Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From navigating donor data to finding the most effective ways to communicate, AI for fundraising can be applied to many aspects of your organization to help lift some of the burden of changing the world. It can also evaluate your campaigns and programs to find the most successful strategies for you to use to fundraise more efficiently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change. I wondered whether the more general learnings about network effectiveness and evaluating networks would be considered confidential?

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Network Impact Louisville Social 88

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Economic downturns have had a significant impact on the sustainability of local news outlets, leading to layoffs and closures in many areas. Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively.

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Journal Local News Fund 92

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Make the mission or program the hero – Focus messaging on your nonprofit’s values, impact, and service.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Responding to challenges effectively and capitalizing on your strengths can set your nonprofit up for long-term success. A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning technique that involves evaluating your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

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Analysis Guide Nonprofit Retention 52

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Whether you’re planning holiday events or social media campaigns, incorporating texts into your promotion strategy can have a big impact on your success. Finally, like any other fundraising strategy, you should track success metrics for your text messages and use them to evaluate your texts’ effectiveness.

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Practice Puerto Rico Fundraising Metrics 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I’ll be doing a session designing and delivering effective training with John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard on March 14th at 10:30 am. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Conference: March 12-15th. This will be my 14th Nonprofit Technology Conference. No wonder it always feels like a family reunion. More about the session here.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Here are some areas where sales ops deliver significant impact on process: . Sales Activities.

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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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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition, the nonprofit evaluation services GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have teamed up on something called the "Overhead Myth letter." " This letter calls for collecting more complete data on the effectiveness of charities beyond simply having low overhead. Event registrations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

This growing field of “civic tech” is aiming to harness technology to spur citizen engagement, improve cities and make government more effective. Code for America tracks their impact on open governance ecosystems by monitoring a range of results, including the number of apps created by fellows that are sustained by municipal administrations.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits. Effective communication â?? and more precisely, the effective transfer or exchange of knowledge â?? There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience.

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Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Proper major gift donor identification rests with your organization’s ability to efficiently and effectively sift through donor data. Impact 4 Ways to Expertly Manage Donor Data 9 min read Read Now Perform Prospect Research What Is This Strategy? In this section, we’ll guide you through how to make an effective major gift ask.

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Gift Strategy Raise Database 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. 7-Ways To Evaluate and Continuously Improve Virtual Meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. This is evaluation.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

The better job you do at making sure your websites can be conveniently used by as many people as possible, the more people will use your websites, and the more impact you can have as an organization. And as more services are moved to the internet, the negative impacts of inadequate web accessibility get more severe. It’s a legal issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? We brainstormed a few: Real-Time evaluation of communications strategy for a nonprofit or foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. Communications have more impact. Amplify peers’ efforts.

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Network Build Learning Strategy 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Only measure impact, not process. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. This approach is not about counting dollar signs, but about feedback loops which is discussed in Michael Quinn Patton’s new book on Developmental Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. This is part 1 of a series of social networking analysis techniques.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Phonathons are a tried-and-true resource for all sorts of nonprofits and higher education institutions to engage donors and raise money effectively. Here at Double the Donation , we’ve compiled a number of tips and tricks to effectively communicate with your donors about matching gifts and raise more in phonathon revenue overall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Their impact is to make the world a better place. The organization integrates simple measurement techniques and learning as an organizational habit that helps improve practice and documents results from the beginning of every networked approach. T This board is also using social media as part of its governance role.

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Social Media Practice Media Social 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Get a memory upgrade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

I’m always on the look out for useful and thought provoking resources on how nonprofits can use data to make better decisions that lead to greater impact. Data visualization techniques are used not only to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. There are periodic (e.g.,

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In that program, I learned many manners in which I could properly present myself in front of the customer, how to effectively summarize the purpose of my existence within a corporate entity, and most importantly a phone etiquette trick that has stayed with me until this very day. Time Management.

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Application Training Train Business 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”. Here’s a summary: There was a range of practice for using data and measurement to improve social media and demonstrate impact: Crawl. Often overwhelmed.

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Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

Brand Leadership is “from within” leadership, and for branding, marketing, and everything else to be effective, it has to come FIRST. When leaders lead, they are constantly sending signals to everyone through behaviors, messages, decisions, and actions to positive or negative effect. Ignore Brand Leadership at your peril. Clear as mud?

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Leadership Strategy Nonprofit Collaboration 199

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. So I thought I’d share some details on how the exchange worked, and some insights the group learned that helped them increase their impact. What impact did all this have on communities?

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2019

It provides strategies, techniques, and an approach to recognizing and confronting any threat faced by an organization in fulfilling its mission.” . It’s a defined, routine commitment to gather, evaluate and respond to threats and opportunities. Now, this could mean a bunch of different things. It could be from anyone?clients,

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Guide Management Profit Issue 61

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Only measure impact, not process. The network on Twitter responded: If you're overly emotional and reject quantitative data or unemotional and reject lived experience, you are less effective – from Seth Godin shared by WSUCCSR. Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. And so it goes …….

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Story Data Analysis Structure 74

NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2019

It provides strategies, techniques, and an approach to recognizing and confronting any threat faced by an organization in fulfilling its mission.” . It’s a defined, routine commitment to gather, evaluate and respond to threats and opportunities. Now, this could mean a bunch of different things. It could be from anyone?clients,

Guide 58

Guide Management Profit Issue 58

Gyrus

OCTOBER 14, 2016

But just because that mentality exists, it doesn’t mean that it cannot be gamified or even done in an impactful way that can and will completely benefit your system’s learners. Each component must be broken up into its most basic form, for the highest degree of impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In the past year, I''ve seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. Where do you see the biggest resistance to incorporating participatory techniques? Yes and no.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. The premise is that governing well is essential for strong nonprofits working efficiently and effectively to address critical needs in our communities. The IMPACT Conference. The IMPACT Conference.

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Calendar Conference Las Vegas San Diego 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis. During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness.

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