sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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Participatory Evaluation Grant Philanthropy 114

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

We also found that when employees trust one another, managers get better performance evaluations. Activities that promote team cohesion and open communication can significantly enhance trust within the team. Consider integrating trust metrics into performance evaluations to emphasize their importance. Measure and manage trust.

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Change Leadership Empowerment Minnesota 130

.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Evaluation Director Government Leadership 193

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

AMA policy-makers also discussed increased enforcement on nonprofit hospitals that provide little or no community benefit.

Charity 94

Charity Policy Adopt Benefit 94

.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Survey the office and evaluate the comfort quotient. Good health adds joy to every activity. Find ways to encourage both organized and casual activities. Although I doubt that many organizations still need a Casual Friday, if your group is a holdout, this is an easy, high-impact fix. Budget funds for upgrades to home offices.

Giving 448

Giving Alexa Fun Demonstration 448

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Similarly, a grant might have specific conditions like the types of activities it can fund or allowances for overhead expenses. Fund accounting allows you to produce reports that ensure your activities match the grant conditions. If a church raises money for its building fund, that money may not be spent on other church activities.

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Software Guide Nonprofit Award 327

.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

This comprehensive exploration of your digital systems could include evaluating security, network functions, system management, user experience, and overall performance. But understanding where systems and related activities fall on the continuum of progress and being aware of what steps your organization might take next gives you foresight.

Technology 221

Technology Evaluation Attitude Digital 221

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 7, 2024

3) Activate Google for Nonprofits Products Once your organization has been verified, you can activate various Google for Nonprofits products, including Google Ad Grants , Google Workspace for Nonprofits , the YouTube Nonprofit Program , and Google Earth and Maps credits. Typically, the review process takes around 3 business days.

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Grant Google Guide Nonprofit 309

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. They are activities that are frequently governed and controlled by policies and procedures, such as: Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin conversations about risk.

Conversation 221

Conversation Challenge Evaluation Associations 221

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By actively bringing together different departments and leading discussions around revenue diversification, you can set measurable goals, evaluate the ROI of each funding source, and make informed decisions about where to invest time and resources. Finance plays a crucial role in building a sustainable and scalable funding strategy.

Professional 98

Professional Fund Model Build 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

With the year half way over, this is the perfect time to evaluate your progress so far. When using this report though, make sure you identify the status of the pledges to make sure they are all actively being paid. Let’s check out what to consider when measuring your results. This Year Vs. Last Year. Advantages and Obstacles.

Goal 313

Goal Fundraising Nonprofit Pledge 313

Bloomerang

JANUARY 10, 2025

You might consider: Targeted campaign: If you think people might give more if you actively promoted giving at certain levels in return for recognition, thats different than finding out for yourself that this worked after doing a campaign. Especially if it opens up that time for more high-yielding fundraising and donor retention activities.

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Public Donor Gift Disaster 118

.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. Evaluate Resources IT deficits equal a rocky road for remote work. Remember Management by Walking Around?

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Team Evaluation Attitude Survey 221

Gyrus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Measurable training metrics may include completion rates, engagement rates, course evaluations, and assessment scores. This learning analytic metric is crucial in areas like compliance training. Time spent on Activity : Time spent on training and time to completion are metrics that are important to understand.

Analytics 59

Analytics Measure Train Training 59

.orgSource

JUNE 10, 2024

When I began my career in associations, activities were more seasonal,” Sharon observed. Lack of fulfillment in your day-to-day activities. You don’t have to have a finger on the pulse of every activity. This simple activity opens space for both the creator and the reviewer. On a recent Association 4.0

Associations 221

Associations Activism Activities Active 221

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Identify advocates Review reports to find your most active participants. Optimize your programs Evaluate the success of programs and initiatives by reviewing participant feedback, attendance, and outcomes. You can then develop ambassador programs or advocacy campaigns targeting these individuals.

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Registration Chapter Education Fundraising 318

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They may feel like “make work” to you, but remember these activities are not just for your client beneficiaries. Now is the time to re-evaluate your primary fundraising strategies. If you don’t have evening or weekend volunteer opportunities, consider them. Begin thinking of donors as beneficiaries too. Why is this important?

Tips 114

Tips Strategy Volunteer Donor 114

The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These included benchmarks which aimed to evaluate whether the model could help with the development of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) weapons. In the past week, we've shown that prompt evaluation can be used to prevent jailbreaks. He argues that the models may be more dangerous than OpenAI believes or indicates.

Evaluation 59

Evaluation Research Benchmark Model 59

.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you think EI is a soft skill, one of those activities that requires maximum effort for minimum results, these statistics tell a different story. Actually, introducing EI is probably easier than more concrete activities, such as choosing a new software platform. However, like that puppy, EI is not a one-and-done sort of activity.

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Virtual Work Skills Culture 221

sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Your Database Has Outgrown Your Current System An expanding database of donors and prospects, multiplied by an ever-increasing set of associated activities and transactions, can overwhelm a CRM thats not built for that level of data growth. Free Resource Enterprise Nonprofit CRM Evaluation Guide Download now 4.

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Organization North Carolina Donor Blackbaud 105

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Essentially, this is a folder of Word documents each containing answers to common grant application questions, like organization mission and activities, the greatest challenges our nonprofit faces, how we measure and evaluate program impact, how we recognize funders, etc.

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Grant Application New Hampshire Library 100

sgEngage

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Grants and Donations: Actively seek grants and donations to support your disaster response initiatives. Conduct After-Action Reviews and Continuous Improvement After the immediate response phase, conducting after-action reviews is essential to evaluate your performance and identify areas for improvement.

Tips 98

Tips Disaster Time Donation 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

Here are 5 strategies to activate and sustain Brand Leadership in your organization: 1) Start with Leadership Obviously, Brand Leadership must start with leaders. 4) Find Content Everywhere Once you grasp your Brand Delta and are actively tackling it, it’s time to consider content. In other words, Brand Leadership IS Leadership.

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Leadership Strategy Nonprofit Collaboration 232

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2018

Too often, nonprofits count the critical activities of research, evaluation, financial management and other core capacities as “overhead” when they are truly essential to the overall health of a nonprofit.

Trend 279

Trend Digital Fundraising Donor 279

.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

Review Systematically How do you evaluate whether your organization’s data is pristine, polluted, or somewhere in the murky in-between? Assessing the status of your data involves reviewing activity across several areas of competence. If any of the following issues sound familiar, it may be time for an intervention.

Government 251

Government Data Experiment Disaster 251

.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I am still evaluating the lessons learned. Ongoing cross-functional activities that deliver lasting value. The board meeting agenda, the website update, and filling staff vacancies, are everyday tasks that make it easy to defer activities that don’t require immediate attention. The pandemic was a wormhole. There are no members.

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Milwaukee Wisconsin Associations Collaboration 221

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

However, as a geoscientist with experience in resource evaluation, I have been reading technical reports, many of them behind paywalls, to understand whats at stake. A multibillion-year history of fault movement and volcanic activity created a diversity of minerals concentrated in local sites and across some larger regions.

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Ukraine Lithium Russia Resource 90

Gyrus

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Evaluate Compliance-Specific Features Once compliance needs are defined, organizations should focus on evaluating LMS platforms based on their compliance-specific features. Essential functionalities include: Audit Trail Capabilities : Ensure the LMS provides robust logging of all user activities to support transparency during audits.

Life 52

Life Training Train Evaluation 52

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Images: Meta] Once a note is submitted, it’s evaluated by other Community Notes contributors. Allegedly, the latter is the firewall to avoid coordinated activism against certain types of posts (although the algorithm hasnt been proved to be totally effective on X).

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Community System Headline Design 95

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

Sentiment analysis for enhanced communication: Advanced AI tools can also evaluate the tone and mood of messages and responses—providing valuable insights into audience emotions and how they perceive content. By tailoring campaigns to these supporters, nonprofits can deliver more effective mobile messaging.

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Mobile Trend Social Media Donation 321

Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Were constantly monitoring feedback from users to evaluate performance and make necessary improvements. Were actively seeking your feedback on both resources so we can continue to make improvements. Its easy: You simply input the name or EIN of your organization and get funder and RFP recommendations. What do you think?

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Fund Grant Fundraising Award 84

.orgSource

MARCH 4, 2024

This methodology was used to evaluate expanding the American Board of Medical Specialties, ABMS CertLink®, platform into new markets. The platform removes burdensome activities, provides an ongoing learning and assessment process, and continues to offer the public a reliable marker of trust. That idea might seem a little miraculous.

Strategy 221

Strategy Marketing Associations Professional 221

.orgSource

JULY 3, 2023

Fonts—Evaluate whether your current brand typefaces work well on screen. And, unlike many other activities, video rewards them with the ability to track exposure. But many associations are still asking sponsors to support activities where success can’t be evaluated. These are areas for consideration.

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Video Communication Strategy Create 221

.orgSource

JULY 22, 2024

Self-evaluation isn’t easy. Membership Growth Rate Retention Rate Demographics Engagement Event Attendance Website Traffic and User Behavior Volunteer Activity Finance Revenue Streams Operating Reserves Leadership and Governance Board Member Engagement. landscape, innovation is the cornerstone of excellence.

Associations 221

Associations Leadership Exercise Phase 221

.orgSource

JUNE 24, 2024

If an organizational evaluation isn’t on your agenda, now is the time to revise your schedule. Actively manage existing products, develop new offerings, and ensure access to capital for future investments. A Continuous Journey The most important point about all these activities is that they are not an end in themselves.

Associations 221

Associations Professional Leadership Skills 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

You need to think through purpose, roles, meeting norms, materials, facilitator agenda (specially if you are using online tools to do activities like brainstorming, etc), technical, scheduling, and communication. In face-to-face meetings, one way we get engagement is doing activities like brainstorming and sticky voting.

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Facilitation Virtual Effective Technique 167

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Its also important to allocate sufficient funds for evaluation and monitoring activities to ensure the projects success. Furthermore, you should carefully evaluate the scalability and long-term sustainability of proposed projects to ensure that grant funds are invested wisely and have a lasting impact beyond the grant period.

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Grant Tips Tampa Guidelines 52