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The 5-star rating system is terrible for gig workers. Here’s a simple solution

Fast Company Tech

A small gap with huge consequences Existing research has shown that when customers submit evaluations, individual workers from ethnic minority groups are more likely to be negatively evaluated, even if their performance and quality is the same. We often take for granted how apps are designed, says Botelho.

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Grantseeking Basics: Developing a Grant Project

Tech Soup

Like it or not, grants are a necessity for nearly all nonprofits to stay alive and do good work. 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!) Outcomes 3.

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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

Commitment to putting in the necessary effort is crucial; I look for those ready to invest their time and energy into achieving our shared objectives, demonstrating resilience, perseverance, and a proactive attitude. Joy Hinkelman from Wellness Center for Older Adults Can They Help Increase Our Sustainability and Growth Potential?

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Research Friday: Does your nonprofit have an outcome-driven culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately.

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Measuring Impact: The First Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it wasn’t until Active Voice brought on a full time evaluator that were we able to identify and actually measure the kind of shifts we think films can contribute to. But they don’t necessarily think of this as evaluation. Like it or not, evaluation is a crusty kind of term. Maya’s film may have indeed had impact.

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. Grants are about taking it scale. Government funders have a congressional mandate for evaluation of anything that is funded and to use quantitative methods and research analysis. That the old metrics aren't working.

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