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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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Don’t Set and Forget Technology–Regular Assessments Deliver Peak Performance

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A technology assessment is a performance evaluation of your IT systems. The purpose of an IT assessment is to evaluate whether your systems’ functionality and efficiency are in alignment with organizational goals and strategy. Even if your systems are crushing their benchmarks, there are still good reasons for a technology assessment.

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The Essential Nonprofit Fundraiser’s Guide to Mobile Giving

Bloomerang

According to the M+R Benchmarks report , fundraising mobile messages generate an average of $92 in revenue for every 1,000 messages sent. QR code donations Another effective way to facilitate mobile giving, especially when donors interact with physical marketing materials, is through QR code donations.

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Measuring Impact: Feature Article from the Latest Issue of NTEN:Change

Amy Sample Ward

This person will take the helm on laying out tasks in a sequence, informing other staff of their roles and assignments, and providing assistance to people as they complete their parts of the evaluation. Consider using an outside facilitator to help develop questions and protocol and to help identify themes from your data.

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How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m very excited for this learning experience because over the two years my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has focused on going deep on facilitating peer learning for grantees on measuring outcomes for their networks with social media while balancing and upholding the principles of being networked.

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How to Build Trust in AI

DataRobot

Transformative technologies such as autonomous vehicles will be possible only when there are clear methods and benchmarks to establish trust in AI systems. At DataRobot , we define the benchmark of AI maturity as AI you can trust. When it comes to evaluating the trustworthiness of AI systems, we look at multiple facets of performance.

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