.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

Harvard Business Review Analytic Services recently released a report that illustrates the gap between knowing and doing. Data management platforms are constantly improving their user-friendliness, flexibility, and reporting capacity. There are technology tools that can make information and data analytics accessible to everyone.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s a good strategy to include your impact report with your appeal mailing: Dear Charity Clairity, We have started mailing quarterly impact reports to those midlevel and major donors who aren’t emailable, and emailing otherwise.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

" Emergency Social Data Survey Results – americanredcross's posterous – Check out the slides and data from the American Red Cross's survey on Emergency Social Data! Below, a selection of writers and experts offer their opinion." " Thanks to Joe Solomon (@engagejoe) for the link!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To help answer these questions, here are eight easy ways you can demonstrate impact and focus your strategic decision-making: Evaluate how many hours and how many times your volunteers contributed to get a true read on engagement over their lifetime with your organization—or within specific opportunities.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

According to the Urban Institute’s latest report on the nonprofit sector, fully one third of U.S. According to a free new report by Idealware , they’d actually like to know themselves. Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding.

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 18, 2023

Volunteer engagement surveys are an invaluable tool for nonprofits. Explore how these surveys can provide crucial insights, elevate the experience for volunteers, and optimize processes, to help nonprofits better achieve their mission. Conducting a satisfaction survey can help a nonprofit identify areas where improvements can be made.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Only 31% of the working population reported feeling engaged in their employment. 92% of CEOs say their organization is empathetic, while only 72% of employees report they work for empathetic employers. 92% of CEOs say their organization is empathetic, while only 72% of employees report they work for empathetic employers.

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Charity Village

AUGUST 31, 2022

The Ontario Nonprofit Network in collaboration with l’Assemblée de la Francophonie de l’Ontario (l’AFO), conducted a sector survey to evaluate the health of nonprofits in Ontario. The study evaluated the state of the nonprofits’ financial health, staffing and volunteers, and general operations. Key […].

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

Most nonprofits conduct some kind of program evaluation, whether it’s simply keeping track of how many people have been directly helped by an organization’s services or complex multi-year studies of a program’s effects on the larger community. So what did we find? Proactive Data Gathering.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2011

You report on exactly how many people you served, where, when, and how. So, how do you move beyond reporting on activities and outputs? an effective results-oriented program evaluation system? As you implement the evaluation, discuss the findings with them and together create meaning from the data. posted by. Click here!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

This person will take the helm on laying out tasks in a sequence, informing other staff of their roles and assignments, and providing assistance to people as they complete their parts of the evaluation. If you’re just looking to get your feet wet with a quick survey, one of the many free or low cost online tools will do the trick.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Salesforce.org is excited to announce the release of the Salesforce.org Community Impact Report 2022. In our fifth annual report, we highlight how our customers are using the resources provided by Salesforce.org and our partners to create and amplify their social impact. See the FY22 Stakeholder Impact Report for details.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You can do this by implementing mid-course check-ins or post-course evaluations. Tracking Long-Term Impact True success for your learning programs can be found by evaluating their long-term impact. Did learners who completed your program experience career advancement or increased job performance?

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Back in 2017, McKenzie reported that: “By 2030, 75 million to 375 million workers (3 to 14 percent of the global workforce) will need to switch occupational categories. Survey the group and, as much as possible, interview individuals. An AI whose vocabulary is limited to customer service platitudes doesn’t seem so threatening.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. In previous surveys, the Pew Internet Project had asked internet users whether they "used Twitter or another service to share updates about yourself or to see updates about others? ""

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

I''m so excited to have these regular opportunities to report out from NTEN, share udpates about our work, and hear directly from all of you. Below is a full report from topics covered on the Town Hall call and questions raised from participants. Please take the survey today and promote to your network ! We''re looking for you.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

This vast library contains more than 34,000 freely available philanthropic resources authored by organizations in our sector—including reports, case studies, surveys, toolkits, and more. The report also advocates that the sector embraces three main tenets: be an enabler, walk the talk, and think about and create the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

This is the question we’re asking arts groups across the country this month, refreshing our national landmark survey of 2011. The survey is currently in the field but initial responses show broad adoption and rising confidence and sophisticated use of online and social tools. How Strong Is Your Social Net? Guest Post by Mary Trudel.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. There are different approaches to evaluating a program. As part of a.

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Research Culture Evaluation Arizona 82

Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Today, Salesforce.org is excited to announce the release of the Salesforce.org Community Impact Report 2021. Our fourth annual report shows how our customers are using the resources Salesforce.org provides to create and increase their social impact. The report can now be more easily accessed from anywhere. What’s New For 2021?

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2013

NTEN''s Communities of Impact recently conducted a small survey (n=69) of nonprofit professionals asking how their organizations are engaging with data. We are now in the process of conducting follow-up surveys, and a few interesting insights have begun to emerge. The number one reported data storage tool was Excel.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

One of the findings that stood out to us: Only 40% of respondents reported that their organization has some type of formal technology plan. And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs."

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

We need a bit of time to take a step back, evaluate what worked and didn’t work, and realize we’re not in a “new normal” but an “interim normal.” A new survey from McKinsey finds responses to the Covid-19 pandemic sped business adoption of digital technologies by several years—and many of these changes will likely be here for the long haul.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

NTEN – Here's a great run-down from Amy Luckey of the process to use in exploring and evaluating your organization's impact. .’ I say everybody can be great because everybody can Twive!”" ”" What Are We Accomplishing and How Do We Know? Would love to hear your thoughts.

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Hunger Web America Case Study 120

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Articles, reports, podcasts, and videos: The Problems With Philanthropy, and What We Can Do to Fix Them. Letting grantees lead: What we’re learning from the BUILD evaluation. Center for Effective Philanthropy: Grantee and Applicant Perception Reports. The Power of Dialogue about Nonprofit Data and Evaluation.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

The purpose of this post is to share the results of an interesting survey from the beginning of the event, as well as the great attendee follow-up Q&A. We opened with a short audience survey about nonprofit data management. We were once asked to evaluate new technology options for a client. Plan those activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

I went to the Learning in Public session expecting to hear that the process the Packard Foundation used to evaluate their capacity building work was wildly successful. In true GEO style, Kathy Reich and Jared Raynor, the evaluator from TCC Group shared what worked and what didn’t…and what they plan to do in the future.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 4, 2022

To gain further perspective on which goals your organization should set, you’ll need to evaluate the type of members you hope to recruit. Survey your members to understand their volunteer motivations and connect them to the best volunteer or advocacy options. . How do you determine who is your ideal member? Learn more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

One of the simplest ways to practice continuous improvement is to incorporate a process evaluation. And, of course, your evaluation will also include looking at the data from surveys and interviews with participants after the event. Survey participants and incorporate their feedback. The Process Steps in Detail.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. 1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2014

The project published the Personal Data for the Public Good and has recently received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore the issues identified in the report. A variety of new approaches to informed consent are being evaluated and this area is ripe for guidance to assure optimal outcomes for all stakeholders.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 13, 2024

According to the organization’s annual report for 2018 – the first year girls were accepted into the organization – the “BSA Family” consisted of slightly more than 1.23 As of its 2023 annual report, participation had dropped to 574,365 Cub Scouts and 392,275 “Scouts BSA.” Financial details of the arrangement were not available.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

As someone who works with nonprofits to build capacity in technology, one always hopes for transformational versus transactional results. Paul’s post unpacks some of the findings from the evaluation, but also raises some important questions about doing transformational capacity building. What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

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. This section takes you through the basics of analyzing and finding patterns in survey data. Meaning Making.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with the organization’s case for support, annual reports, theory of change, and other collateral materials. Can you survey nonrenewing donors to see why they didn’t renew? Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. For example, could people who donate every year be cultivated for a larger or monthly gift?

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We suggest that you have a conversation and not send a survey. These will support your business case by aligning with your goals: Consistent, trusted data with standard interactive reports using a common language that employees throughout your organization easily understand – all in a secure data warehouse.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership. The self-evaluation survey is free and it''s the first step in the program. A full reporting on your results costs $79. Also free is a summary analysis of your results.

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