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. 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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CauseVox

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Evaluate and Reflect on GivingTuesday’s Success After the flurry of GivingTuesday activity subsides, take a moment to pause and reflect. As you reflect, identify the elements that resonated most deeply with your audience. The goal is to make donors feel like their contribution is part of something special.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

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? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

In contrast, when waves strike vertical concrete seawalls, the energy is reflected back into the water rather than absorbed. The goal is to deflect waves away from the seawall, reduce direct impact, and help minimize erosion and turbulence around the walls foundation. A collection of 3D-printed concrete BIOCAP tiles.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 4, 2022

How does your association define its goals? As you seek to reach your organizational goals, it’s crucial to take a step back and consider what drives your association. Here’s how you can use membership aims and innovative technology to successfully surpass your association goals. . What qualities make for the best member?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 24, 2024

1) Set Your Goals. First, you need to determine your key goals for the event and include them in your checklist. These goals will help you plan your event with a specific objective and fundraising target in mind. Ask yourself these questions to set effective goals: What is the purpose of the event? 2) Create a Budget.

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VQ Strategies

AUGUST 24, 2022

Yet, even prior to the pandemic, organizations had begun to rethink how retention success was measured, shifting from a goal of keeping volunteers to one of “maximizing volunteer talent.” No time in history has challenged our definitions and goals of retention as dramatically as have the past few years.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

” After one of these presentations, a participant came up to me and pushed back a little on what I’d said, explaining that data was for evaluation and that seemed very passive. Step 1: Linking Strategy to Goals. Step 2: Linking Goals to Social. That’s what actionable means. We need strategic data. Get Started.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

Data that accurately reflects your members and their preferences is the key to trust, engagement, and enduring relationships. Review Systematically How do you evaluate whether your organization’s data is pristine, polluted, or somewhere in the murky in-between? Include benchmarks in goals and KPIs.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 14, 2025

Use the answers to those key questions to define goals by audience segment. This is particularly beneficial for goals around: Number of new donors Increasing the number of gifts per donor Increasing the average gift This isnt the time to delve into tactics. The answers to these questions should be reflected in your budget.

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Candid

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Expanding the DEI lens: Equitable and inclusive structures In 2015, we focused on building a solid HR infrastructure, constantly evaluating our efforts in the context of DEI. This approach encourages personal reflection to enable inclusive and collaborative interactions, leading to systemic change and organizational accountability.

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.orgSource

JUNE 10, 2024

Their jobs depend on successfully leveraging teams and translating goals into tactics. When you give employees the capacity to do their jobs and to grow as professionals, that positive energy reflects throughout the organization. When you give people time for reflection, evaluation, and creativity you develop a new crop of leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Bahia Ramos wrote this post as part of a learning culmination process where we reflected on the design and what was learned as we moved into another round of giving days. Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days. The foundations learned several things that helped them surpass their goals.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Evaluate Alignment “Maintaining a consistent relationship between mission, vision, and customers is critical for a successful company,” Randy advised. “We Making that evaluation requires collaboration. Of course, the goal is not just accommodating work habits. Those kudos reflect a significant accomplishment.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Forming: Team members come together to establish a common goal. Performing: Now that time isn’t wasted deciding how the team will work, the group makes significant progress toward their goals. Adjourning: The team completes its deliverables and evaluates the project. This stage is characterized by questions and politeness.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 18, 2024

You should create a detailed budget that accurately reflects the costs associated with implementing the proposed project or program. Its also important to allocate sufficient funds for evaluation and monitoring activities to ensure the projects success.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I’m gathering my thoughts to start putting together my slides and presentation and wanted to stop for reflection and sharing. “Innovating at the speed of communities&# is a big goal, but something organizations and civic institutions can learn a lot from as a model. Communities As A Model. The Impact on Institutions.

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NetWits

JANUARY 18, 2011

When was the last time you stood back and tried to evaluate the performance of your organisations website? To get started, pull all of the key staff members responsible for the website together for few minutes and consider: What are they key goals of your organisation? What are the key goals of your website?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

This evolution reflects a broader digital transformation in the nonprofit world, underlining the importance of adaptability and innovation in communication. Using SMS for Nonprofit Fundraising walk you through everything from setting goals and crafting messages to activating your data and executing campaigns with precision.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Unstructured For broadening the scope ofcorporate data that can inform AI Unstructureds goal is to help businesses unlock and leverage their unstructured data, making it accessible as the foundation for AI-powered solutions. Air Force, Varda Space Industries, and others, continue to transform testing and evaluation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Volunteers can have an enormous impact on reaching your goals. Once your volunteer completes their onboarding and training, be sure to reflect that in their volunteer profile. There are six key considerations: Your nonprofit’s goals. The role your volunteers play within your organization to achieve your goals.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

Motivation— supports developing strategy, setting goals, and staying focused. Ensure a long-term commitment to the process by Incorporating EI into your organization’s values and performance evaluations. Provide recognition and compensation that reflect its importance. Ask questions that invite self-evaluation.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. The categories that are represented should reflect qualities that directors bring to the board as well as characteristics that will enhance the organization’s growth and development. Except for officers, most don’t receive financial compensation.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

It’s not difficult to evaluate when someone has the right background and experience to do a job. Similarly, when you are building a project-related team, document goals, and objectives and ensure that all participants understand what success looks like. That’s a goal your team should be eager to achieve.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Someone with the wrong attitude or who doesn’t understand the goals can do more harm than good. Design a program that reflects the customized service you want to deliver and the quality of outreach you want to produce. Evaluate Expertise Who exactly are the members of your new brain trust and where will you find them?

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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. What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. Meanwhile, I’d like to offer my own recommendations.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Frankly, the search, evaluation, interview, and selection process can be very rigorous and time-consuming. As we stated in part one of this series , setting SMART goals for the process is key. . Set a SMART goal. Have you evaluated your public-facing JEDI statements and practices? . Investigate the budget. .

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 28, 2024

Nonprofits should create a detailed budget that accurately reflects the costs associated with implementing the proposed project or program. It’s also important to allocate sufficient funds for evaluation and monitoring activities to ensure the project’s success.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Applying reflection, reasoning, and individual experience to problem-solving is not part of the Summit supercomputer program, but it is an approach that is invaluable in making advantageous business decisions. Demonstrate how individual and departmental objectives relate to overarching goals and the organization’s mission.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

At the end of a recent strategic planning retreat, each participant shared brief reflections on the day. Reviewing the results gives board and staff members the opportunity to reflect on organizational strengths and challenges, which helps them understand what is most important to focus on at the retreat.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 19, 2023

Community engagement enables us to shift how we incorporate knowledge of what’s most important throughout this pipeline, from dataset curation to evaluation. Based on this understanding we have created responsible AI evaluation strategies that are effective in recognizing and mitigating biases along multiple dimensions.

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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. Set strategic goals with your board Alignment on strategic goals is non-negotiable.

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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. Is this question relevant?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual).

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Reverse Improvement occurs when leaders fail to pause and evaluate whether technological progress aligns with long-term human development. Self-aware leaders evaluate whether they are engaging with AI as a tool or relying on it as a crutch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start. Is the evaluation of your program something management needs to assess the performance of your organization as a whole?

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