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Can You Measure the Impact of Capacity Building for Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Other areas include: communications, executive transition, evaluation/learning, networking/convening, and professional development. To answer the questions, they conducted a landscape analysis of existing research on the impacts of capacity building on organizational strength and social impact. Presentation slides.

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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

The Vera Institute (2015) offers this definition of social impact bonds: “In a social impact bond, private investors fund an intervention through an intermediary organization—and the government repays the funder only if the program achieves certain goals, which are specified at the outset of the initiative and assessed by an independent evaluator.”.

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Finding a Nonprofit Partner: Who is the Right One?

BoardAssist

In order to understand the incidence and success of formal nonprofit collaborations , The Bridgespan Group and The Lodestar Foundation collaborated in a 2014 research study. According to the Bridgespan study, funders “need to tread cautiously” when recommending partners because they would not want their word to be taken as “dictate.”

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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value. Does not know where to start.

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Arts 2.0: Brooklyn Museum Click Exhibit Results: It's not a contest, it's a study in curation of the crowds.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next phase was crowd-sourced rating process - where anyone could be a curator evaluating the aesthetic quality and relevance to the exhibition theme. Here's a summary of the impressive participation stats for each phase. View the Evaluation Statistics.)It Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project when it launched here.

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4 Things Large Nonprofits Miss When Redesigning their Website

Forum One

Whether the visitor is a known or unknown user, the experience is tailored to fit their profile dynamically through data analysis, behavior, user attributes, and characteristics to create a more meaningful experience. Creating a personalization plan Personalization is key to standing out in an increasingly crowded digital media environment.

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Essential Strategies for Your Foundation’s Next Website Redesign

Forum One

Whether the visitor is known or unknown, the experience is tailored to fit their profile dynamically through data analysis, behavior, user attributes, and characteristics to create a more meaningful experience. In summary. Creating a personalization plan.