Greater Giving

AUGUST 20, 2024

There are frequent conflicts between team members and a high turnover rate, which impacts the organization’s morale and productivity. But letting your internal culture fall by the wayside will eventually negatively impact your team’s enthusiasm, productivity, and even retention rates. Start by evaluating where you are.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

Some foundations have open RFIs (Request for Information), open LOIs (Letter of Inquiry), RFPs (Request for Proposal) and others have open calls for applications around a campaign. Here are 13 tips for writing a grant proposal: Keep the narrative on how the world or community will be different as a result of the work.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Best practices say that when you’re ready to find a new association management software (AMS) system, you should issue a request for proposal (RFP). Read on for tips to ensure your RFP drives accurate proposals and helps you find the right AMS for your organization. Proposal format/outline. Proposal due date.

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2024

Data Analytics Making sense of data within a nonprofit can be challenging, but AI tools can provide valuable insights into donor behavior, campaign performance, and program impact. It can help tailor email outreach based on donor interests, generate drafts for grant proposals and reports, and provide suggestions for volunteer communication.

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Greater Giving

JULY 18, 2024

There are frequent conflicts between team members and a high turnover rate, which impacts the organization’s morale and productivity. But letting your internal culture fall by the wayside will eventually negatively impact your team’s enthusiasm, productivity, and even retention rates. Start by evaluating where you are.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits. Monitor program impact. Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals. Strengthen your financial reporting efforts. Discuss the project with your board. Set concrete guidelines.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The disparities highlighted by the COVID-19 health crisis in health access, education equity, underinvested neighborhoods, and lack of or underemployment, all play a role in the disproportionate impact the crisis will continue to have on Latino and underserved communities nationwide. Take inventory of your internal (e.g.,

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. Now, let’s say that, during a proposed budget review, you notice that the board has cut funding for a top-rated yearly educational program with your constituents. Surveys can be a great tool for this.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

There are a few core attributes of communities that I think contribute to the ability to identify opportunities, propose solutions, and effectively make change in a very different way than organizations, including: Communities are flexible. Leadership and decision making come from adoption not from executive authority.

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Gyrus

JULY 27, 2023

It offers different tools for evaluation, communication, and administration in addition to tools for designing, planning, and delivering courses. Evaluating Key Features and Functionality Different LMSs bring different things to the table. Your business goals will also join the scene to help in the evaluation.

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Gyrus

JULY 27, 2023

It offers different tools for evaluation, communication, and administration in addition to tools for designing, planning, and delivering courses. Evaluating Key Features and Functionality Different LMSs bring different things to the table. Your business goals will also join the scene to help in the evaluation.

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Gyrus

JULY 27, 2023

It offers different tools for evaluation, communication, and administration in addition to tools for designing, planning, and delivering courses. Evaluating Key Features and Functionality Different LMSs bring different things to the table. Your business goals will also join the scene to help in the evaluation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

One tip I could have used early on was to plan and design the grant project before writing up a query letter or proposal. Once you plan your project, it will be easier to evaluate specific funding sources (our next step!) Evaluation Plan. Most funders require applicants to state the outcomes of their project in the proposal.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

Introducing the National Talent Bank - The National Talent Bank is an idea proposed by the Council on Social Action. Fission Strategy | Fast Company - Based on recent studies about Internet and communication technology use or adoption, the Digital Divide doesn't seem to necessarily be disappearing. Find me on Delicious for more!

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

You can discover that early in the process and redirect your team toward more impactful actions. How changes to your program overall will impact your efforts. With this, you can benchmark against overall efficiency, contacts acquired, new households visited, proposals granted, and more. Peer Benchmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. ” This books updates their experiences and provides easily understandable, field-tested information on how to form and manage social-impact networks.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Have you ever wondered how to turn your corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs from well-intentioned efforts into strategic drivers of social impact? They may also use CSR platforms to track their own contributions and impact. They track employee participation and measure the impact of these programs.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. You know, impact is always good for year end. well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? What is impact? So we have several different topics today and the four.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

7 L&D Challenges Solution Adoption: A 360-Degree Perspective 1. Lack of Flexibility What does a lack of flexibility in L&D adoption actually mean? Proposed solutions: To address these challenges, L&D professionals must: Adopt a more flexible and learner-centric approach to designing and delivering training programs.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

7 L&D Challenges Solution Adoption: A 360-Degree Perspective 1. Lack of Flexibility What does a lack of flexibility in L&D adoption actually mean? Proposed solutions: To address these challenges, L&D professionals must: Adopt a more flexible and learner-centric approach to designing and delivering training programs.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

7 Challenges of L&D Adoption: A 360-Degree Perspective 1.Lack Lack of Flexibility What does a lack of flexibility in L&D adoption actually mean? Proposed solutions: To address these challenges, L&D professionals must: Adopt a more flexible and learner-centric approach to designing and delivering training programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). And the user-adoption numbers are ridiculously high.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Twitterstorm, anyone?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change. How do we—innovators, entrepreneurs—know what's going to make real-world impact and where do we start?

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this resource, we’ll guide you through how to holistically evaluate ROI, including direct and indirect costs and savings, how long it will take to get a return, and tying it all back to the goals of your team to make a powerful case for change. Now you’re ready to start evaluating your options for providers. It’s fun, I promise!).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who” thought it up or campaigned for it. Who’s the community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are several learning cohort groups, including one on better understanding network impact. What domains of impact should be considered (e.g. impact of the crowd-produced product, impact on the crowd / community)? How do you measure the impact of the crowd here? What do you track?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This post features advice from IT and grants management experts on how to streamline your tech solutions, create clear processes, and drive more external and internal impact. McKnight used to require two application steps: a letter of inquiry, followed by a full proposal. For some of these apps, we’re still in adoption phase.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

To do that, you need to value quality writing as much as you value quality programming, and you need to adopt a culture of quality writing as early in your lifecycle as possible to harness its power and influence. Your board members write thank you letters , and your chief exec­utive writes partnership proposals.

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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. Assess the impact on your operations. How much will your current business processes be impacted?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2012

Note From Beth: Just before I left for Rwanda, I caught some interesting discussion threads about organizational adoption of networked ways of working on Twitter coming from the #COFLA hashtag as a result of the Council on Foundations gathering in Florida. measure the impact of foundation communications. The result was empowering.

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