Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This was fairly early in the Foundation’s exploration of networks and Madeleine came in to discuss her approach to evaluating networks. Fast forward five years, Madeleine has published a new guide on evaluating networks. A Guide to Evaluating Networks – Guest Post By Madeleine Taylor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Others receive grant funding from governmental agencies, private foundations, and community funds. Raising funds and winning grants is difficult and requires significant staff time and resources. Similarly, a grant might have specific conditions like the types of activities it can fund or allowances for overhead expenses.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This allows you to compare your planned versus actual financial activities and evaluate how closely your organization was able to stick to its budget. This means distinctly separating net assets with donor restrictions, such as grant funding, from those without donor restrictions to better understand the liquidity of your resources.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

This is the third article in a three-part series on finding the best consultant for your nonprofit. Frankly, the search, evaluation, interview, and selection process can be very rigorous and time-consuming. Has the organization’s policies, practices, and overall culture been evaluated through the lens of a JEDI approach? .

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation? Who decides what is measured?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Having a framework is the magic wand to writing a successful grant proposal. Most people don’t write grants with this in mind. Most grant writers just start with long responses to grant applications, instead of first setting up their own plan. This 6-step GRANTS Writing Formula can help!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Is the donor renewal rate low? It’s easier than it sounds.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2021

Then, proceed to share the project outline and description through multiple channels: Nonprofit consultant directories – Using a nonprofit consultant directory is the best thing you can do to get a big pool of qualified candidates. Others organize by region (or just as consultants) without regard to specialty area. .

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Candid

JULY 13, 2023

While Candid is working to reduce that burden broadly, here is one specific way we are trying to help: by providing sample grant proposal documents. In this blog, we share the major types of grant proposal documents, their components, and free sample resources to show you what a successful version of each one looks like.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. We are here to talk about “Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle.”

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. Factoring in the nonprofit organization’s size, capacity, and budget – making sure that the demand for data and evaluation is commensurate.

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sgEngage

APRIL 21, 2025

If your nonprofit has ever tried to revamp its website , acquire a grant, or prepare for an audit, you know there are some roles for which your team simply isnt prepared. For this reason, nonprofits often seek expertise from external consultants and vendors.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The McGregor Funds Director of Learning & Reporting, Vanessa Samuelson, puts it this way, “Our grant partners and their communities hold the vision, wisdom, and know-how to move towards our collective aspirations for a more just world. One grantee noted, I’m a big fan of multiple-year grants.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

Review Systematically How do you evaluate whether your organization’s data is pristine, polluted, or somewhere in the murky in-between? Bob Seiner, who is president and principal of KIK Consulting & Education Services, and the publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter offers this performance-oriented definition.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Like it or not, grants are a necessity for nearly all nonprofits to stay alive and do good work. A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. Evaluation Plan. based on the types of projects they fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

Paula Goldman shared some thoughts about foundation intent in using social media, particularly amplifying grantees work and thought leadership. In addition, Kathy Reich, mentioned the potential of using social media to help inform and improve grant-making strategy. The last evaluation of this work was a decade ago.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2011

Tatro Consulting. The answer is not "let the grant writer do it!". an effective results-oriented program evaluation system? As you implement the evaluation, discuss the findings with them and together create meaning from the data. posted by. Tatro, Ph.D. , ASU Lodestar Center. NMI Instructor /. Tatro, held this.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

In my more than 20 years as a philanthropy grants manager, nonprofit executive, and consultant, Ive seen how technology decisions can either amplify equity or entrench existing barriers. According to a Candid survey , 23% of grantmakers say they dont accept AI-generated grant proposals. Fund accessible AI initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod. or “collective impact,” this work is characterized by a very different mindset, approach, and set of tools than traditional grant-making or nonprofit work, which has historically focused on supporting programs and organizations, and scaling those up. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The Foundation has teamed up with an evaluation consultant, TCC Group, to figure out if working wikily can enhance the quality of learning as the OE Goldmine Research project and the Foundation’s OE program review move forward. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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Blue Fox

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

"Getting actionable financial data for grant writing all comes down to the setup of your financial systems." You know that you need to finish this grant request, but you’re stuck. The narrative is coming along, but your roadblock is the financial justification for the grant. And you’re right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

Evaluation and Learning sessions help grantmakers and their partners better use evaluation to foster learning and make real-time improvements in their work. Cindy Rizzo, Senior Director, Grantmaking and Evaluation, Arcus Foundation. David Colby, Vice President, Research and Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2025

What’s clear is that a nonprofit’s resilience requires regular evaluation of its technology stack, the cost of letting antiquated systems linger is too great in the midst of a turbulent macro and micro environment. But how should a nonprofit approach evaluating their technology? The answer to that is in two parts.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Part of the challenge is that any update to the taxonomy requires an update to our autocoding algorithm, one of the major sources of coding of our data, especially transactions (such as grants). We ended up evaluating at least five models before landing on one we felt represented a significant improvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

As a technology trainer, capacity builder, and consultant working with nonprofits, I always ask the fishing question, especially since I work in the area of emerging technologies that often falls prey to Shiny Object Syndrome — ( Google + anyone? What you think? How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Evaluation and Learning sessions help grantmakers and their partners better use evaluation to foster learning and make real-time improvements in their work. Cindy Rizzo, Senior Director, Grantmaking and Evaluation, Arcus Foundation. David Colby, Vice President, Research and Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Data analysis is also critical to their success: they constantly evaluate response rates (to campaigns/ emails, etc), to understand what is working, and make adjustments as they go – it’s a process of continual iteration. Running MomsRising is as much a science as it is an art. Can you think of a way to apply it to your work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

.” The participants were a cross-disciplinary group and included people who work at different foundations in the areas of evaluation, communication, social media, and programs as well as people who work for nonprofits and as consultants who work in evaluation, social media, network analysis, data scientists, and others.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Develop a fundraising plan that includes fundraising goals and fundraising methods including grants, corporate and individual donations, and in-kind contributions. . Retain or consult with a bookkeeper to create accounting records and financial reports. . Develop an evaluation and performance model. .

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Whole Whale

APRIL 24, 2024

Given this competitive landscape it can make a lot of sense to look for fundraising consultants and firms to help your nonprofit. Fundraising Consultants The following are some of the trusted nonprofit consulting network Nonprofit.ist. Mark Goldstein | Communication Mark If you need a grant writer, my team and I can help.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. Actually, a client had a grant proposal, and it included the consultant’s “theory of practice&# which of course is something that most organizational development/effectiveness type consultants have, but rather few technology consultants have.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Nonprofits looking to reassess or develop a new technical strategy should consider partnering with a nonprofit technology consulting firm. Nonprofit technology consultants can help you complete a technology assessment, develop a new technical strategy, implement new systems, and provide reliable ongoing support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

I went to the Learning in Public session expecting to hear that the process the Packard Foundation used to evaluate their capacity building work was wildly successful. In true GEO style, Kathy Reich and Jared Raynor, the evaluator from TCC Group shared what worked and what didn’t…and what they plan to do in the future.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Community leadership, based on my research and consulting with foundations, combines the defined concepts of collective leadership, civic leadership, and community engagement into a comprehensive approach that seeks to work alongside communities—geographic, identity-based, or faith-based—to create a positive change.

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sgEngage

JULY 12, 2022

Many foundations have turned to outside consultants with expertise in this area to help guide them through the beginning of their DEI journey. Knowing that applicants are also prioritizing DEI is important, and there are now questions to that end on the grant application. 2. Internal Processes: Grantmakers Must Look Inward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2012

Note From Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the GEO Conference (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) with Kathy Reich, Director, Organizational Effectiveness Program at the Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group, that helped OE analyze its “goldmine” of grantee data.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 30, 2024

You know that securing grants will be a great way to fund your nonprofit’s programs and diversify your revenue streams. In this guide, we’ll walk you through those four main types of grants available to nonprofits and break down everything you need to know! Securing a grant is only step one. That’s why we’re here to help.

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