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What Best Practices Exist in the Nonprofit Sector to Improve Operational Effectiveness and Achieve Greater Impact?

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Nonprofit organizations are increasingly under pressure from funders, clients, and others to “prove” that they are achieving their mission effectively and efficiently (Renz and Murray, 2010). Meaningful tools to evaluate effectiveness are largely absent (Liket and Maas, 2015).

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The 12th Issue of NTEN: Change is Out - "Outcomes & Impact"

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Much of 2010 was focused on Project Cultivar, which worked in the Dominican Republic sugarcane plantations and its company towns, bateyes. Every nonprofit aims to have impact, but few have the systems in place to calculate little more than outputs.

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To Scale or Not to Scale: What Should Nonprofits Consider Before Deciding to Expand a Program for Greater Impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

“Today, there may be no idea with greater currency in the social sector than ‘scaling what works’” (Bradach, 2010, p. For nonprofits seeking to expand their programs, careful analysis of self and environment are crucial. The Evaluation Exchange , 15(1), 4–6. Ask the following questions: Why should the program scale up?

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Case Study: Death With Dignity National Center Applies Lessons from the Nonprofit Technology Leadership Academy

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Gaining buy-in early on, soliciting bids and conducting an ROI analysis helped Death With Dignity National Center prioritize its top technology projects and prepare to develop metrics for evaluation. Kimberlee Roth.

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2010 NTC Preview: Mark Becker on Boosting Event Returns

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And we were doubly pleased because the session focuses on data and data evaluation as a means to making it happen. (If Get a preview in our chat together: If you're still kind of scared of pivot tables, Mark and I also talked about putting some data analysis sessions together, so stay tuned!

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Online Learning Trends That You Can’t Ignore

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Almost two-thirds of Americans are predicted to own a smartphone by 2017, more than a threefold increase since 2010. One can evaluate training effectiveness, learner’s preferences, and usage patterns through analysis and visualizing software, Tin Can and other analytics tools. According to a survey by eMarketer, 59.3

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Can Stories Be Data?

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Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising, and marketing.

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