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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. Updating roles is a good place to begin promoting the flow of knowledge, ideas, and information across your association. The post <strong>Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?</strong>

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A Guide to Evaluating Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This was fairly early in the Foundation’s exploration of networks and Madeleine came in to discuss her approach to evaluating networks. Fast forward five years, Madeleine has published a new guide on evaluating networks. A Guide to Evaluating Networks – Guest Post By Madeleine Taylor. Real network examples.

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How to protect human rights in an AI-filled workplace

Fast Company Tech

Taking away the human element obviously has a structural problem for workers, but it has a humanity problem, as well.” Data collection and storage A third area of focus for Gonzalez is data that’s being taken from workers without their knowledge, including through facial recognition tools.

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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

Of course, qualities such as financial expertise, legal knowledge, and leadership are all welcomed and useful additions; however they are not in place of the most important quality — caring. It’s okay to not be knowledgeable about what we do, as that can be learned. Will they attend the meetings? Will they make phone calls?

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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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1.5 Years of Spark Knowledge in 8 Tips

Towards Data Science

Throughout this post, we assume a general working knowledge of spark and it’s structure, but this post should be accessible to all levels of spark. 2— Collect Data to Memory Once The most common mistake for spark novices is misunderstanding lazy evaluation. Spark is lazily evaluated! Let’s dive in! cast("int")).drop(c)

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. How the sector understands and engages in knowledge work is crucial to the success of philanthropic efforts.