sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2025

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is credited with saying, The only constant in life is change. As leaders in nonprofit finance, it’s our job to be prepared for the inevitability of change. How do we prepare for change? How do you communicate the change in your plans, your budget? Why Do Nonprofit Budgets Change?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 15, 2024

Where we work has changed. How we work has changed. And our orientation to productivity has changed. Add to this the generational shifts and changing expectations that millennial and Gen Z workers have, and it is a recipe for something big. Heck, many people have left work completely or shifted careers.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 16, 2023

Dynamic planning, namely the capability to look ahead and replan based on the flow of the conversation, is an essential ingredient for the making of engaging conversations with the deeper, open-ended interactions that users expect. To begin, the assistant steers the conversation to sharks via a sound quiz.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2021

A report from the Equitable Evaluation Initiative (EEI) and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations highlights how foundations are working to integrate an equity lens into their evaluation practices. These efforts support the decisions and subsequent actions required to make change and step into the unknown.

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Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

They feel their philanthropic investments are de-risked when they evaluate opportunities as a group with unique perspectives and when they can experience community building in the process. But as the head of my family foundation, I believe we have to start conversations around wealth at a younger age.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

In some instances, you can change the order of these steps and those organizations with TechSoup or Google for Nonprofits accounts can skip those steps. All accounts created after January 2018 must have conversion tracking in place in Google Ads and need to have at least one meaningful conversion per month.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. We thought we could help our colleagues prepare for that disruption by gathering advice from people who greet change as an unexpected advantage. Be the disruption.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Responsive grantmaking means assessing and pivoting to address ever-changing needs. Here are five ways this organization changed to stay connected to its community during times of crisis. Two Ten is using a survey to evaluate their processes and remove barriers so they are continually improving their grantee experience.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Theres also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. If we continue trying to measure social change by financial criteria alone, well never have a full view of the inputs and processes necessary to create lasting impact. A one-word change to a familiar tune changes the whole song.

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Towards Data Science

MAY 7, 2024

A list to make evaluating ELT/ETL tools a bit less daunting Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash We’ve all been there: you’ve attended (many!) Create a rubric You can find a million articles on evaluation criteria for data integration tooling (I really like this one !),

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. To help you better review submissions so that you are set up for success, here are 10 items you should look for as you evaluate your grant applications. Program Timeline. Measurement Plan.

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Candid

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Then, based on our findings, we implemented new initiatives to respond to the needs of our staff, such as “Career Conversations,” which requires managers to discuss career plans with all direct reports, not just those with whom they already had a mentor-mentee relationship.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

Despite the progress, these assistants still face limitations in supporting conversational interactions in mobile user interfaces (UIs), where many user tasks are performed. Furthermore, there is a broad spectrum of conversational interactions that can occur on mobile UIs. LLM uses its prior knowledge to help summarize the screens.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In conversations with digital advertising agencies, they’ll admit that some clients simply throw money at them because they have a fluid budget. That makes it challenging for the agency to show adequate ROI or valuable conversions to their client when there is no strategy behind the advertising spend. To See The Big Picture.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

This comprehensive exploration of your digital systems could include evaluating security, network functions, system management, user experience, and overall performance. Acknowledge Change Isn’t it enough that you did your research and purchased a tech stack that fits your needs? We start with a conversation.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2013

You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or below. —–. The new book I co-authored with Allyson Kapin, Social Change Anytime Everywhere , looks at the way nonprofit organizations can use multichannel strategies for advocacy, fundraising, and community building.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Philanthropy and knowledge work have a long history, from demonstration projects to evaluation to the encouragement of learning communities and grantee learning networks. Questions are instrumental to successful grantmaking that focuses on change. Knowledge processes always start with some explicit or underlying questions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 3, 2022

Privacy-related changes in technology platforms (like browsers and mobile operating systems), regulatory actions, and consumer preferences are forcing the digital marketing industry to rethink how they collect and analyze consumer data to understand how well they’re connecting with their audiences. And for good reason. I’m guessing most.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 5, 2021

But what’s important to understand is that when this feature becomes available to users, your open rates will change. Clicks and Conversions Matter. Open rates are also crucial for evaluating your send times. However, with the changes Apple announced, your open rate numbers may prove to be inaccurate. .

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Evaluate if these metrics change when you adjust your email frequency. Email conversion rate: The percentage of recipients who complete an intended action after opening your email, like donating or registering to volunteer. Average email conversion rates for nonprofits vary widely based on email type. Appeal to emotion.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Conduct a Risk Assessment Evaluate your organization to identify which processes would be most impacted by a climate event. Plan for these delays and ensure grantees know that you are aware of the challenges they face. Prepare for the Next Climate Event Preparation is key to mitigating the impact of future climate events.

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.orgSource

JULY 22, 2024

Understand the Imperative To keep pace with member expectations, acknowledging that disruption and change are business as usual is critical. Self-evaluation isn’t easy. Organize the Effort A well-defined oversight and change management structure ensures that the right people are ready to lead that charge. This post is Part Two.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

How do you get your appeals in front of your Facebook audience despite the significant decline in organic reach and the resulting reduction in engagement caused by changes to the News Feed algorithm? 1) Set up a conversion event and create a campaign. The key, though, is doing it in a way that delivers maximum ROI.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Considering that most see fewer than 5% of free users move to paid plans, even a slight improvement in conversion can translate to significant revenue gains. Successful enterprises make this evaluation an ongoing exercise. While your overall conversion average may be 5%, there can be segments converting at 10% or 1%.

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.orgSource

JUNE 10, 2024

Start Talking “We can’t create change without support from our supervisors,” Jennifer advised. This has the potential to be a challenging conversation. These conversations can give your space-making perspective and help you become more adept at redistributing the load.” Empower Your Team Give your team license to help.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

But that all changed in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic forced digital onto the front burner. Perhaps you’re already having conversations with your team about how you can begin on the path to digital transformation. Suddenly, digital transformation wasn’t just an aspirational goal; it was a mission-critical investment.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

All board members reviewed the organization, top to bottom, made changes, and seven years later, they are back on solid ground. Decision-Making: Board members must have strong decision-making skills to evaluate different options, consider potential consequences, and make informed and timely decisions for the organization.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 17, 2025

Published on March 17, 2025 7:11 PM GMT Note: this is a research note based on observations from evaluating Claude Sonnet 3.7. Were sharing the results of these work-in-progress investigations as we think they are timely and will be informative for other evaluators and decision-makers. Claude Sonnet 3.7 We find that Sonnet 3.7

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

Sentiment analysis for enhanced communication: Advanced AI tools can also evaluate the tone and mood of messages and responses—providing valuable insights into audience emotions and how they perceive content. In the ever-changing world of nonprofit fundraising, engaging with supporters and donors in meaningful ways is key.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

However, producing these tools can be hard for digital makers, and evaluating their appropriateness can be challenging for the organizations that seek to use them. A common framework can support these conversations. The goal of a framework for building public good technology is not to evaluate the quality of technology.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

That dramatic entrance has changed the role of CTOs. If you’ve participated in a website redesign or AMS conversion, you know it is not always an easy process for either the experts or the novices, especially when teams are unaccustomed to working across disciplines. Try taking these EI quizzes for a more comprehensive self-evaluation.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The introduction of ChatGPT from Open AI makes for jittery breakroom conversation. What can leaders do to prepare their employees to stay at the top of their game when the game is constantly changing? There’s a change going on in business. But when the chatbot can write an essay, that’s another story.

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.orgSource

MAY 9, 2023

If you want to change perspectives, open the windows. A more equitable attitude toward participation allows people who might have been previously ignored during conversations about innovation to step forward,” Liz noted. Contract employees are a good way to evaluate which project configurations are conducive to more efficient work.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The entire social sector learned a valuable lesson in 2020: even the most rigorous planning can’t insulate us from the need to be flexible and adapt to the changing world around us. That’s partly because underlying trends that have been driving the nonprofit sector for years have completely changed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

How has your investment strategy changed? The 20% of what we do keeps changing every few years because of market trends and tech innovations, but, by and large, the 80% has remained the same for nearly 17 years. How do you evaluate the potential of a startup in these sectors before making an investment?

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