Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. If you think of your training as making a soup, your participant survey is like the food critic’s review of the soup. Formative Evaluation.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At a bare minimum, the RFP should include: A description of your organization and your work, Why your nonprofit is issuing the RFP, The project requirements along with the software and services you need, and Your proposal submission, review, follow up, and selection process. Your budget (please share it!)

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Mike Richards gives you this clue—“It revolves around mission, vision, and values.” Crafting a statement with a more ambitious destination but fewer directions about how to get there will give your organization room to develop in unexpected ways. That’s why they also deserve frequent exploration and evaluation.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But as we kick off 2023 and look back at what worked well in 2022, an excellent tool for evaluating donor retention is to look at the donors that gave last year but unfortunately not this year (LYBUNT) and work on engaging them with new opportunities to give. If you don’t, they will forget about your organization and stop giving.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. In a Harvard Business Review Article , authors Robert S. If you’re wondering whether there are gaps in your safety net, ask your colleagues to share their documents to evaluate what you might be missing.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

A nonprofit technology assessment is an evaluation of the digital maturity of your organization. We’re going to walk through the steps of conducting a nonprofit technology assessment through the following points, to give your team a good starting point for optimizing your tech: Why should you conduct a nonprofit technology assessment?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2024

To help you get started, we’ve gathered valuable tips from our fundraising platform customers and reviewed what the experts say. Making time for another thing is challenging, as is giving money they don’t have. Remember that a volunteer is giving their time—don’t overload them with a full-time job.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

During the giving season —October, November, and December—supporters are gearing up to send last-minute donations. In fact, 30% of annual giving happens in December , and about 10% of all annual donations come in the last three days of the year. Why is the End-of-Year Giving Campaign So Important? But where do you start?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

By evaluating factors like donation history, engagement levels, and specific interests, you can pinpoint individuals who are not only passionate about your cause but also likely to bring valuable skills and commitment to your board. Use Bloomerang to share updates, gather feedback, and keep your board in the loop at all times.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

With the year half way over, this is the perfect time to evaluate your progress so far. While you’re looking at incoming revenue and comparing it to the prior year, take some time to review your expenses as well. Note: While you’re reviewing incoming revenue, if you don’t already, take a look at in-kind donations as well!

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Blue Avocado

JULY 16, 2024

Improve how your nonprofit evaluates, recognizes, and motivates its employees. If you would like to significantly improve how your nonprofit evaluates, recognizes, and motivates its employees, there are a few strategies that you might implement to help guarantee success. How often should they be done? What should be measured?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

It gives brands authenticity, authority, and a dose of highly contagious excitement. The term was coined in 1994 by Joel Kurtzman , who was the founding editor-in-chief of Strategy+Business magazine and editor of the Harvard Business Review. That’s the beauty of thought leadership. I hope I’m preaching to the choir. This is critical.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2024

Why we opted for participatory grantmaking Safety Net Grants uses participatory grantmaking—the practice of centering affected communities by giving them the power to decide which organizations to fund. This process is repeated across three full review meetings, ensuring a cooperative decision-making process.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Enhance online fundraising by offering monthly giving and crowdfunding. Check out the following breakdown of offerings you may want to consider when evaluating fundraising solutions. Giving yourself time to get familiar with your new software. Do your due diligence by reading third party software evaluations. 3) Support.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2024

Review funding history, including donations, grants, sponsorships, or program income, to determine which sources can be repeated for the budget year, what areas have room for growth, and where diversification is needed. Review Expenses Independently Budgeting by department helps break down the budget into manageable pieces.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. Why Change Up Your Questions?

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

Harvard Business Review Analytic Services recently released a report that illustrates the gap between knowing and doing. Make space to give your current staff the time and training they need to become engagement specialists. Understanding members at a granular level has never been more important. We all know this, right?

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 30, 2024

By compiling data and looking at the bigger picture, case studies help you identify the subtle trends and missteps that occurred during the planning and execution of a project, giving you deeper insight into how you can improve in the future. In this article, we’ll show you the power of a post-event case study and how to create your own.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Workplace giving can achieve all of these objectives and more with a carefully developed program, which is why we’ve created this guide! We’ll cover the following topics: What is workplace giving? What are the benefits of employee giving programs? What is workplace giving?

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

When evaluating your school’s readiness for a capital campaign, database readiness might not be at the top of the list for your campaign consultants or administration. Review reporting. Identify major donor giving potential and help build the gift pyramid, a crucial step in the first two phases of a campaign.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

It can be helpful to set up dashboards that give you a daily overview of key performance metrics and trends for each of your campaigns. Reviewing your campaign daily, weekly, and monthly allows you to adjust the campaign for optimal results. Evaluate post-campaign data. Access your data. doing so without accomplishing anything.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Some focus primarily on traditional fundraising like monthly gifts, planned giving, online fundraising, and special events like galas. To find the right product for your needs, the best place to begin is with requirements to help you evaluate alternatives. Many receive a combination of both. High-Level Requirements.

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Candid

AUGUST 14, 2024

As part of Candid’s annual survey of foundation giving trends , i we posed two questions about generative AI: Have you received grant applications created by generative AI? The risk of AI unduly influencing our evaluation process is minimal.” “We are agnostic to the tools that applicants use to create grant applications. foundations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Incorporate Wellbeing Metrics into Your Performance Reviews The good news is some organizations are already taking it a step further. They are embedding mental health support into leaders’ performance reviews, based on anonymous feedback from their teams. Some are even considering tying incentives to well-being objectives.

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NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

To ensure that NTEN continues to grow in our equitable operations, part of our process is to annually review efforts made to the practices outlined in our equity commitment and identify where we can push forward or expand on those efforts in the coming year. 2021 review highlights. 2021 review highlights. 2021 review highlights.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

These should give you a good idea of the items to be demonstrated during an LMS demo. If the student were to fail the assessment, show how they could review their answers. Demonstrate how students can review upcoming training needs. Show how students will be able to review their current enrollments.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

These should give you a good idea of the items to be demonstrated during an LMS demo. If the student were to fail the assessment, show how they could review their answers. Demonstrate how students can review upcoming training needs. Show how students will be able to review their current enrollments.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

These should give you a good idea of the items to be demonstrated during an LMS demo. If the student were to fail the assessment, show how they could review their answers. Demonstrate how students can review upcoming training needs. Show how students will be able to review their current enrollments.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Measurable training metrics may include completion rates, engagement rates, course evaluations, and assessment scores. These include advanced reporting, evaluations, and gap analysis. Having measurable metrics is crucial to pinpoint what is and isn’t working in training development programs.

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sgEngage

JULY 5, 2024

So, when your organization is considering the purchase of new accounting-related software technology, it is crucial to carry out a thorough review of your requirements before you sign that agreement. This gives people ownership and enables them to take initiative in the process. In the nonprofit sector, every dollar matters.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Double click or tap on it, and it will give you the option to copy the text. Reviewing the findings. Uncovering a narrative structure gives sign posts to some of the broader conclusions. Getting a few eyes on the data will help evaluate your own findings. Click “copy text from image” from the pop-up suggestion.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Measurable training metrics may include completion rates, engagement rates, course evaluations, and assessment scores. These objectives will serve as a measure to evaluate the effectiveness of the training program based on defined learning goals. These include advanced reporting, evaluations, and gap analysis.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Measurable training metrics may include completion rates, engagement rates, course evaluations, and assessment scores. These objectives will serve as a measure to evaluate the effectiveness of the training program based on defined learning goals. These include advanced reporting, evaluations, and gap analysis.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. Having 100% Board giving is important for getting grants and also lets donors know that the entire Board is fully behind the nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

It is tempting to allow board members to skip fundraising, but this useful list is designed to give board members a wide range of tasks they can choose from to support the financial growth of your organization, and only a few involve directly asking for money. Give in-kind support to the organization in a way that actually helps.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

In addition to reviewing and updating your nonprofit operating budget each year, your financial team should also regularly evaluate your process for creating that document. Review your strategic plan so everyone is familiar with the organization’s larger goals. When Your Budget Changes Between Reviews.

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Greater Giving

JULY 24, 2023

In this guide, we’ll review three ways your fundraising software can help your nonprofit maintain compliance: Activity data Donation tracking Volunteer tools Fundraising events of all types require careful data tracking, but donations made at an auction are especially complex to manage and record.

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