.orgSource

JUNE 24, 2024

Being identified as the best in anything from soccer to sales requires commitment and hard work. Even before COVID-19, the rapid pace of technology and its impact on culture was upending traditional business models. If an organizational evaluation isn’t on your agenda, now is the time to revise your schedule.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

To make a point about technology and its impact on the future of work, Hugh Lee, Co-Founder of Fusion Productions, told me this story: “Several years ago, we invited some young presenters who were developing cutting edge farming technology to digitalNow. Subsequent models will incorporate changes based on consumer feedback.

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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

JULY 10, 2023

During 2018 and 2019, my business partner, Kevin Ordonez and I, interviewed approximately 50 association executives. The Critical Questions will prompt you to evaluate your organization’s current status. Resist the temptation to model the competition. This creates focus and helps leaders stay engaged with their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading.

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Candid

JUNE 3, 2024

For a large organization working in all four areas to improve the lived experiences of a traditionally marginalized population, achieving impact requires the application of evidence-based insights. SAGE’s successful efforts might serve as an inspiration and a model for how other nonprofits could leverage data to enhance their work.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Our research included interviewing thought leaders, organizing think tanks, and surveying professionals. Marc Benioff, Co-Founder and CEO of SalesForce, describes the goal like this, “A digital ecology is a network of interconnected digital systems that work together to create value. Association 4.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I recently interviewed Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink, Head of Product Impact, who designed the challenged to learn more. I’m the Head of Product Impact at Google.org, working to use emerging technology and Google’s expertise for social impact. My early career was in international development, working for the U.S.

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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. They should also help create new programs and services that accomplish your mission plus help raise needed funds to fund the work.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 12, 2024

But they are also expected to be leaders—model leaders—entrusted with significant responsibilities, including governance, strategic planning, fundraising, and advocacy. Also, make a commitment of time to volunteer and help with programming and other work going on at the organization. Do radio, television, or podcast interviews.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Welcome: AI 2-Minute Rule As a starting point, assume what takes you 2 hours can take AI 2 minutes , consider this when evaluating tasks. Instead of completing the task yourself or putting it on the pile, send it to a trained model that can deliver a rough draft or quick solutions. MODEL: requires Read.ai

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think We Should Do Our Work! The OE program works with grantees around the world to build their capacity in these areas. Interviews with 9 other foundations that conduct OE grantmaking (April-May 2012). How the OE Program Works.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Continuously building evidence should be part of everyone’s work. Moreover, this work has been underfunded and its analysis happens often away from C-suite or Board discussions. It’s true that rigorous evaluation is critical, but right-sizing your evaluation is equally important. Integrated Financial Management.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Ignoring social justice issues that your workforce is dealing with outside of work can, in turn, affect productivity and morale in your work environment,” writes Christie Lindor. Tackling Social Justice Issues on Diversity and Inclusion : Interview with Michael Moore, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at Blackbaud.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately. As part of a.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Gen N began to emerge, shaped by constraints like mask-wearing, abrupt work from home transitions, and lifestyle and health traumas wrought by the pandemic. And how did this work out? Whatever you did, evaluation is in order to assess what worked, what didn’t and why. What values will underlie your work?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 23, 2018

The implementation of innovation and adaptability is a business model that should not only be accepted but embraced by the third sector and its donors (members). The Race for Relevance, by Coever and Byers, looks at another angle, the internal structure of nonprofits as the place to evaluate the decline and influence change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. The model balances content, learning design, and participants. Another topic that I’ve been tracking for a few years is information overload, with an emphasis on information coping skills.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

With limited people and financial resources, leaders of nonprofit organizations must execute strong management styles that develop the talent of their teams, foster healthy working environments and encourage retention of valuable employees. Lack of professionalism and high turnover rates can dissuade high-performers from joining the team.

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Forj

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We recently did a short interview with Mike elaborating on how xAPI came to be, who’s using it, and the costs and benefits of using xAPI to make decisions about continue education. Below you will find the questions asked during the interview, followed by Mike Rustici’s recorded answers. Tell us about the VISA case study. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Note from Beth: I first learned about this project last year, when Shiree Teng, the project leader, interviewed me as part of some research on capacity building consultants that lead to the design of ImpactRising. First though, I want to dedicate this post to one of my hero philanthropists, whose spirit ImpactRising’s work strives to embody.

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.orgSource

JULY 3, 2023

Understand the New Environment Back in 2019, when I interviewed Dan for our book “Association 4.0: was to help them leverage and monetize assets they already owned and showcase their brands in a new context while creating a simple model that could become self-funding.” That concept works well for Netflix,” Dan advises.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 2, 2022

Volunteers tend to fall into one of two categories: key volunteers, who envision and plan the event, and episodic volunteers, who do the day-of work or small tasks around the office. What are the benefits of working with a fundraising event committee? Most nonprofits supplement staff labor with volunteer support. Community Engagement.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I bike to work and at least once every couple of weeks it’s Lindsay having an awesome conversation with somebody that speeds up that commute for me. Let’s bring those up, we’ll see if it works here. . Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. .

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Podcast,orgSource Senior Consultant, Kevin Martlage , interviewed PCI staffers, Beth Taylor and Randy Wilson about that experience. Over the past three years,orgSource has been working with the PCI team on several significant projects,” Kevin said. Begin With Yourself Beth and Randy are committed to making PCI a great place to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

That’s where I met Kim Kastorff who is the founder of Kimpacto , a San Francisco-based advisory & consulting firm working across the U.S., She graciously did this interview with me to share more of her knowledge. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Europe and Latin America.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. This qualitative, exploratory study involved tracking and interviewing 32 Spanish-speaking intergenerational groups in fully bilingual exhibits at four different science centers/museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Should we be using an industrial measurement model in a digital age? KD Paine , Queen of Measurement, ( interviewed by Jason ) shares an important insight "Ultimately, the key question to ask when measuring engagement is, ‘Are we getting what we want out of the conversation?’”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

We embarked on a process of “naming and claiming” the work we do. A theory of change is a model that connects: the activities we do, to the outcomes they effect, to the impact we seek to create in the world. We worked with Ian to revise the theory based on the retreat. Where to start? I’ll write about the handbook soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

In a brief interview with Ann, she shared some of her philosophy and passion. "I However, there was also a plea not to make evaluation painful, collecting huges amount of data and not using it to improve a program. There is something beneath the language of "what works" that can kill innovation. I tweeted some of the key points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

I was lucky enough to snag an interview with Jessica Kirkwood from HandsOn Network who oversees social media strategy about how the strategy and measurement component for this campaign. Get affiliated (trained/certified) (so that an emergency response organization can put you to work in a leadership position immediately in a time of disaster.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Scott Anderson from ClientTrack , a software solution aimed at increasing the impact of social benefit organizations and their work by “integrating people, processes, and technology.&# You can learn more about Scott and the work ClientTrack is doing in the interview below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The 45 page report is based on an extensive literature search and interviews with Philanthropy professionals who are currently experimenting with Web 2.0 Many we interviewed felt that communicating those innovative efforts through these new technologies makes sense. Leverage the great work of others. tools and techniques.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. In the most simple terms, a movement is when organizations work with, and not for, the community. They didn’t make too much of the merger, as there’s lots of work to do.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

I assume most people start there because it is arguably the easiest part to grapple with; at least you can quantitatively evaluate and compare various solutions. Modeling appropriate site use and enforcing the “Terms of Use” as appropriate. Model Wanted Behavior. Monitoring performance and progress to goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. The work you do may be fascinating to donors or may have hidden value that you have overlooked. Plug donor skills into the work. Touch the work.

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