Whole Whale

APRIL 24, 2024

Aspire Research Group The Munshine Group The Covenant Group The Phoenix Philanthropy Group Capstone Advancement Partners Focus Fundraising Orr Group The Prospect Finder Chase Solutions, Inc. I often partner with organizations to provide tailored development plans, grant writing services, and prospect research. Katherine Ngaruiya, Ph.D.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. We talked about our beliefs and experiences with ideas of truth, of research, of story.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Angela Francis , Senior Associate. Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2018

My first experience with modeling happened at the University of Washington development office in the fall of 1992. I arrived as the freshly-minted director of prospect research. In fact, most reactions resembled pity: “Poor naïve researcher, trying to mess up our fundraising expertise with science.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

Experts are not sure when it will be safe to hold large gatherings again, which hinders nonprofits that rely on an events-based structure to generate donations. Nonprofits are reimagining funding models and will have to think innovatively to ensure their mission continues. Why pursue a social enterprise model?

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Gyrus

JULY 27, 2023

However, choosing an LMS can be tough — it’s important to research what you want out of an LMS before you make your purchase. Understanding Your Needs and Goals Identifying Your Organization’s Specific Requirements Before implementing any specific structural changes, you must look into what your organization needs.

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Gyrus

JULY 27, 2023

However, choosing an LMS can be tough — it’s important to research what you want out of an LMS before you make your purchase. Understanding Your Needs and Goals Identifying Your Organization’s Specific Requirements Before implementing any specific structural changes, you must look into what your organization needs.

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Gyrus

JULY 27, 2023

However, choosing an LMS can be tough — it’s important to research what you want out of an LMS before you make your purchase. Understanding Your Needs and Goals Identifying Your Organization’s Specific Requirements Before implementing any specific structural changes, you must look into what your organization needs.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Instead of manually consolidating data from across sources, you can instead have it all stored and standardized in one place to streamline analysis and interpretation. Research top providers. You should be able to tailor data models, reports, and dashboards to address your organization’s unique requirements and objectives.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 1, 2024

Energy resilience is the capacity of communities, structures, and power grids to rebound from power interruptions and maintain functionality. However, traditional learning models, often rigid and geographically restricted, leave many behind. Let’s explore this in more detail. What is Energy Resilience?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Gartner’s research focuses on how technology can help restore and strengthen an organization’s financial health. Determine which tasks require high-level creativity, analysis, or other human intelligence—and which might be automated. With new technology comes new policies and procedures for how to accomplish our core work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

” But after doing research , we learned that nonprofits rarely filled in the year 4 or year 5 – not due to laziness, but because the world has gotten more complex.” He said that strategic plan is more wishful thinking compared to a business plan that chocked with analysis. Market: Is there a need for this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders. The recent election proved that rising income inequality and structural economic shifts are the critical issues of our time. Bridging the Gaps.

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Create Philanthropy Alexa Local 100

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

This can manifest in various ways, such as: Rigid course structures Inflexible learning platform Lack of options for personalized learning paths Key challenges: Limited engagement: Learners are less likely to engage with L&D programs that do not cater to their specific needs, interests, and learning styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

This week at the Packard Foundation, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The model has a natural appeal. It should be clear to all involved that the learning process will be exploratory and emergent rather than tightly structured and directive. Unlocking the Potential of Peer Learning – Guest Post by Noah Flower. Field-wide capacity is never going to be built one organization at a time.

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Learning San Francisco Structure Knowledge Management 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Earlier this year, a group of informal science researchers, led by Rick Bonney of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, published an extremely useful report on public participation in science research (PPSR). In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

” Professional networking gone wrong includes a mismanagement of structure, relationships, and behavior. But what really matters is structure: Core connections must bridge smaller, more-diverse kinds of groups and cross hierarchical, organizational, functional, and geographic lines. List them and do an analysis based on: Age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes. Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

These finance models rely upon nonprofits to deliver their programs, yet there is a dearth of guidance for nonprofit leaders to understand the opportunities – and risks – they represent. The Philanthropic Consequence of Government Grants to Nonprofit Organizations: A Meta-Analysis.” Brookings Institution. Retrieved from [link].

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Program Management South Africa Evaluation 58

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2017

Data is fragmented across multiple systems and structures. Target Analytics’ research across thousands of nonprofit organizations reveals that a lot of money is being left on the table. The analysis revealed that an average upgrade capacity of $52 was possible for annual donors and a potential lift $1,197 existed for major donors.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

These platforms serve as centralized platforms to streamline the collection, analysis, and reporting of data related to a company’s social, environmental, and ethical performance. The goal of this technology is to help companies structure valuable CSR programs to support the causes that are important to the business and its employees.

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Software Business Guide Companies 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

Ever since I’ve been recommending it and teaching it to nonprofits after being inspired by Holly Minch’s model in 2011. (I Since I use an idea dashboard to develop my content — it includes links, general structure for the blog post, format, etc. My answer: Yes!

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Content Measure Organization Strategy 102

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2015

As a fundraising analytics consultant, I see a variety of development program structures and fundraising strategies. The results of a predictive modeling and/or wealth screening endeavor can improve programs and strategies of all types – Well… that is if you smartly utilize the results of your data.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 31, 2017

The question then turns to this: how can nonprofits structure their governance based on their organizational and lifecycle needs? Research has shown that organizational competence, or lack thereof, is linked to board of director performance (Brown & Iverson, 2004, p. 378) (Brown, 2005, p. 330) (Bradshaw, 2009, p. 1996, 370-73).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Clear signs of what this new model are all over the place.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Rewriting strengthens logic, structure, and transitions. Overall, this methodology structures regular critical analysis of output to curate higher quality through ongoing refinement. Strengthening Coherence Identify ways the previous reply could have improved flow, transitions, and logical structure.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

This can manifest in various ways, such as: Rigid course structures Inflexible learning platform Lack of options for personalized learning paths Key challenges: Limited engagement: Learners are less likely to engage with L&D programs that do not cater to their specific needs, interests, and learning styles.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Enhanced Data Analysis AI can also analyze data more quickly and effectively. Using statistics and modeling techniques, predictive analytics helps predict future outcomes. Amazon Comprehend Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing service from AWS that offers advanced text analysis and insights.

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Tools Amazon Analytics Language 60

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. Lots of research shows that donors don’t want the organization to spend money on free merchandise. Observe your community research as it happens (polling, focus groups, town halls). Allow voting for the board (if you have this membership model).

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In this article, we’ll use Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model to outline a nonprofit change management plan that your organization can implement with minimal hassle and fuss. Instances where change management might be needed include adopting a new technology solution, product line, compensation structure, or standard operating procedure.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants. It’s just a structured approach walking you through and it’s not necessarily, you know, the where all be all. And that starts kind of with a readiness assessment and a gap analysis.

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Campaign Video Project Alabama 92

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

This can manifest in various ways, such as: Rigid course structures Inflexible learning platform Lack of options for personalized learning paths Key challenges: Limited engagement: Learners are less likely to engage with L&D programs that do not cater to their specific needs, interests, and learning styles.

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Phase Integration LCMS Training 52

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Now, I know that people focus on number two, which is application development, but I really like to focus on number one, which is mostly what we’re going to be going over here, which is the research and strategic planning because that’s really getting you set up for success. It’s prospect research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Government and philanthropy leaders talk today about this groundbreaking research, and you can tweet @AspenInstitute to join the conversation. But rather than replicating each other’s efforts and then charging for access to the results, these groups could follow a more collaborative, open model.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

So that requires a massive shift, and we're working towards building a more local economy in the Bay Area on a policy level by working to galvanize municipal response and developing models of localization that can be replicated by other regions. We work in the nine county region of the Bay Area. I mean, who's not to like a garden on a roof?

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