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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit interest in cross-sector collaboration is ramping up due to evaporating resources and increased demand for services. The Bridgespan Group reminds leaders that “cross-sector collaboration is a complicated and time-consuming process, given the complexity of the issues and range of stakeholders involved.” Recommendations.

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Turning Nonprofit Data into Decisions

Qgiv

Reports generated around donor engagement can measure campaign involvement, giving history, and other trends that can help guide your strategic processes. The idea of data analysis is to work smarter, not harder. These metrics measure outcomes for programs which can be compared to previous ones.

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup

Naples, Florida: Collaboration Tools for Board and Remote Workers. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Jasper, Indiana: Web Pages and Hosting Options. Chicago, Illinois: Getting Started Measuring Your Impact When There's No Way You'll Do an RCT. Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Monday, May 8, 2017.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. For a full explanation of the methodology used, reference any Giving USA report.

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The Power Of A Best-In-Class Donor Management System For Faith-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

Reporting and analytics : To measure the impact of your activities and make data-driven decisions. Collaboration difficulties: Collaborating on projects and campaigns can be challenging when team members are using different tools that don’t easily integrate.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

Back in the early 1990s, I had a day job studying nonprofit spending and reporting as part of something called the Nonprofit Overhead Cost Study , a joint project between the Urban Institute and Indiana University. Right now, Charity Navigator is in the midst of beta testing CN2.0 , which is the first step beyond simple ratio analysis.

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Liberating Nonprofit Data for Greater Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, the Foundation Center , GuideStar , the Urban Institute , Johns Hopkins’ Center for Civil Society Studies , and Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy spend millions each year on converting the IRS images of the Form 990 into clean data that a computer can ingest and use to perform analysis and develop visualizations.

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