sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Financial Management Luminary Session Panel Discussion: Using Your Voice in a Sea of Change *don’t miss* Your finance team touches all aspects of your organization—grant programs, fundraising goals, vendor management. That makes you a vital part of any change management conversation, but you may not always be asked to the table.

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Blackbaud Chart Denver Nonprofit 84

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Having this data available and integrated into the reporting system allows grantees to not only meet these reporting requirements efficiently, but also to appropriately measure costs based on statistical units, such as square footage. Adopt a robust fund accounting system. Keep the momentum going.

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Grant Process Management Tips 98

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 88

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

For example, images and content displayed on the homepage will change based on past clicking and scrolling behavior. Establish new digital governance and implement change management. Change management is quite simply a proactive approach to managing change in an organization’s processes, goals, or technologies.

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Websites Strategy Change Management Digital 58

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Technology adoption: More nonprofits are using technology to manage their operations , communicate with their stakeholders, and deliver their services. Does it ask for information that helps you measure your progress, evaluate your impact, or learn from your failures? Does your application align with your vision?

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Application Leadership Grant Philanthropy 95

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? Next, funders stunt risk with their beloved wait-and-see approach. I like to explain the expectation of perfection and denial of failure by talking about science.

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Problem Skills Proposal Grant 78

sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

A few key things to keep in mind: AI measures probabilistic outcomes in response to a question to determine what data it should show. Get the design or presentation of prediction solutions wrong and you can impact user trust and adoption. Basically: answer A is 56% likely; B is 23% likely, etc. ChatGPT is a probabilistic model.

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Model Italy Test Generation 73

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Effective impact measurement and reporting: Nonprofits rely on data warehouses to track and measure their impact over time. Change management issues: Anytime a new technology tool is introduced to your organization, you’ll face some growing pains and adoption challenges.

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Data Guide Proposal Nonprofit 52

NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

None of us like the fact that the percentage of income we spend on "overhead" is the primary measure of our effectiveness. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer. Defining effectiveness and system for reporting that promotes adoption in the sector.

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Roles Question Ratio API 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Several months ago, my colleague Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable invited me to facilitate a discussion with members about the issues that swirl around organizational adoption of social media. We look at the wrong measures or unrealistic outcomes. I think this is the key to adoption and social media success.

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Social Media Culture Create Media 99

NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

None of us like the fact that the percentage of income we spend on "overhead" is the primary measure of our effectiveness. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer. Defining effectiveness and system for reporting that promotes adoption in the sector.

Roles 57

Roles Question Ratio API 57

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Through this framing, the young people who participate in their grantmaking have started adopting language that has traditionally been reserved for a different community. “We Don’t consider this a stagnant process. Consider this a continual process.”

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 69

NTEN

MARCH 12, 2013

What kind of risks would your organization be taking if you adopt that new social network into your communications? What is the risk of not adapting to a changing technology culture? Case-Study from Metropolitan Chicago YMCA on using data to drive efficiency and measure impact.

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Issue Chicago Case Study NTEN 59

NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

If we expect productivity and results, we need to measure them. These measurements will form the basis of employee reviews. Managers in those organizations did observational "ride alongs", or recordings of calls and meetings with customers. This simply won't work for WFH 2.0. What do you think?

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Work Second Life Laptop Audio 97

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With advances in technology such as artificial intelligence, automation, and cloud services flooding the marketplace, nonprofits feel the pressure to adapt, adopt, and innovate. Take adoption of cloud technology as a good example. But how do you determine what’s worthwhile and what’s a distraction from your mission?

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2011

By Duane Raymond, FairSay Derogative terms for digital activism like clicktivism and slacktivism have been rapidly adopted over the last year by a growing range of critics. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ]

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Journal Sound Digital Campaign 82

NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2011

We use technology really well in a measured and strategic way. We have adopted Facebook and Twitter and examine new tools before taking them to assess their usefulness in reaching our community. Adopting video into our mix of communications and marketing tools to tell the story of those affected by a brain tumour.

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Brain Canada NTEN Technology 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

What am I supposed to measure? For this post, I wanted to focus on the first issue - the mismatch between organizational culture and social media adoption. As Charlene Li pointed out, " Change management processes take years - you don't change over night. Tags: change management. Is it working?

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Social Media Media Social Model 61

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The undisputed champion of technology project failure is poor user adoption. Make One Change at a Time (this ensures you can identify improvement or decline). Measure Results of Change (improvement = do more, decline = change approach). PRINCIPLE 2: Keep Everyone in the Loop. Return to Step 1 with a new Process.

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Process Technology Raise Fund 92

Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2018

However, it’s critical to have a clear vision and plan for organizational change management before changing your digital team structure, even if you find that your organization is in that bottom 40%. This lack of leadership and structural confusion around engagement leadership limits adoption of many best practices.

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Gyrus

APRIL 10, 2018

How To Foster User Adoption In Your New Learning Management System? As you are planning to transition from your outdated Learning Management System (LMS) to your new LMS application it is important to keep in mind your users’ perception of the change. ” Educate on the Interworkings of the New Program.

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Learning Management Adopt System Learning 80

Forum One

JUNE 21, 2023

A successful strategy defines a clear problem, understands and defines the audiences you’re trying to reach, and includes plans and tactics for measuring and analyzing success along the way. Too often new tools are adopted ad hoc, or old tools are maintained, without a clear connection to the organization’s purpose or how it works.

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Digital Case Study Map Review 64

Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

But with change comes new opportunities to evaluate and improve on existing business processes and demonstrate to existing and potential supporters that your organization is dedicated to compliance and ethical accounting practices. This article and infographic provides tips for getting started with compliance change management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Seth Godin took a swing at nonprofits today in a blog post “ The problem with non ," saying that nonprofits are afraid of change and that many are lacking in social media adoption. Is that how we measure social impact now? Tags: change management. Photo by THall. Twitter & Digg? and social media.

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Digg Profit Social Media Nonprofit 100

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

But as many of us have found out the hard way, on-time and on-budget projects do not necessarily mean a new system will realize proposed goals and yield expected value…or that users will even adopt the system as desired. Next time, I’ll continue with a discussion of resources, scope creep, change management, and user adoption. (If

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

User Adoption and Change Management. Preparing end-users to change their ways and use a new system is critical to any IT project – what’s the point of going through a deployment if the system doesn’t get used in production (see here for some of my high-level thoughts on the topic )? Measurement.

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