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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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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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Strategic Goals and Objectives: Specific and measurable targets the nonprofit aims to achieve. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. The report gives that board member empirical evidence that that proposed growth would likely be unattainable.

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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? ” I know I speak fast. Why is it important?”

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

With this wealth of data, Peter Drucker’s maxim , “What gets measured, gets managed,” has never been more apropos for nonprofits as 2020 nears. If it can be measured, can it be managed? Learn more about how artificial intelligence is advancing social good in this free webinar: The Future of Data, Analytics and AI.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There are several ways we approach accessibility at Forum One that all organizations, of any size, can adopt or adapt. I’m Determined provides tools that help young people, especially those with disabilities, to undertake a measure of control in their lives. List accessibility as a requirement in your Request for Proposals (RFP).

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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? CSR software is a technology solution designed to help businesses manage, measure, and report on their CSR and sustainability initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

Their web site tools provide useful information for grassroots advocates or anyone for that matter to stay informed on health care-related topics such as the proposed Medicaid cuts in the budget that are currently being debated in Congress. In this example of using grassroots organizing to influence grass tops debates, how do we measure it?

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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. Outcomes usually reflect the long-term impact of a project toward solving a community problem or toward improving the lives of the people served by the project. Objectives. Evaluation Plan.

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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. You can also measure your team’s actions as a whole against those of other major gift teams to see if you’re aligned with the competition. Peer Benchmarking.

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Network for Good

MAY 3, 2021

For your recurring giving strategy, just like your other fundraising and marketing efforts, you should define a specific goal that will help you align your tactics and measure your progress. What is the measurable impact of that effort? Your goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.

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Network for Good

MAY 3, 2021

For your recurring giving strategy, just like your other fundraising and marketing efforts, you should define a specific goal that will help you align your tactics and measure your progress. What is the measurable impact of that effort? Your goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2016

I am thrilled to announce the official launch of my third book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout with co-author Aliza Sherman. WAKE gets technology and communications tools, training and support to women’s rights leaders and their organizations so they can accelerate their impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle. Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2017

It’s part of our nature to want to leave a mark and be involved in something that’s going to have impact. I challenge the industry to adopt a new metric. Why Return on Mission is a More Accurate Measurement. in terms of impact to the mission? but rather how much that investment impacts the mission itself.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Check your organization’s website, recent RFPs, grant proposals, etc. Use this section as the “elevator pitch” for your fundraising proposal. Rather than adopting a all-hands-on-deck campaign mentality, you're better off applying the same segmenting tactics to your supporter base. Fundraising plan summary. The public.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. I’m measuring this entire effort by how it much it does to change this sorry state of affairs, in both the short and long term.

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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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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 19, 2015

They’re sharing updates on Facebook and photos on Instagram , and are early adopters for any new idea that comes along. Meanwhile, I plug away on direct mail , newsletters, case statements and proposals, with an occasional eAppeal or eNewsletter…or even a blog post.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Prioritize your ROI around the biggest impact, whether that’s raising funds, engaging people, or something else. But, if you have a good percentage of your constinuents who are early adopters and tech savvy, it’s a great place to be. Butterfield was speaking from the floor about the proposed energy bill on the hill.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Is it best to create a monetary goal or one based on impact metrics? How has COVID impacted your organization? That match made a big impact in incentivizing younger donors who tended to give smaller amounts. Other Examples: An Adopt-a-Family campaign for families in need Movember: growing a beard for charity in November.

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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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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2016

An organization will be regarded as attempting to influence legislation if it contacts, or urges the public to contact, members or employees of a legislative body for the purpose of proposing, supporting, or opposing legislation, or if the organization advocates the adoption or rejection of legislation. 1] & [2]Anheier, H.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the end of this guided exercise, you’ll be able to articulate investment impact statements like: BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SAVE $79,155 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL CREATE $1,583,100 MORE IN IMPACT OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. Social Impact Calculator.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Prioritize your ROI around the biggest impact, whether thats raising funds, engaging people, or something else. But, if you have a good percentage of your constinuents who are early adopters and tech savvy, its a great place to be. Butterfield was speaking from the floor about the proposed energy bill on the hill.

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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.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

Assess the impact on your operations. How much will your current business processes be impacted? Include compliance in your planning process— and even your budget —to avoid penalties that may require your organization to spend resources on corrective measures after a citation. This is crucial to compliance success.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008. This response is a measure of how eager the environmental field is for a tool that helps better manage projects. I have incredible news: Bookshare.org recently won a $32 million competition. Not Benetech!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

What we really believe is that there is a kind of new consciousness to consumerism in the United States, and as consumerism is sort of evolving, people are really thinking about how to purchase or consume, but at the same time make a constructive impact on the world and express their social or other kinds of values into the world.

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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. Crowd-sourcing ideas.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For example, Lyft doesn’t report total individual fares to drivers at all, and only reports weekly aggregate fares for individual drivers, while a California study by Mission Local found that Uber reports fares to drivers that are measurably lower than the fares actually paid. There has been some movement in this direction.

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