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Report calls for shift to more equitable evaluation practices

Candid

A report from the Equitable Evaluation Initiative (EEI) and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations highlights how foundations are working to integrate an equity lens into their evaluation practices. In their engagement with the framework, practitioners identified three key shifts in mindset: from “doing” to “being” (i.e.,

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation? Who decides what is measured?

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Four Nonprofit Web Accessibility Best Practices for 2022

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If you didn’t prioritize accessibility best practices when creating your nonprofit’s website, you could be excluding a significant portion of your nonprofit’s supporters from engaging with it. Regardless of the legality, having an accessible website is simply the best practice. Four Best Practices for an Accessible Website in 2022.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Association Strategies: 7 Best Practices for Your Nonprofit in 2024

Neon CRM

The specifics of your strategy are going to vary depending on your industry or your members’ interests or any one of a hundred other factors—but there are certain best practices that pretty much all successful nonprofit association strategies have in common. Start by outlining your organizational structures. Want some help?

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How Nonprofits Practice Continuous Improvement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A structured reflection process generates insights about what worked and what could be improved. One of the simplest ways to practice continuous improvement is to incorporate a process evaluation. 4) The next step is compare these top level themes against the participant evaluation.(We The Process Steps in Detail.

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Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action

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The existential need for philanthropy indicates that structures exist that fail to meet basic human needs. Even though laws and structures are often driven from the top down, it is a combination of top-down leadership and grassroots movements that create sustainable change.