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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

Rather than start at the beginning, I’m starting at the end by sharing some tips for a formal reflection process that can lead to improving results of a project or event. A structured reflection process generates insights about what worked and what could be improved. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Many data problems can be fixed by using your CRM as it was intended to be used, streamlining codes, or standardizing your practices. Does your team have the time and technical aptitude to evaluate and learn a new system? Changing systems without careful reflection is a recipe for future data frustration. See the lookbook!

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.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

Data that accurately reflects your members and their preferences is the key to trust, engagement, and enduring relationships. Review Systematically How do you evaluate whether your organization’s data is pristine, polluted, or somewhere in the murky in-between? Every person on your staff should understand best practices.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 21, 2010

Results of a detailed evaluation of the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge competition have been released in the “must-read” 2009 AGC Assessment and Reflection Report. The best part? Lessons learned can be replicated by other non-profits, both for contest campaigns and for general social media outreach.( read more ).

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I was very fortunate to be a part of the early Network of Network Funders community of practice. I entered the community as a foundation evaluator wanting to find the best strategies and tools for documenting and learning about networks but also for measuring those difficult-to-pin-down outcomes and impact.

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Candid

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Our DEI journey began with the realization that we lacked key perspectives that could enhance our work and further align internal practices with our mission. This led us to examine our practices and identify areas where we could do better. We continuously asked ourselves, “How can we disrupt inequality in our work?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Check out the following breakdown of offerings you may want to consider when evaluating fundraising solutions. An instructor virtually guides you through common nonprofit tasks and best practices on how to use your system in real time. Do your due diligence by reading third party software evaluations. 3) Support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

.” The participants were a cross-disciplinary group and included people who work at different foundations in the areas of evaluation, communication, social media, and programs as well as people who work for nonprofits and as consultants who work in evaluation, social media, network analysis, data scientists, and others.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Six Best Practices for a Stronger Audit Relationship Now, however, nonprofits and auditing firms are more likely to share and leverage their diverse experiences to better collaborate with one another. Check out our audit toolkit with best practices and a checklist to help you use your technology to streamline your audit.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This allows you to compare your planned versus actual financial activities and evaluate how closely your organization was able to stick to its budget. Your bookkeeping practices throughout the fiscal year matter.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In a webinar with Peter Panapento , co-founder and philanthropic practice leader of Turn Two Communications, he shared best practices when creating an AI policy for your grantmaking organization. So, the best practices for your organization should also shift over time. Meet your staff where they are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. One of the newest resources, a free online guide called “ The Data Playbook ,” was recently published by the Schusterman Foundation and written by Rella Kaplowitz, Program Officer, Evaluation and Learning.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Not only do you need to look inward at your own operations, but you also need to make sure your funding reflects those same goals. For grantmakers to make a truly lasting impact across their community, they need to be intentional about their equity and inclusion practices, both within their organization and with their funding efforts.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Based on our experience, this article will offer an end-to-end event planning checklist, complete with best practices to help set your nonprofit event up for success. Evaluate the success of your nonprofit’s event and make required changes to improve year over year. 6) Market Your Event. Learn From Your Previous Events.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Our amazing panelists, some of New York’s most prominent nonprofit and corporate board members, had lots of practical and actionable advice for those of us who want to truly #bethechange. Sometimes an existential challenge can lead to a great opportunity to re-evaluate how best to deliver services. Show Them What you Got.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. Grantee evaluation is a perennial hot topic in the foundation world, nonprofit evaluation is a lucrative industry in universities, and there is a whole high tech industry emerging to rate charities online led by Charity Navigator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. It always helps me improve practice. It takes practice to do well, but it definitely improves the learning experience for participants. Evaluation. No wonder I am still tired!

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

This report serves as a practical guide for two critical disciplines in one publication: futures and foresight. It is intended to spark collaborative visioning, planning, action, and reflection as we all work to ensure a bright future for all children. The state of diversity in the U.S. nonprofit sector by Candid. Kellogg Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

They think about the network structure, evaluation, communication, training, opportunities, and reflection. Maybe this conversations could take place on an existing community of practice ( Iscale ). Are you practicing network weaving skills in your nonprofit or network? What are you learning about network weaving?

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

In this guide, we’ll cover 20 best practices to help you create an effective online donation page that drives more online fundraising revenue for your nonprofit. These best practices fall into the following categories: Optimizing your donation page design. Maximizing online donations. Let’s get started.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

In this article, we’ll provide some guidance to those who are ready to move beyond the board statement or public equity pledge to actively and intentionally implement Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) practices and strategies into their consultant search process. . How to begin incorporating the JEDI approach into your search.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Reflecting on “Make It Your Own&# « A. Fine Blog – "The Case Foundation has just released an evaluation of their innovative “Make It Your Own&# program. Below is a list of networks, tools, and best practices that will help steer you in the right direction."

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

Everyone will be practicing these skills together. Ensure a long-term commitment to the process by Incorporating EI into your organization’s values and performance evaluations. Provide recognition and compensation that reflect its importance. Ask questions that invite self-evaluation. Be public about your priorities.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Letting grantees lead: What we’re learning from the BUILD evaluation. The Power of Dialogue about Nonprofit Data and Evaluation. Joint Statement of Associations Advancing Equitable Evaluation Practices. Evaluating a Culture. Justice over greatness: A new year’s reflection. Here are 6 ways it could go.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Practice Critical Thinking The Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory can perform 10.51 Applying reflection, reasoning, and individual experience to problem-solving is not part of the Summit supercomputer program, but it is an approach that is invaluable in making advantageous business decisions.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. And are you asking them in the right way?

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The final rule is part of the FTC’s ongoing review of its 1973 Negative Option Rule, which agency officials said is being modernized to combat unfair or deceptive practices related to subscriptions, memberships, and other recurring-payment programs in an increasingly digital economy. and invites them to put the money spent here to better use.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 19, 2023

Community engagement enables us to shift how we incorporate knowledge of what’s most important throughout this pipeline, from dataset curation to evaluation. Based on this understanding we have created responsible AI evaluation strategies that are effective in recognizing and mitigating biases along multiple dimensions.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Reverse Improvement occurs when leaders fail to pause and evaluate whether technological progress aligns with long-term human development. Self-aware leaders evaluate whether they are engaging with AI as a tool or relying on it as a crutch.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Design a program that reflects the customized service you want to deliver and the quality of outreach you want to produce. Use data to make objective decisions based on site traffic, evaluations, sales, professional development activity, focus groups and/or other types of outreach. They will be representing your organization.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

It also highlights how good practices in governance and fiduciary duties can foster more collaboration, accountability, and effective decision making. The essential elements of a partnership governance model include respect, mission and vision alignment, a nurturing culture, and ongoing evaluation.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. Meanwhile, I’d like to offer my own recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice.

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