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World’s Best Intern: Advice from Nonprofits to Interns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve just finished teaching a class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The grad students in my class will be doing an internship as part of their field work, being placed in international organizations in the US and around the world.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. What attitudes toward evaluation are present? Answer questions like: Did participants’ attitudes, knowledge and skills change? The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Strategies to diversify nonprofit boards to yield success

ASU Lodestar Center

It is demanding of an organizational cultural change that will adopt inclusivity in all aspects, both internally and externally. Phase 1: Triple A’s - awareness, attitude and action. It is a good idea to have specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-based - SMART - goals.

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Why nonprofits should deploy artificial intelligence to achieve fundraising success

ASU Lodestar Center

The International Society for Third Sector Research published a recent paper that summarizes why nonprofit leaders must use technology to connect with stakeholders in the emerging digital, civil society. Organizations should build infrastructure and staffing around internal expertise with AI. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. AI fundraising.

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Goal Setting for Your Nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

These are measured in weeks or months and support the long-term goals. These are measured in years and originate in the mission statement. The strategy may be to remove the staff member and replace them with someone with different experience - or maybe a better attitude. What are the short-term goals? What are long-term goals?

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

ASU Lodestar Center

Outcomes usually imply changes in behavior, condition, skills, attitudes or knowledge in the individual, community or other target population. Funders are increasingly conditioning grants upon the delivery of specific measures. This approach builds internal capability while also offering a desired level of objectivity.

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Shameless Ask, Looking for SXSW 2012 Nonprofit Votes!

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Let the voting begin … Making Social Media Measurement Sexy. Leading nonprofits practitioners will share all about how they use measurement to improve strategy and prove results. The session will strip away the mystery of measuring engagement, donor conversions, and on the ground social change. –> Vote Now !