Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi, CFRE , Founder and CEO at The International Social Impact Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University In the rapidly evolving landscape of nonprofit organizations, adapting to the digital realm has become a pivotal challenge. Among the innovative tools that have garnered attention is ChatGPT.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This is a really great post to read for anyone thinking about how to measure, evaluate, and even consider the impact of social media use (and that should be everyone). "Over It is the brain-child of Ewa Wojkowska and Toshi Nakamura who have extensive experience in international development as UN staff members." Check it out!

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Nimble AMS

JULY 17, 2024

Associations can use software testing to evaluate and verify that their technology is working as it should. Software testing can ensure each phase of your implementation meets your association’s requirements by identifying issues early and saving time and costs for your organization. What is software testing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible. For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners.

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sgEngage

MAY 23, 2024

Capacity and/or Partnership – what can the organization handle internally? Review the Funding Opportunity Announcement Carefully When you start the application process, review the announcement carefully for programmatic requirements such as evaluation, organizational structure, planning, and outreach. What needs are missing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

. Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). The “ Valid Metrics Framework “ looks at communications in three phases with each having specific metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, visited the Packard Foundation yesterday. I participated in a lively exploratory conversation about "How do you evaluate network effectiveness?" evaluation field, how it has changed and get a deeper understanding of developmental evaluation. But first, some context. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

How to source and evaluate talent for the marketing team. Marketers work with finance and product teams to formulate projections as the company moves into the clinical phase. For additional support in the formation stage, companies bring on MBA interns and work with their investors. When to hire the marketing team. Forecasting.

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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. Normally that seems like something they would do during the startup phase of the nonprofit, but missions can change over time.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 14, 2024

Present the most qualified candidates to the board after conducting extensive in-depth interviews and personality assessments and evaluations that best match the ideal position profile. Complete the search and provide onboarding support to the newly appointed individual during their initial phase of their tenure. According to Dennis C.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Silver Lake and Advent International led the round, with Advent remaining the company’s largest shareholder. And that analytics engine for sourcing potential acquisitions is working hard: Thrasio says that it has “evaluated” some 6,000 businesses overall.). It said that it’s currently on a rate of buying 1.5

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They are setting the stage for transparent communication when evaluating compatibility and complementary “value exchange between partners” are in effect. Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection. Internal assessment. Layer two begins with the implementation process. Recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

In addition, I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers and am now an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It is demanding of an organizational cultural change that will adopt inclusivity in all aspects, both internally and externally. Strategies to diversify nonprofit boards can be divided into three broad phases. Phase 1: Triple A’s - awareness, attitude and action. Phase 2: Implementation. Phase 3: Evaluate and celebrate.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Timely submissions and consistent, personalized stewardship signal to internal and external constituents that your nonprofit is ready to effectively participate in the fundraising arena. Before committing to a collaborative venture, you evaluate each potential partner to ensure alignment with your organization’s mission, values, and goals.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 20, 2024

During this crucial phase, organizational leaders and stakeholders come together to define the aim of the campaign beyond just raising funds. Leaders also engage in preliminary discussions to secure internal buy-in, ensuring that key members of the organization are on board and committed to the campaign’s objectives.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 12, 2025

Published on March 12, 2025 5:56 PM GMT Summary The Stages-Oversight benchmark from the Situational Awareness Dataset tests whether large language models (LLMs) can distinguish between evaluation prompts (such as benchmark questions) and deployment prompts (real-world user inputs).

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? eLearning consultants typically come in two forms: Internal Consultants: This individual is employed within your association and functions as a member of your team, both providing and acting on guidance to grow your learning business. What does a learning consultant do?

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 10, 2023

For the past three years, we have been part of an international collaboration with 119 scientists across 60 institutions, called the Human Pangenome Research Consortium , to address these challenges by creating a new and more representative map of the human genome, a pangenome. Training and evaluation schematic for DeepVariant.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the help of Shutterstock’s events and marketing teams, Reynolds and Deeran figured out ways to create processes internally and saw ROI from the channel go up dramatically. Meanwhile, Reynolds and Deeran are approaching the company’s growth in three phases: exploration, execution and evaluation.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Evaluate cross-functional process flow. It is critical to stop and take the time to evaluate the cross-functionality of all school areas. In a connected school, processes must be continuously evaluated and modified for the best outcome for the greater good. and discuss those department processes.

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OpenAI

JULY 18, 2022

” Based on our internal evaluation, users were 12× more likely to say that DALL·E images included people of diverse backgrounds after the technique was applied. During this preview phase, early users have flagged sensitive and biased images which have helped inform and evaluate this new mitigation.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In addition to a thorough understanding of the funding requirements, true grant compliance includes internal controls through oversight and documentation, reporting, monitoring and evaluation, and staff training on these compliance obligations: Ethics and Code of Conduct: Ensure ethical behavior and prevention of waste, fraud, and abuse.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 9, 2020

It’s important to understand several concepts before evaluating the cost of a new AMS system. So, if you need to make adjustments, be sure to have an approval process that must go through internal project management personnel. This will help filter out “wants” from “needs”. Prioritize your requirements.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

In summary, collaboration is critical because a client-centric approach, tied into a community of resources through technology, facilitates simplified, whole solutions that can be evaluated based on system-wide outcomes. We are currently in the first phase of implementation with a group of three Community Action Agencies in Massachusetts.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2017

Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. If appropriate for the grant size, is an experienced independent evaluator involved to administer the outcomes measurement plan? Which leads us to #5….

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 17, 2021

On June 16, 2021, Salesforce and their co-sponsoring school, The University of Colorado, brought together an international Education Community for the 8th Annual Education Summit. In the winter of 2019, the UVM team began an institutional CRM evaluation seeking to unite their systems campus-wide.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This post features advice from IT and grants management experts on how to streamline your tech solutions, create clear processes, and drive more external and internal impact. Her team has also streamlined software for more efficient internal operations—making sure employees have the technology they need without overdoing it.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The process of outlining your nonprofit’s digital strategy can be broken up into four phases for a total of seven steps, as follows: Phase 1: The Identification Stage. Phase 2: The Planning Stage. Phase 3: The Execution Stage. Phase 4: The Analysis Stage. Let’s begin with an overview of the first phase.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. If you are designing a new social media initiative, I would urge you to use the 4Cs Framework in the design and strategy phase itself.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. My team thinks of the grants lifecycle as having five phases.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

International Development Finance Corporation, the Ford Foundation, Kenya’s Co-operative bank and high net-worth individuals. As it plans to scale its operations, 4G Capital plans to invest in data science enhancements for its evaluation algorithm, and grow its management team in evolving its core banking system. “We

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 6, 2025

Published on March 6, 2025 1:49 PM GMT TLDR: AI models are now capable enough that we might get relevant information from monitoring for scheming in regular deployments, both in the internal and external deployment settings. Concrete ideas Id recommend starting only with developer-internal usage data. What do we mean by in the wild?

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M+R

JUNE 18, 2024

That’s what our industry’s been doing — slowly but surely phasing this technology out. This is also a good time to look at your attribution model and consider investing in media mix modeling to help you evaluate performance across platforms without cookies. Firefox and Safari have already fully removed support for 3rd party cookies.

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Forum One

JULY 26, 2010

Securing funding, kicking off a project, running the project, evaluating progress, and following up: at each step in the program lifecycle, grantees have different needs. During the assessment and evaluation phases, grantees may be more motivated to share their work and show off what they have accomplished.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Before you partner with a nonprofit tech consultant, complete the following steps to ensure your team is well-prepared for the evaluation. If your nonprofit has an internal information technology (IT) team, that team can lead the project. During this phase, the consultant seeks to understand: Who your organization is.

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