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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. ” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Formative Evaluation.

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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data.

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4 Tips for Effective Wealth & Philanthropic Screening

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Since major gifts are, by definition, the largest individual donations your nonprofit receives, they typically come from your wealthiest donors. Let’s begin by discussing which data points are most important to identify and analyze. AI is constantly evolving, so ensure your organization commits to using it responsibly.

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#11NPD: Impact, Brand, and Business Model

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In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Jara Dean-Coffey discussed impact, with a focus on how organizations should be evaluative , rather than simply doing evaluation.

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Managing eLearning Podcast: Episode 7 Summary & Highlights

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To kick things off, Jon and Matt ask for a definition of the Learning Business Maturity Model. Furthermore, the model measures an organization’s progress in 4 stages: static, reactive, proactive, and innovative. Finally, the model seeks to improve an organization’s “3 Ds”: dialogue, diagnosis, and direction.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

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Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will. Organizations continually operate in “not enough” mode and are expected to try to make the best of their limited resources and create (and evaluate) the most impact possible.

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