Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Over the past several years, I’ve met with countless people at a wide variety of organizations to connect on outcomes measurement , and I tend to hear similar questions and qualms about this still-new area. “ How do we get started? ” “ Is there a difference between measurement and evaluation? ” “ Is there a right way to define an outcome?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent). Miscellaneous (3 percent).

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Two Signs Your Mission Statement Needs to Be Updated Experts recommend re-evaluating your mission statement every three years. Next, ask about what language resonates with them. This input can help you measure the success and impact of your programming more objectively. Be sure to use active voice and descriptive language.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. Organizations play funders’ perfection game by writing grant proposals and making promises to funders as if they can predict the future. Please help now.”

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. If we continue trying to measure social change by financial criteria alone, we’ll never have full view of the inputs and processes necessary to create lasting impact. a grant, major gift, etc.) How did we get here? Tweet this.

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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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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition, the nonprofit evaluation services GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have teamed up on something called the "Overhead Myth letter." That's why Elizabeth says nonprofits shouldn't initially focus on measuring impact. Measuring impact is the last thing to tackle.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Evaluate your volunteer program. Your goals should be SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. However, if your goal is SMART—specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound—you’ll have a clear benchmark to work toward and measure progress. Evaluate your volunteer program.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Maren, German, and Kristie, Google Grants. On the Google Grants team, we receive a lot of questions from grantees on how best to evaluate their AdWords performance. We put this article together to give guidance around monitoring and evaluating your Google Grants account using a few strategies we find valuable.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2017

Without question, our ability to track and measure outcomes and the impact of social good initiatives has expanded considerably over the past several years. One of the biggest changes we’ve seen in the nonprofit sector is that we now have the technology to power this type of outcomes-centered measurement and program tracking.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

If you were paying close attention when GDPR came around in 2018 and your organization is confidently GDPR-compliant , you are probably in good shape beyond some updates to privacy policy language. Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) Full Guide to DSARs: [link] How should we plan for enforcement as a mid-sized nonprofit?

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Law Digital Guide New York 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2017

Translation: outcomes measurement. This is so much more than the UN pointing at a North Star – with the emphasis on outcomes tracking baked into the SDGs framework, we have the indicators to see if we’re on track to achieving social change with a ready-made formula to measure success. Do the SDGs Apply in the United States?

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

For nonprofit organizations, in particular, this research is used to understand the priorities of their donors, volunteers, grant-making organizations, and so forth. This consultant can evaluate your nonprofit’s overarching goals and help you define the research objectives that will help you accomplish them.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2016

As I mentioned in my previous two blog posts about the GMN 2016 annual conference , we asked conference attendees to respond to the following question: Where are you on your journey to measuring outcomes and impact? We need more evaluation and measurement as this is vital to moving a cause forward and the only way to improve.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

Granted, that's hard to measure." When the discussion turned to what words make tweets great it was revealed that a key ingredient to successful tweets wasn't so much language but good Twitter etiquette. Action can be thought of as creating conversation.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

In this article, we will explain why everyone is talking about AI, what has changed over the past few years, and evaluate opportunities for nonprofits to adopt AI to improve their mission-aligned outcomes safely. Chat-GPT is a generative large language model. Jump to: What is AI, and why should I care? What do these new AI tools do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. Grants are about taking it scale. How do you measure the change? That the old metrics aren't working.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In the last post, we discussed how to find the perfect grant for your organization. This week, we’ll dive into how to write an effective application that will get you the grant. Since you’ve already done your research and determined that your organization is grants-ready , you should be confident you’re a good candidate for this grant.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Between email solicitation, direct mail, major donors, and grant-writing, the vast majority of nonprofits will weather the economic hard times. They'll want to set the programmatic agenda, select the beneficiaries and target areas, communicate the organization's message, and, in real-time, evaluate feedback as it comes in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

The first grant was at Berkeley and USC. Gave a grant to global kids. How we measure social good is how we engage. For example, the work from Hope Lab - evaluation of the results of their game. Speak the language of your audience. Not going to fund a game -- what is the relationship between games and learning.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Whether you are fully dependent on donations or utilize a variety of revenue sources like government grants, corporate partnerships, major contributions, or membership fees, successful fundraising is key to maximizing your impact on your mission. A diverse and holistic fundraising strategy is crucial to a nonprofit’s success. Set S.M.A.R.T.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Evaluation In this stage, the potential donor begins to consider making a donation to your nonprofit. Foundation Directory Online: This directory offers a ton of valuable information on foundations and other grant-making organizations, including their grant-making history, funding priorities, and application requirements.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

He attributes Water for People’s success to their relentless focus on (and measurement of) outcomes. Personally, I have been futzing around with learning R (a statistical/data manipulation language) and have passing knowledge of a lot of the concepts that these fellows addressed—machine learning, natural language processing, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. We didn’t even really have the language to use to create documentation, or, at least we didn’t think we did. Analog Strategies. Social Paradigm.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Your goals should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious/Attainable, and Time-based). Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both its appeal language and its CTA. Identify corporate sponsors , grant matches , social media advocates, and peer-to-peer (P2P) advocates.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Like is there a video that I can watch so that I can evaluate whether I want to use it or not?” You’ve been speaking my language. What should people be looking at and measuring? Well, hopefully, you all can join us next week when we talk about grants. Can you orient me to them? And I have a free worksheet.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Your goals should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious/Attainable, and Time-based). Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both their appeal language and on their CTA. Identify corporate sponsors , grant matches , social media advocates, and peer-to-peer (P2P) advocates.

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Guide Goal Social Media Action 98

Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

Individually and through our organizations, we have surveyed, tested, and evaluated these new platforms. And they make participation more accessible by creating easier opportunities for people to engage at times and in places and languages that work for them. There are two measures needed to correct this.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

” And Lynn Grant, a great fundraiser working with Nature Conservancy in Canada, was going into a corporate office a number of years ago, they were going to ask for a quarter of a million dollars. Steven: And I would call that evaluation, right, that’s us checking to see if we’re doing our work well, right. .

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