ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nonprofit interest in cross-sector collaboration is ramping up due to evaporating resources and increased demand for services. The Bridgespan Group reminds leaders that “cross-sector collaboration is a complicated and time-consuming process, given the complexity of the issues and range of stakeholders involved.” Recommendations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Salesforce.org Partners and Staff collaborating at our last in-person Partner Summit in 2019. Check out just a few of the sessions our partners are delivering: Demystifying Impact Measurement and Management on Salesforce. Do we recognize the signs of these problems? There is something for everyone!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What is your measurement pilot?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This allowed us to create measurable goals backed by actionable data and to personalize our approach to donor engagement. Whether it’s managing donor relationships, tracking progress, or measuring outcomes, leveraging the right technology can transform your organization and help you achieve goals that once seemed out of reach.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Architecture is, at its core, about problem-solving: balancing aesthetics, functional needs, and technical constraints to create effective buildings and environments. And Gensler rolled out its Product Sustainability Standards, providing for many in the industry a clear way to measure the carbon impact of the interior products they select.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

I had the opportunity to speak with both Gallucci and Roy about this unique funder collaborative and more specifically about how the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education would measure the impact of their investments. This is a hopeful time in the long arc of inclusive education.

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Blue Avocado

JULY 16, 2024

What should be measured? Don’t get me wrong: Aspirational language is great for identifying what the value is , but it can be difficult to measure employees against this standard. Demonstrated behaviors might include: We offer constructive solutions to identified problems. We do not see problems, only opportunities.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

ECT can be pivotal in resolving conflicts, improving collaboration, nurturing leadership skills, and building trust among team members. Strong workplace communication is necessary to develop leadership skills, improve professional growth, facilitate collaboration, reduce conflicts and misunderstandings, and boost employee engagement.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

One nonprofit leader shared six lessons learned from a bad board experience organizational policies to help your nonprofit set expectations, prevent dysfunction, and avoid a laundry list of problems. It presents a serious and systemic problem but it doesnt dwell on hand-wringing and finger-pointing.

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DataRobot

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In the final installment of this blog series examine how Machine Learning Operations ( MLOps ) allows governments to easily deploy, monitor, and update models in production, paving the way to AI with measurable results. . What is MLOps? MLops enables state and local governments to do just that — to put AI into action. Request a Demo.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Collaboration via social media has enabled the program to come together and launch. Measuring success of social media in your work can be a tricky thing to do, especially as we all explore and experiment with the tools every day and many tools and processes are still very new.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Most associations don’t have an easy way to measure member engagement across all their different systems and touch points. And even when measured, it can be tricky to know how to use engagement scores to improve member experience and operational results.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2025

Theres an opportunity to expand upon what funders consider to be the best measures of success. Qualitative data in the form of interviews, focus groups, and anecdotes from grantees and their communities are similarly valuable for measuring the success of advancing funder activities, including well-being initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Europe and Latin America. Report Out.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO and co-founder of Twoodo , the ultimate online collaboration tool. “I Remoteness just adds problems. But distributiveness solves a lot of problems, including that of being remote. Many people with laptop jobs disagree that working remotely causes problems. Measurable. Measurable.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious. What do you measure every day, week, month, year?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Collective Impact is a methodology designed to facilitate cross-sector collaborations in order to move the needle on important issues. Collective Impact requires collaborating organizations to: Identify a common goal: Understand a problem and the pathway to solve it together.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

metriport merrily measures your me verse. TechCrunch is recruiting recruiters for TechCrunch Experts, an ongoing project where we ask top professionals about problems and challenges that are common in early-stage startups. The headline? Metriport helps you take your quantified self to the next increment. TechCrunch Experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Co-authored by the Institute’s Executive Director John Esterle, Malka Kopell and Palma Strand, the article discusses a new project named “The Civity Networks Project,” a collaborative effort between the institute and the Silicon Valley Community. The article makes a compelling case for funders to focus on relationships rather than networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

” We’ll hear some brief lightning talks from participants and experts on technology planning, organizational culture, and the human and technical sides of impact measurement and reflect on what it means for our organizations. Today’s nonprofit leaders embrace collective creativity.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Ensure teamwork is a central part of your company from the start – this could mean adding a clause about collaboration and inclusion in your mission statement or having weekly team-building activities. Set your teams on the right path by delivering the big picture message and measurable outcomes – leave the rest up to them.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Let’s explore the common problems faced by faith-based organizations like yours, and how you can better serve your mission by consolidating all of your needs under a single DMS. The problem: Managing a patchwork of disconnected tools You may be juggling an array of tools and systems to manage your daily operations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. As toolmakers, our ultimate impact is measured by what our users create with our products. To do so, we definitely need your help. And we have even more improvements in our development pipeline.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

With the amazing advances in machine learning (ML) and quantum computing, we now have powerful new tools that enable us to act on our curiosity, collaborate in new ways, and radically accelerate progress toward breakthrough scientific discoveries. It's an incredibly exciting time to be a scientist.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 22, 2024

The competition is open to organizations and collaborations working in any field, anywhere in the world, according to Chris Cardona, MacArthur’s managing director, discovery, exploration, and programs. Proposals must identify a problem and offer a solution that promises significant and durable change. The $640 million was nearly 2.56

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

It talks about how to use today’s tools to build a collaborative culture and using them to find ways for individuals and organizations to team up in building new solutions. They can help people with different knowledge, skills, and points of view to tackle a shared problem, see old things in new ways, or challenge the status quo.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As AI and automation handle tasks once dependent on human creativity, intuition, and problem-solving, we risk outsourcing not just labor but also our intellectual and emotional core. AI may offer convenience, but convenience can come at the cost of resilience, problem-solving, and self-reflectionskills critical to effective leadership.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2012

You are cordially invited to start tracking, measuring, evaluating, and sharing! You would get a clearer picture of the issues causing hunger in your community—and be that much clearer about how to tackle the problem. If you’ve been waiting for an invitation to dive into data, this is it. I would love to see that map!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Right now the app is focused on the foot scanning process and the resulting 3D foot models — showing shoppers their feet in a 3D point cloud view, another photorealistic view as well as providing granular foot measurements. “Problem 1: When you buy shoes online, you might be unfamiliar with your size in the brand or model.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Tableau Community has taught me countless lessons, the most important being: When leaders nurture a supportive, collaborative data community, it strengthens and benefits their organization’s Data Culture, yielding successful business outcomes. They foster engagement and learning through collaboration and sharing.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Data silos are a common problem across all industries and can cause serious pain points, especially as data volume increases. Restricted research: Inconsistent data restricts healthcare teams’ ability to perform meaningful research and problem-solve. This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results.

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DataRobot

JULY 21, 2022

Data scientists need to understand the business problem and the project scope to assess feasibility, set expectations, define metrics, and design project blueprints. Close collaboration and alignment across business and technical teams will help ensure success. Define the business problem. Define project scope.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Technical strategy is much more than just setting up a new website or picking the latest software—it’s about developing a holistic understanding of the entire ecosystem within which the organization operates and leveraging technology to solve problems innovatively.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Let’s explore the common problems faced by nonprofits like yours and how you can better serve your mission by consolidating all of your needs into a single platform. The problem: managing a patchwork of disconnected tools You may be juggling an array of tools and systems to manage your daily operations.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 30, 2023

The key to both is a deeper understanding of ML data — how to engineer training datasets that produce high quality models and test datasets that deliver accurate indicators of how close we are to solving the target problem. How do we solve this problem and enable quality-driven “data acquisition”?

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Understanding Community Leadership Community leadership involves actively engaging with local stakeholders, identifying shared goals, and working collaboratively towards achieving them. Collective leadership is a collaborative approach that embraces shared decision-making, participation, and the collective wisdom of diverse perspectives.

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