process to ensure a speedier turnaround. of the overall workforce.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2009

I have a new post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review and this is a special post because it’s actually a book review. You can find the review below, or on the SSIR Opinion Blog. When we assume we are separate, we build systems that reinforce that separateness. Individuals will go where systems lead them.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

When you set marketing systems in place, they don’t always work together like they should. System/Materials reviews: You spent a ton of time, energy, and, in some cases, money setting up your marketing systems. Put yourself in the shoes of a member of your audience when you self-audit your systems. What’s working?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Are there any major gaps where data was entered into a system incorrectly? If so, it’s best to figure that out now and correct it before getting too far into the weeds of building any sophisticated data warehousing or reporting systems. Here are a few sample questions you might consider adding to your list: How fast are we growing?

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

We all make up systems as we go along, we all look for inspiration at non-parallel models, we all incorporate game-theory into our work, and we enjoy thinking about how to bring incentives into the act of participating in our communities. Moss ) is a must-read for any leader or staff member who has ambitions of being a leader at a nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

ACTION: Get board members to review your donor list. Ask them if they’ll write a brief handwritten note on the next appeal you mail (give them a few sample notes). ACTION: Put a system in place to hand sign thank you letters. Make sure you have a system in place to notify recipients of the gifts made in their honor.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

For example, they could assist with the search for a learning management system or consult on the pricing of your courses. If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2012

This great workbook from Idealware and Darim Online provides insightful questions, exercises, and a sample policy template that community managers can use as a starting point in creating an organization’s official social media policy. Debra Askanase has a great review of the workbook that I’d recommend you check out as well.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Review your activities and numbers from the last year. As you review each activity from last year, ask yourself: Should we keep doing it? A child advocacy organization might aim to double the number of volunteers trained to protect children in the court system. Staying on track Review your plan at the beginning of each month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. Staff performance reviews incorporate how well the organization is doing on KPIs. Technical or Systems Challenges. Does not have a dashboard or simple collection method.

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Forum One

JUNE 10, 2021

What data can you review to assess the current state of online giving to your organization? Additionally, you may have reports from social media channels, like Facebook and Twitter, and maybe a third-party fundraising system, like Blackbaud or Classy. Landing pages: Review visitors who entered your site on the same page together.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

As an intern with HRDAG , I was part of the team analyzing data drawn from documents in the National Police Archive, a cache of approximately 80 million sheets of paper kept by the police system during the Guatemalan Civil War, a 36-year long conflict that ended in 1996.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Transitioning to the Cloud Many community members mentioned that they would be transitioning either some or all of their systems to the cloud this year. There are a couple recent webinars to review as well, including Best Practices for Data Visualization and Connections & Opportunities for data and the cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

For the past few months, we’ve been engaged in a comprehensive review of our grantmaking strategy. We have set up a Web site, [link] , to share information and conversation about the ongoing review. Program Officer focus group (May 2012), internal review meeting (July 2012), and lots of conversations with our colleagues.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page. Volunteers look at a photo of a missing person, compare it to a news image, and see if they can find a match.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

This means identifying the goals and KPIs for measuring success of your event. You also want to be sure to set up a measurement system for a landing page where you are collecting RSVPs (and email addresses) and perhaps testing some different messaging. The first step is to get organized. Many nonprofits use EventBrite for this purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Harvard Business Review, March 2013. Foundation Review (Vol 5:3) Makes the case that most foundation strategies are unfolding in complex and dynamic environments, and foundations need a more committed approach to learning and strategic adaptation. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy. They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2017

A Review of a Standard Risk: Failure to Meet Program Outcomes. For-profit entities were the first to develop systemic policies, procedures, and practices to identify, analyze, and assess risks as well as to communicate the context and outcomes of risk management. In my experience, the issue is not one of competence but of systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. It wasn’t scientific, and the sample was about.05%

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2013

As she says: "We under-invested in systems infrastructure, we under-invested in fund development, and we under-invested in human resources. The Stanford Social Innovation Review even has a term for it: the nonprofit starvation cycle. FORGE collapsed, unable to continue serving a community that was desperately in need of support.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We provide both a feature summary and detailed reviews, as well as a directory of consultants. We provide both a feature summary and detailed reviews, as well as a directory of consultants. The report also includes our new directory of consultants and designers who help nonprofits implement these Content Management Systems."

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Achieve

JULY 28, 2021

With all of your waivers collected in a secure digital database, you can search for specific participants, make notes on participant records, integrate with a reservation or member management system, and transfer contact information to email marketing platforms. . . Confirmation of review. Acknowledgment of potential risk.

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NTEN

AUGUST 2, 2012

That new CRM, website, or donor management system is going to magically fix your organization’s inefficient processes, fidgety funders, and demotivated staff! Definitely DON’T look at TechSoup’s sample technology budget to find out how to do this: [link] DON’T put technology in someone’s formal job description.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

This guide explains that organizations can use learning management systems to design courses that ensure everyone is on the same page. From this course, he learns more about how he can better personalize the emails he sends to existing supporters using the tools and system he currently works with. Self-paced learning.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

Their study reviewed literature about the effect of SOX on nonprofits as well as surveys and other basic research implemented by the authors. Financial Controls: The most significant costs related to SOX compliance relate to the review of internal controls and further reviews by external auditors. The result of their work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

There are also some great practical tips , sample mentor/mentee agreement , and plan. And, of concern, of the younger professionals working the nonprofit sector survey, only 34% said they were committed to staying in the sector for the long haul. Perhaps at this point you may thinking, wow this is a lot of time and work. Is it worth it?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

The way a consent agenda works is that you agree to email out ALL information a week or so ahead of the Board meeting, and all Board members agree to review the information before coming to the Board meeting. Practical/tactical stuff like processes and systems is easy to fix. People-problems are harder to fix.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

They reference an article from the fall 2009 Stanford Social Innovation Review , The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle. Here is just a sample of representative comments from survey respondents: We completely cut one program and seven staff positions and have placed another program on hold pending additional funding.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2016

Discover how to identify, enter, group, and present information in your accounting system. Find helpful suggestions on building a practical chart of accounts and download a sample chart designed just for nonprofit organizations. These reports save time and make it easier for others to review your finances. Read more › 8.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up on the opinion blog – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or read the full post below.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

See [link] for a sample implementation questionnaire that you can use for this purpose. It will also provide you with a sample chart of accounts of my design and one called the "Unified Chart of Accounts," which was created by a number of major nonprofit support organizations. SUGGESTED METHOD #2.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 5, 2011

The dominant status theory attributes low minority volunteering to their less prevalent social positions and roles within the socio-cultural system (Mesch, Rooney, Steinberg, & Denton, 2006). Annual Review of Sociology , 26, 215-240. American Sociological Review , 62 (5): 694-713. Accessed on March 12th, 2010. Volunteering.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

My latest Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion piece is up and copied below. Apple, though, seems to have a cripplingly closed system; here’s Jake: The other issue gets to Apple’s broader competitive approach. You can read and comment on the original post here.

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