Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

To understand how resignation trends impacted nonprofits, sector leaders must look below the headline figures to understand employee motivations. The post Re-evaluating the Great Resignation appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Similarly, without robust support from funders, many nonprofits would struggle to fulfill their missions and extend their positive impact on communities. Grantmakers who are addressing these issues see their grantees as more than a means to an end for funder priorities. Their wellness is the outcome we’re responsible for.

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Candid

DECEMBER 5, 2024

At DataKind , we partner with organizations to develop AI tools to increase impact. For example, during civil conflicts, humanitarian organizations need information from multiple data sources to evaluate humanitarian access, urgent needs, and critical gaps. Sustainability and cost efficiency.

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Towards Data Science

MAY 7, 2024

A list to make evaluating ELT/ETL tools a bit less daunting Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash We’ve all been there: you’ve attended (many!) Create a rubric You can find a million articles on evaluation criteria for data integration tooling (I really like this one !),

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Understand What Is Most Important to Your Organization Like any new technology evaluation, you need to first define your organizational priorities and what you would expect from each new solution. Understanding your needs helps you identify the integrations that will make your work more impactful.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This flexibility ensures that operations can continue even if your physical office is impacted. If possible, establish these relationships beforehand so you can make an immediate impact. Make sure employees know what is expected of them and how to communicate if they are unable to work due to connectivity issues.

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. Make time to audit the impact working from home is having on your organization. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. shared this valuable advice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Instead of generating a profit that can be disbursed to shareholders or reinvested in the business, nonprofits funnel their revenue into things like research funding, program expenses, outreach, and work that directly impacts their mission. A written list of requirements is the starting point for evaluating accounting software options.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 16, 2023

The Impact Lab team, part of Google’s Responsible AI Team , employs a range of interdisciplinary methodologies to ensure critical and rich analysis of the potential implications of technology development. Our work gives weight to Google's AI Principles.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. Frame the Issues Risk isn’t on most directors’ list of favorite topics for discussion. Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. Evaluate New Initiatives Strategic risk is a different story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 12, 2022

There’s no easy way to say this, but in most cases, it’s better if you uninstall that plugin (or overlay, or widget)— it’s not going to have the impact you intended. People using assistive devices are used to sites that don’t work perfectly and know how to work around the most common issues. WAVE—Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As of May 2024, the MMMU benchmark , which evaluates responses to college-level questions, scored GPT-4o at 60%, compared with an 83% human average. Benchmarks created to assess the performance of AI tools compared with humans on tasks such as image classification, visual reasoning, and English understanding show the gaps narrowing.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

It’s impossible to create that high-level, human-centered impact without getting into the weeds. Review Systematically How do you evaluate whether your organization’s data is pristine, polluted, or somewhere in the murky in-between? If any of the following issues sound familiar, it may be time for an intervention.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Images: Meta] Once a note is submitted, it’s evaluated by other Community Notes contributors. Images: Meta] The company doesn’t have a plan for addressing one of the biggest issues with tackling misinformationwhich happens both via Community Notes and third-party fact checking: the implied truth effect.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Perhaps this is why, as Microsofts CEO Satya Nadella pointed out, theres a big discrepancy between how employees evaluate their own work ethic, and how their bosses do, with 85% of managers believing that employees are slacking, while 85% of those employees feeling overworked. What can I do now that I couldnt do a year ago?

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 7, 2023

After developing a new model, one must evaluate whether the speech it generates is accurate and natural: the content must be relevant to the task, the pronunciation correct, the tone appropriate, and there should be no acoustic artifacts such as cracks or signal-correlated noise. This is the largest published effort of this type to date.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

Check with your team’s designated web expert to evaluate your website regarding basic technical standards. Broken links, broken images, slow load times, database errors, and other non-SEO issues can impact your search engine results. 2) Technical Details Matter, Too. 3) Leverage Your Networks.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The most innovative firms in the industry expand this notion, solving pressing issues in new ways that build on or scale up existing techniques and technologies. And Gensler rolled out its Product Sustainability Standards, providing for many in the industry a clear way to measure the carbon impact of the interior products they select.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Track data points and metrics to evaluate your campaigns progress. Recent research helped shed some light on this issue and provided a clear path forward for nonprofit professionals. Targeted messages like these help donors visualize the real impact they can have on your mission. Sprinkle in calls to action.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I am still evaluating the lessons learned. Today, in Milwaukee, the group has gone on to consider public safety, another issue that’s critical for restaurants. These dynamics characterize partnerships like Nancy and Kristine’s: Mutual benefit over a broad range of issues and experiences. The pandemic was a wormhole.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

. — Jessica Macy from The Do Good Collective Recruit a Serious and Engaged ‘Get ‘er Done’ Board Most of all, nonprofits need engaged, “Get ‘er Done” members willing to join committees and help the staff accomplish operational issues. They had recruited a nearly all-new board in critical professions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Our board and I are looking forward to Betsy leading Benetech to even greater impact. Data for Inclusion: Enabling people with disabilities to provide firsthand reports on the issues they face to inform policy at the local, national, and global level. Empowered over 600,000 people who are blind or dyslexic to read with Bookshare.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2025

What’s clear is that a nonprofit’s resilience requires regular evaluation of its technology stack, the cost of letting antiquated systems linger is too great in the midst of a turbulent macro and micro environment. But how should a nonprofit approach evaluating their technology? Take AI for example. Does it add or distract?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2024

While that’s true—it’s hard to fully understand a younger generation’s perspective if you’re not part of it—the underlying issue may be looking at the puzzle as something unknowable. Create volunteer opportunities through which their actions will have an obvious impact. 5) Share the impact Gen Z is attracted to transparency.

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.orgSource

JULY 22, 2024

Self-evaluation isn’t easy. A dip in numbers is an opportunity for teams to respond quickly to rising issues or challenges. Study the Situation This analysis phase addresses basic issues such as performance on key indicators, environmental scanning for future scenarios, and readiness for transformative changes.

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

A technology assessment is a performance evaluation of your IT systems. The purpose of an IT assessment is to evaluate whether your systems’ functionality and efficiency are in alignment with organizational goals and strategy. Do issues and bottlenecks undermine performance? Is there missing or superfluous functionality?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Throughout the pandemic, I fielded calls from colleagues asking for advice on a range of issues. They also highlight the impact of remote work on employee enthusiasm and the importance of empathy in workplace relationships. It can also help you evaluate your group’s current strengths and weaknesses. I take that back.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Less than stellar board performance might not have been an issue. And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. Don’t muddle trivialities, like how to fill out a reimbursement form, with significant issues like these. That’s why there is no substitute for the impact of personal conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. Aside from technical issues, the biggest problem is engagement. Test your technology before the meeting and resolve any technical issues. Use phone line with audio clarity and stability.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

This initiative has impacted the organization in numerous ways. The leadership team began by discussing the issues. to devote resources, either human or financial, to initiatives that won’t directly impact the bottom line. Making that evaluation requires collaboration. Our results were not where we wanted them to be.

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 18, 2023

In today’s ever-changing landscape of nonprofit organizations, effective volunteer management is crucial for achieving impactful and sustainable results. Evaluate Program Effectiveness: Volunteer Engagement Surveys allow nonprofits to assess the effectiveness of their volunteer programs and identify areas of strength and weakness.

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Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

Women have a unique opportunity to use their position to advance philanthropy and impact to tackle the pressing problems affecting human and planetary health. We must teach them the bigger picture of global issues and prepare them to use their future thought leadership and resources to participate in global change making.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Our recommendation tools save time, so nonprofits can focus on mission-driven work Candid is dedicated to helping the social sector increase its impact. Were constantly monitoring feedback from users to evaluate performance and make necessary improvements. The RFP recommendation system is available to the public to test on Candid labs.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2025

External Issues A few things in recent years have caused us all to need to adjust our budgets. Internal Issues Leadership changes , departmental or program re-prioritizations, scope creep, revenue stream shifts , mergers, and separations are all possible internal adjustments that could cause a change in the budget. Those with impact.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Thought leadership helps bring your audience on a journey of shared understanding and insights, in order to drive toward impactful solutions. Use data to make objective decisions based on site traffic, evaluations, sales, professional development activity, focus groups and/or other types of outreach. I hope I’m preaching to the choir.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Early studies have already captured its impact in other states: In Utah, students who used Amira for just 30 minutes a week saw the equivalent of 1.5 Promova has also updated the apps interface to help mitigate focus and attention issues for users, particularly those with cognitive disabilities.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Use this process map to pinpoint where enhancements will be most impactful. Week 1: Plan for Successful Outcomes While you are analyzing your business processes and understanding the issues, also identify what success will look like. Address bugs and performance issues early on to save time and resources in the long run.

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