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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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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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It’s Time to Ask These Hard Questions to Your LMS Vendor

Gyrus

However, organizations must evaluate the system and vendor capabilities to ensure that the LMS is aligned to their learning needs, delivers capable support and value to L&D teams, and can converge and deliver critical insights to improve L&D initiatives. Asking for the laundry list of clients is essential when evaluating LMS vendors.

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It’s Time to Ask These Hard Questions to Your LMS Vendor

Gyrus

However, organizations must evaluate the system and vendor capabilities to ensure that the LMS is aligned to their learning needs, delivers capable support and value to L&D teams, and can converge and deliver critical insights to improve L&D initiatives. Asking for the laundry list of clients is essential when evaluating LMS vendors.

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It’s Time to Ask These Hard Questions to Your LMS Vendor

Gyrus

However, organizations must evaluate the system and vendor capabilities to ensure that the LMS is aligned to their learning needs, delivers capable support and value to L&D teams, and can converge and deliver critical insights to improve L&D initiatives. Asking for the laundry list of clients is essential when evaluating LMS vendors.

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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

sgEngage

When these foundations work together, even briefly, they can leverage these assets to amplify each other’s efforts and meet priority needs that fit their community’s particular culture and environment. . By definition, leanly staffed funders are staffed by just one person or a few people. Rotate hosting and facilitation.

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New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the newest resources, a free online guide called “ The Data Playbook ,” was recently published by the Schusterman Foundation and written by Rella Kaplowitz, Program Officer, Evaluation and Learning. Refinable – adapt to rapidly changing environments. The four key questions are: What data to collect? Meaning Making.

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Taking Action: Fundraising Trends And Best Practices From Bloomerang’s ‘Fundraising Planning and Climate Report’

Bloomerang

Stay agile and be ready to adapt your strategies as needed based on new information or developments in the fundraising environment. My own definition is to trade one set of dilemmas for a better set. Sometimes we definitively solve our fundraising dilemmas, but more commonly we trade them for better ones. And that’s fine.

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