ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. Nonprofit leaders have heard the call but are struggling to meet expectations due to a lack of basic resources, expertise and support. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. are available?

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. IT specialists will also play a significant role. Remember Management by Walking Around? Don’t forget volunteers.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

For nonprofit organizations, which often have to meet urgent needs with limited resources, the importance of well-designed learning materials cannot be overstated. You can also conduct a training inventory to identify existing resources that can be repurposed. Evaluate and iterate on learning experiences. Embrace microlearning.

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Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

If you’re looking for ways to evaluate your current agendas and optimize them for efficiency, you’ve come to the right place! Assign a speaker to each agenda item and notify them, so they can gather the right resources and practice any presentations. This training shouldn’t stop once they’re comfortable in their roles. .

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I am still evaluating the lessons learned. Civic and government partners played pivotal roles in their ability to provide that support. We advocated fiercely for our members to get protective resources. Evaluate your current community and identify where expanded representation might be beneficial. There are no members.

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VisionLink

AUGUST 31, 2023

WITHINREACH OPENINGS Senior Manager for Data Systems and Evaluation Location: Remote - This is a remote position, but employees must live and work in WA state. Learn more and apply on Indeed.

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Team Colorado Disaster Evaluation 130

Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Once you know what you need, craft clear board role descriptions that resonate and attract. Describe not just the roles but the impact these roles have. Consider using scoring rubrics or structured interview protocols to standardize evaluations and minimize bias to keep things equitable. Create clear board descriptions.

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Director Guide Metrics Nonprofit 75

The NonProfit Times

MAY 14, 2024

Present the most qualified candidates to the board after conducting extensive in-depth interviews and personality assessments and evaluations that best match the ideal position profile. What is your housing market like?

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Although 73% of participants agreed that accelerating trends would require fundamental changes in the roles of associations. Yet, the organization was able to grow that narrow cause into the larger role of supporting maternal and infant health. That’s why they also deserve frequent exploration and evaluation.

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Voice Associations Culture Environment 221

DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

A nonprofit technology assessment is an evaluation of the digital maturity of your organization. Now that we’ve covered the role your nonprofit plays in the nonprofit technology assessment process, let’s cover the tasks your consulting team will complete. Explore this guide to five clear areas where a consultant is a valuable resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You can do this by implementing mid-course check-ins or post-course evaluations. Understanding Seasonal Enrollment Patterns Seasonality plays a significant role in education program enrollment, impacting engagement levels and learner preferences. Which courses do they have a difficult time completing?

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

While usage is a great data point to evaluate your product’s success, there’s so much more to consider when weighing the options to build an in-house solution or use an off-the-shelf product. Throughout the evaluation process, it’s important to keep your association’s unique goals and success metrics top-of-mind.

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Software Build Analytics Associations 321

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Confidence to initiate engagement with your staff and stakeholders and define roles and goals. Recommended resource: How to conduct a content inventory and audit. Recommended resource: How to write a project charter. Recommended resources: A guide to Google Analytics and A guide to obtaining user feedback.

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

Align Strategy and Marketing Align strategic goals with marketing initiatives , and ensure that all teams understand their role and responsibility to deliver results.orgSource Vice President Marketing Communications, Jane Pearson, offers this advice: “The marketing department is not just an external brand ambassador. Study across industries.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

The duty of care ensures that the board of directors provides oversight to responsibly manage the organization’s assets, including its people and financial resources. In other organizations, staff assume a more dominant role in setting strategy and policy, marginalizing the board’s ability to provide strategic direction and oversight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I entered the community as a foundation evaluator wanting to find the best strategies and tools for documenting and learning about networks but also for measuring those difficult-to-pin-down outcomes and impact. Evaluation can also help foundations get the feedback they need to modulate their role and influence.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Identify staffers who will be ambassadors and fill these collaborative roles: Identify employees across the organization to be ambassadors. They are role models who inspire teams to see from a different perspective. ” Engage Broadly To promote that collective focus, engage employees across the organization.

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Leadership Associations Skills Digital 170

sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Audit teams would then be caught off guard, unaware of either newly implemented accounting systems, new chart of accounts, or changes in processes and management roles. Quite often, these vendors offer resources to help nonprofits understand better ways to utilize their software to the best of its capabilities.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Success in highly technical roles relies just as much on customer service and change management as on technical abilities. One approach to documenting skill requirements could be to create a matrix of skills and roles for your organization. You could also review each job description and add essential and helpful skills.

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Skills Technology Develop Training 88

The NonProfit Times

JUNE 3, 2024

Marginalized and underserved communities have not traditionally had access to data resources that could benefit them. As such, they often miss out on benefits such as tailored medical care, sustainable resource use and culture and language preservation. What is the context in which the data is collected or used?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 9, 2018

Evaluating volunteer programs within nonprofit organizations is a key step in continual improvement and data collection. Systematic evaluation can positively impact the organization by creating more structure, providing results for adaptability, increasing volunteer retention and improving staff-volunteer relationships.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Here are some best practices for effectively managing staff turnover and onboarding with your grantmaking software, including some methods of reassigning existing records to new staff members, establishing clear security roles, and building a comprehensive policies and procedures guide to keep everyone on the same page.

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Data Blackbaud Policy Database 79

Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

Most nonprofits conduct some kind of program evaluation, whether it’s simply keeping track of how many people have been directly helped by an organization’s services or complex multi-year studies of a program’s effects on the larger community. So what did we find? Reporting and Visualizing.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

Pre-Award Stage Generating Grant Guidelines Developing grant guidelines requires creating a comprehensive outline of the grant’s objectives, eligibility requirements, application procedure, and evaluation metrics. This evaluation measures the program’s efficacy and the grantee’s ability to achieve the proposed objectives.

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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. What is funder’s role to support good measurement? Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 4, 2012.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

With the right training and practice, middle managers are in the best position to evaluate employee performance and provide feedback that’s continuous rather than just a pro forma yearly review meant to create a paper trail,” share the authors. Build their organization’s knowledge and realign it with shifts from digital disruption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Accepting this challenge, I entered the network weaver role with intermediary partners to develop what has become the nonprofit network and online community, goodWORKSconnect.org. The effort is currently undergoing an evaluation which will direct its geographic focus and future online presence. What do members give to get?

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Roles Illinois Evaluation Boston 88

Candid

MARCH 9, 2022

Toledo-Lucas County Public Library (TLCPL) has been part of Candid’s Funding Information Network since 1980, providing local nonprofits and the public with access to Candid’s resources, including Foundation Directory, for free. Candid : What would you like people to know about your services and how you view your role in the community?

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Library Grant Local Roles 98

Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Frankly, the search, evaluation, interview, and selection process can be very rigorous and time-consuming. Has the organization’s policies, practices, and overall culture been evaluated through the lens of a JEDI approach? . Have you evaluated your public-facing JEDI statements and practices? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Designed to support social sector organizations and consultants with tools and resources to get ready for engagement in capacity-building projects, ImpactRising.org aims to help make the consulting sector stronger. In that spirit, I’m excited to introduce ImpactRising.org as a resource to nonprofits and the consultants they work with.

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The role of your volunteer supervisor should not just be to manage, but to also lead, communicate with, and engage volunteer constituents. Do they feel confident in their volunteer role? You cannot expect volunteers to be successful in their role without adequate training. Evaluation Process. Provide Adequate Training.

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Volunteer Management Tips Training 92

Greater Giving

JANUARY 4, 2024

A donation drive is a purposeful and organized effort to mobilize individuals, communities, or businesses to contribute resources, typically in the form of monetary funds, goods, or services, towards a specific cause or charitable organization.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2023

Despite these, organizations in the nonprofit sector tend not to be at the forefront of devoting significant effort or resources to cybersecurity. Nonprofit web managers, working with an organization’s IT department, can play a significant role in promoting cybersecurity in their organizations. Limit user access.

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sgEngage

JUNE 3, 2024

For a nonprofit organization, these non-revenue resources can be incredibly valuable over the lifetime of a Gen Z supporter. Evaluate your roles and responsibilities document. You need a straightforward role description or landing page to set expectations. Start with a self-assessment. Is it current?

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Define roles and responsibilities clearly Defining roles and responsibilities ensures that potential candidates have a precise understanding of your organization’s expectations and protects against any surprises. Ask behavioral and situational questions to get a better understanding of the candidate’s role compatibility.

Strategy 52

Strategy Interview Skills Retention 52

Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Define roles and responsibilities clearly Defining roles and responsibilities ensures that potential candidates have a precise understanding of your organization’s expectations and protects against any surprises. Ask behavioral and situational questions to get a better understanding of the candidate’s role compatibility.

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Strategy Interview Skills Retention 52